Poetry - Techniques

Question 1

repetition

Answer 1

the action of repeating something that has already been said or written

Question 2

assonance

Answer 2

the repetition of vowel sounds

Question 3

irony

Answer 3

the expression of ones meaning by using language that usually signifies the opposite

Question 4

consonance

Answer 4

the repetition of consonant sounds in the same line

Question 5

caesura

Answer 5

a pause in the middle of a line of poetry

Question 6

rhetorical question

Answer 6

a question that is not to revive an answer

Question 7

contrast

Answer 7

to compare (two different people or things) to show how they are different

Question 8

metaphor

Answer 8

a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable

Question 9

anaphora

Answer 9

a figure of speech in which words repeat at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases or sentences

Question 10

enjambment

Answer 10

the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet or stanza

Question 11

alliteration

Answer 11

the occurrence of the same letter sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

Question 12

simile

Answer 12

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind

Question 13

allusion

Answer 13

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference

Question 14

hyperbole

Answer 14

exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally