Poet's tool box

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

Comparison stating something is something it is not

Question 2

Simile

Answer 2

Comparison using “like” or “as”

Question 3

Onomatopoeia

Answer 3

Words sounds like actual sound

Question 4

Title

Answer 4

First indication to the reader of what the poem will be about

Question 5

Rhyme

Answer 5

Hope, cope

Question 6

Slant Rhyme

Answer 6

Fine, Time

Question 7

Repetition

Answer 7

Something that appears more than once

Question 8

Juxtaposition

Answer 8

Two or more words put together for effect (grizzly chandeliers)

Question 9

Alliteration

Answer 9

Repetition of initial consonant

Question 10

Assonance

Answer 10

Repetition of vowels (purple hurdles)

Question 11

Consonance

Answer 11

Repetition of internal consonants (brushed, hashed)

Question 12

Personification

Answer 12

Giving a human trait to non-human things

Question 13

Anthromorphism

Answer 13

Making something human

Question 14

Enjambment

Answer 14

A poetic line that continues to the next line without a punctuation or other break

Question 15

Caesura

Answer 15

A pause in the middle of a line (he waited)

Question 16

Diction

Answer 16

Word choice

Question 17

Syntax

Answer 17

Word order

Question 18

Symbol

Answer 18

Something that stands for something else

Question 19

Punctuation

Answer 19

The use or absence of punctuation is worth noting

Question 20

Elegy

Answer 20

A kind of poem that is a reflection or lament for death or the dead