The Sound of Words
This literary device has several sub-types, which can include:
close, slant, near, double, etc.
Rhyme
This literary device is a comparison using the words "like" or "as".
Simile
Identify the type of imagery in these lines:
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host of golden Daffodils;
Beside the Lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Visual imagery
Name the rhyme scheme in these lines:
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
ABAB Rhyme Scheme
This literary device refers to words that sound like their meaings.
Onomatopoeia
Identify the literary device in the following line(s):
"“Hope” is the thing with feathers"
Metaphor
Identify the literary device in the following lines:
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Allusion
The name for groupings of lines in a poem.
Stanza
Identify the literary device in this phrase:
"hickory dickory dock; the mouse ran up the clock"
Rhyme
(or assonance)
Identify the literary device in the following phrase:
"My mother is the sunshine after the storm"
Metaphor
Identify the literary device in these lines:
“And I will love thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.
Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:”
Hyperbole
A question asked solely for effect, which does not require an answer.
Rhetorical Question
This literary device refers to "A discordant series of harsh, unpleasant sounds helps to convey disorder. This is often furthered by the combined effect of meaning and the difficulty of pronunciation."
Cacophony
Identify the literary device in the following lines:
"O brawling love! O loving hate!"
Oxymoron
This literary device is "An attempt to fuse different senses by describing one kind of sense impression in words normally used to describe another."
Synesthesia
This term refers to a sentence or clause continuing across several lines of poetry.
Enjambment
Identify the literary device in this phrase:
"Or deeper a day or dance or doom bestride"
Alliteration
Identify the literary device in the following line:
“O Rose, thou art sick!”
Personification
Identify the literary device in these lines:
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this
Oxymoron
Iambic pentameter