Poetic Techniques Quiz

the repetition of

the same or similar consonant

sounds in words that are close

together

• anaphora

• allusion

• alliteration

• asyndeton

"I hold with those who favor fire" - Robert Frost

• alliteration

• allusion

• anaphora

• internal rhyme

When a writer or speaker refers to something from history or literature and expects her audience to understand to what she is referring. Most commonly (in Western literature/art/culture) are to: the Bible, Shakespeare, Greek/Roman Mythology.

• allusion

• alliteration

• anaphora

• apostrophe

A figure of speech that uses incredible exaggeration, or overstatement, for effect.

• metaphor

• simile

• hype

• hyperbole

• hyphy

A figure of speech that expresses an idea through the image of another object. Suggest the essence of the first object by identifying it with certain qualities of the second object.

• metaphor

• simile

• metonymy

• allusion

A comparison, usually using "like" or "as,” of two essentially dissimilar things.

• metaphor

• juxtaposition

• simile

• oxymoron

A figure of speech that gives human qualities to abstract ideas, animals, and inanimate objects.

• hyperbole

• personification

• figurative language

• imagery

A brief poem written to be inscribed on a gravestone.

• epigraph

• epitaph

• eulogy

• last rites

the rhyme occurs at the end of the verse lines

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

• slant rhyme

• half rhyme

the rhyme occurs within a line of verse

• internal rhyme

• end rhyme

• slant rhyme

• half rhyme