CLEP Humanities › Understanding Terminology That Describes Classical Poetry
A poem that is a lamentation for the dead is called __________.
an elegy
an epic
a haiku
a limerick
an allegory
The poetic technique known as alliteration refers to __________.
the repetitive use of words with the same initial sound or syllable
an internal rhyme inside of a sentence
the use of homonyms to create wordplay
the sequential use of each letter of the alphabet as the first letter of a word
an poetic structure in which the number of syllables in each line of a poem gradually increase