LITERARY TERMS FOR REVIEW

In poetry, repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of a lin

• anaphora

• allusion

• simile

• apostrophe

Identify the literary term: Speaking directly to something inanimate or not present

• anaphora

• simile

• paradox

• apostrophe

Identify the literary term: Two consecutive lines of rhyming poetry

• couplet

• iambic pentameter

• blank verse

• internal rhyme

Identify the literary term:

There is no punctuation at the end of a line, so the grammatical construction continues to the next line

• paradox

• enjambment

• anaphora

• alliteration

Identify the literary term: –

a comparison between two unlike things that continues through several lines of poetry or several

sentences of prose

• extended metaphor

• analogy

• enjambment

• paradox

Identify the literary term:

using an object to represent something closely associated with it

• metonymy

• allusion

• apostrophe

• anaphora

Identify the literary term:When words are placed in an unusual grammatical order

• enjambment

• paradox

• inversion

• anaphora

Identify the literary term: a statement or situation that seems contradictory but is in some way actually true

• paradox

• anaphora

• inversion

• enjambment

Identify the literary term: the voice that tells the story

• narrator

• speaker

• metonymy

• allusion

Identify the literary term in the following example: The stars were diamonds sparkling in the night sky.

• simile

• metaphor

• allusion

• anaphora