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Literary Terms, Alliteration - Consonance
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | When words that are close together start with the same sound. |
| Anadiplosis | When one repeats the concluding element of one phrase or clause as the introductory element of the next phrase or clause. |
| Anaphora | Repetition of the same introductory elements for several adjacent phrases or clauses. |
| Antithesis | Laying out a contrast in grammatically balanced form. |
| Assonance | When words that are close together share the same vowel sounds. |
| Asyndeton | Omitting a conjunction at the end of a list when it should be grammatically necessary. |
| Polysyndeton | Using more conjunctions than are grammatically necessary. |
| Caesura | A pause in a line of poetry, caused by punctuation, empty space, or natural speaking rhythms. |
| Enjambment | When a writer uses no punctuation at a line break. In these cases, the oral reader does not pause, but reads straight through. |
| Chiasmus | When a writer mentions and repeats two ideas, but reverses the order the second time around, often with a twist in meaning. |
| Consonance | When several words in proximity use the same finial consonant sounds, but different vowel sounds. |
| Apostrophe | When the poet addresses an absent person, a thing, or an abstract idea as if it were there. |
| Conceit | An elaborate extended metaphor, usually within a poem, surprisingly comparing or equating two highly dissimilar things. |