Spring Break Vocab

Question 0

Assonance

Answer 0

Repetition of vowel sounds in a series of words

CRY SIDE TRY LIE

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Beginning several consecutive words w/ the same sound

SHE SELLS SEASHELLS BY THE SEASHORE.

Question 2

Consonance

Answer 2

Repetition of a consonant sound in a series of words

SHE SELLS SEASHELLS BY THE SEASHORE

Question 3

Dirge

Answer 3

A funeral song

Question 4

Elegy

Answer 4

A funeral poem

Question 5

Enjambment

Answer 5

The running over of a sentence from one line of the verse to the next

Question 6

Iamb

Answer 6

A foot of poetry over the accent of the second syllable

LIKE AS THE WAVES MAKE TOWARDS THE PEBBLE SHORE

Question 7

Antithesis

Answer 7

A direct juxtaposition of structurally parallel words, phrases or clauses
SINK OR SWIM

Question 8

Metonymy

Answer 8

The name of one thing is applied to another that is closely associated with
I LOVE SHAKESPEARE

Question 9

Trochee

Answer 9

A foot of poetry with the accent on the first syllable

QUOTH THE RAVEN EVERMORE

Question 10

Synecdoche

Answer 10

1) a part to signify the whole 
"ALL HANDS ON DECK"
2) the whole represents a part
"CANADA PLAYED THE US IN HOCKEY"
3) the container represents the thing being contained 
"THE POT IS BOILING"
4) the material represent the thing itself 
"THR QUATERBACK TOSSED THE PIGSKIN"