Poetry Flashcards
1
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Assonance
A
Congruence of vowels “blind eyes”
2
Q
Consonance
A
Congruence of consonants “buzzing beez”
3
Q
Onomatopoea
A
use of words imitating sounds “buzz, zip”
4
Q
Archaism
A
use of old words
5
Q
Epiphora
A
repeating of same word at end of each line
6
Q
Parallelism
A
Repitition of the clauses in the same phrases “easy come, easy go”
7
Q
Chiasmus
A
cross writing “fair is foul and foul is fair”
8
Q
Polysyndeton
A
Use of many conjunctions “and nice and sweet and fair
9
Q
Ellipsis
A
Omission of a word phrase “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”
10
Q
Inversion
A
Reverse of normal word order
