English Poetry test

Alliteration

Repeated constonant sounds at begining of words placed near eachother

Assonance

Repeated vowel sounds in words placed near each other

Cacophony

A disorderly series of harsh and unpleasant sounds that help to convey disorder

Euphony

A series of musicallypleasant sounds conveying harmony and beuty

Onomatopoeia

Words that sound like their emanings

Repetition

The purposeful re-use of words and phrases

Rhyme

Words whose endings sound alike

Allusion

A referance to a person, historical event, work of art, or Biblical/mythological situation or charecter.

Ambiguity

A word or phrase that can mean more than one thing

Hyperbole

An outrageous exageration used for effect

Irony

A contradictory statement or situation to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true

Metaphor

A direct comparison between two things

Oxymoron

A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other

Personification

Giving human charecteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea.

Simile

A direct comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”.

Symbol

An ordinary object, event, animal, or person which we have attached meaning and significance.