Terms 1

A stylistic device in which a number of words having same the same first consonant sound occur close together in series is called

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Paradox

When letters of a word or phrase are rearranged in such a way that a new word or form is formed it is called

• Anapest

• Pathetic Fallacy

• Anagram

• Anaphora

“Men sell the wedding bells” is the example of 

• Alliteration

• Consonance

• Paradox

• Assonance

A form of poetry in narrative usually telling a story used in dance songs is called 

• Sonnet

• Balled

• Lyric

• Ode

A literary device defined as un- rhyming verse written in iambic pentameter is termed as 

• Free Verse

• Rhymed Verse

• Open Verse

• Blank Verse

A pair of lines rhymed in iambic meter is called 

• Conceit

• Heroic Couplet

• Couplet

• Oxymoron

A song written in the honor of someone deceased is called 

• Lyric

• Ode

• Elegy

• Balled

A thought, sense, phrase or clause in a line of poetry that does not come to an end at the line break but moves over to the next line is termed as 

• Enjambment

• Epistle

• Elision

• Ellipsis

A part of main story occurring after the climax and revealing the fates of the characters is called 

• Prologue

• Monologue

• Dialogue

• Epilogue

A speech or written tribute to a deceased person is termed as 

• Lyric

• Eulogy

• Elegy

• Obituary