Review of Poetry for Final exam

repetition of a vowel sound in two or more words in close proximity

• alliteration

• consonance

• assonance

• anahora

An Italian sonnet with an octave and sestet

• Shakesperean

• English

• Petrarchan

a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases

• anaphora

• onomatopoeia

• motif

• chiasmus

rhetorical device where normally unassociated words are placed next to each other

• juxtaposition

• motif

• paradox

• pun

intentional overuse of conjunctions

• motif

• anaphora

• assonance

• polysyndeton

repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines

• paradox

• anaphora

• motif

• alliteration

AABBA - the pattern of rhyme in a poem

• rhyme scheme

• quatrain

• volta

• iambic pentameter

dramatic shift or turn in a poem

• pun

• volta

• paradox

• chiasmus

a play on words; soul/sole; son/sun

• octave

• volta

• oxymoron

• pun

a six-line stanza

• octave

• sestet

• couplet

• quatrain