Lit Terms Quiz 3

a comparison of 2 unlikely things that is drawn out within a piece of literature

• caesura
• caricature
• couplet
• conceit

a metrical foot in poetry that consists of one long stressed syllables followed by two unstressed syllables  /uu/uu/uu/

• dactylic
• spondaic
• iambic
• anapestic

what is suggested by a word, apart from what it explicitly describes, often referred to as the implied meaning of a word

• annotation
• connotation
• denotation
• consonance

two rhyming lines of iambic pentameter that together present a single idea or connection

• consonance
• dactylic
• couplet
• consonance

the repetition of a sequence of two or more consonants, but with a change in the intervening vowels, such as: pitter-patter, pish-posh, clinging and clanging

• alliteration
• connotation
• assonance
• consonance