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The repetition of front letters:
a) consonance
b) alliteration
c) assonance
d) allusion

A reference to another author's piece of writing:
a) conclusion
b) reclusion
c) allusion
d) illusion

repetition of identical vowel sounds within words:
a) ballad
b) assonance
c) blank verse
d) meter

narrative poem of quatrains:
a) lyric
b) limerick
c) cinquain
d) ballad

unrhymed iambic pentameter:
a) blank verse
b) free verse
c) terse verse
d) apostrophe

repetition of consonants within words:
a) assonance
b) rhythm
c) consonance
d) meter

a measured combination of heavy and light stresses:
a) foot
b) rhyme
c) hyperbole
d) ballad

great exaggeration for the sake of effect:
a) paradox
b) irony
c) hyperbole
d) personification

a comparison between 2 unlike things without using like or as:
a) metaphor
b) simile
c) octave
d) personification

repeated series of words in response to the main verse:
a) sonnet
b) refrain
c) couplet
d) anapest

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