Pleonasm
I know that you will come.
(syntactic)I am eating a tuna fish burger. (semantic)
Pathos
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor. Shall be lifted-nevermore!
Anadiplosis
When I give, I give myself.
Hyperbole
Cornell gave us 5000 terms on this poetry quiz.
Metonymy
Mariners are participating in the student fundraiser.
Cadence
Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered, weak and weary.
Personification
This quiz killed me.
Chiasmus
You forget what you want to remember, and remember what you want to forget.
Onomatopoeia
My brother can burp the alphabet.
Hyperbaton
They walk on separate paths. ? On separate paths, they walk.
Alliteration
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Imagery
There a dream I never thought would come to pass.
Simile
The man was as chubby as pooh bear.
Paradox
You can save money by spending it.
Synecdoche
At the Olympics, you will hear that the United States won a gold medal in an event
Stream of Consciousness
I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another.
Synesthesia
He wore a loud shirt.
Anaphora
If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?
Juxtaposition
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
Puns
A skunk fell in the river and stank to the bottom.
Enjambment
A thing of beauty is a joy forever;Its loveliness increases; it will neverPass into nothingness but still will keepA bower quiet for us, and asleepFull of sweet dreams, and health and quiet breathing.
End stopping
Then say not man’s imperfect, Heav’n in fault;Say rather, man’s as perfect as he ought:His knowledge measur’d to his state and place, Hie time a moment, and a point his space.
Countee Cullen
One of the first of the Harlem Renaissance writers, he wrote the famous poem, Heritage.
Alain Locke
He is the father figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
Persona
A politician wants to come off to voters as a regular, nice guy who cares about normal people.
Metaphor
He drowned in a sea of grief.
Assonance and Consonance
Twinkling twilight meets twice at the edge of night.Norm, the worm, took the garden by a storm this morn.
Syllepsis
Peace.
Live in it or rest in it.
Garveyism
The idea of blacks going back to Africa instead of integrating with the white community.
Zionism
Movement to establish a Jewish state in land of Israel.
Pan-africanism
Wanted Africans to return to Africa to avoid discrimination
