Terms A-B

Question 0

A reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work.

Answer 0

Allusion

Question 1

The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally the beginnings of words.

Ex: Gnus never know pnemonia.

Answer 1

Alliteration

Question 2

A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas. A balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness.

Ex: Man proposes, God disposes

Answer 2

Antithesis

Question 3

A figure of speech in which someone (usually, but not always absent), some abstract auality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though predent.

ex: Papa Above!/Regard a Mouse.

Answer 3

Apostrophe

Question 4

The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.

ex: the “a” sound in laid, waste, and slain

Answer 4

Assonance

Question 5

A four-lime stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four.

Answer 5

Ballad meter

Question 6

Unrhymed iambic pentamenter. Used in Milton’s Paradise Lost, and well as Shakespearean plays.

Answer 6

Blank verse