Unit 2 terms

Question 1

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

Answer 1

Alliteration

Question 2

A rhetorical device that uses syntactical parallelism in two adjacent phrases or clauses to emphasize their Contrasting meanings

Answer 2

Antithesis

Question 3

The repetition of words or phrases at the beginning of lines of poetry or grammatical units

Answer 3

Anaphora

Question 4

The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a series of words

Answer 4

Assonance

Question 5

A pause in the middle of a line of poetry usually indicated by a mark of punctuation.

Answer 5

Caesura

Question 6

The repetition of terminal consonant sounds

Answer 6

Consonance

Question 7

A poetic device in which lines flow past the end of one verse line and into the next with no punctuation at the end of the first verse line

Answer 7

Enjambment

Question 8

Word pairs that are spelled alike but pronounced differently

Answer 8

Eye rhyme

Question 9

Poetry with no set meter or rhyme

Answer 9

Free verse

Question 10

Rhyme that occurs between words within a single line of poetry

Answer 10

Internal rhyme

Question 11

Agreement of sounds from the last stressed vowel sound onward with a difference in the immediately preceding consonant sounds

Answer 11

Perfect rhyme

Question 12

A rhyme between two words with similar but slightly mismatched sounds

Answer 12

Slant rhyme

Question 13

Rhyme that occurs at the ends of corresponding lines of poetry

Answer 13

End rhyme

Question 14

The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

Answer 14

Meter

Question 15

The use of words that sound like what they mean

Answer 15

Onomatopoeia

Question 16

The specific combination of two or three stressed and unstressed syllables that predominately repeats throughout the poems lines

Answer 16

Poetic feet

Question 17

The art of public speaking

Answer 17

Rhetoric

Question 18

A questions asked not to receive information but to achieve an effect

Answer 18

Rhetorical question

Question 19

Two or more words having identical sounds in the last stressed vowel and all of the sounds following that vowel

Answer 19

Rhyme

Question 20

The process of identifying the two major features of meter in a particular poem

Answer 20

Scansion

Question 21

Lines of poetry that end with a natural pause indicated by punctuation

Answer 21

End stopped lines

Question 22

A line ending in which the final syllable is unstressed

Answer 22

Feminine ending

Question 23

A line ending in which the final syllable is stressed

Answer 23

Masculine ending