Toby Waldraff's A-meow-zing Poetry Terms Quiz

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Metonymy

Repetition of words at the beginnings of consecutive lines or phrases

• Alliteration

• Epistrophe

• Superlative

• Anaphora

Repetition of words at the ends of consecutive lines or phrases

• Epistrophe

• Apostrophe

• Preposition

• Caesura

A person, place, thing, or idea

• Verb

• Sibilant alliteration

• Apostrophe

• Noun

In poetry, word choice and phrasing

• Enjambment

• Diction

• Comparative

• Stanza

The highest degree of an adjective or adverb or an exaggerated or hyperbolic expression

• Adverb

• Metonymy

• Superlative

• Cacophony

A line or group of lines set apart structurally from other lines in a poem

• Stanza

• Alliteration

• Couplet

• Caesura

A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse

• Enjambment

• Prose

• Meter

• Allusion

A four-line poetic stanza that often possesses some degree of rhyme

• Allusion

• Synecdoche

• Epistrophe

• Quatrain

When a poetic line moves to the next poetic line without a syntactic break, i.e., without an end-stop.

• Caesura

• Enjambment

• Anaphora

• Allusion