1st Set

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Same letter or sound at the beginning of closely connected words

Peter piper picked

Question 2

Allusion

Answer 2

Indirect reference

Question 3

Anaphora

Answer 3

Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

I LOVE the town, I LOVE the dog, I LOVE the crowd

Question 4

Apostrophe

Answer 4

A figure of speech in which the poet addresses an absent person, an abstract idea or thing

Question 5

Assonance

Answer 5

Repetition of second vowel sound

Try to light the fire

Question 6

Ballad

Answer 6

Poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas

Question 7

Blank verse

Answer 7

Verse without rhyme

Question 8

Caesura

Answer 8

Break between words within a metrical foot

Question 9

Common meter or hymn measure

Answer 9

Poetic meter consisting of 4 lines that alternate between iambic pentameter and trimeter

Question 10

Consonance

Answer 10

Recurrence of similar sounds in close proximity

Question 11

Couplet

Answer 11

Two lines of verse usually in the same meter and joined by a rhythm