Vocab
Vocab
Vocab
Vocab
Vocab
100
Which poetic device gives human qualities or characteristics to animals or objects.
Personification
100
What is a pattern of words that contain similar sounds at the end of a line.
Rhyme
100
What is this is an example of: BOOM!
Onomatopoeia
100
What is the repetition of initial consonant sounds.
Alliteration
100
Which poetic device compares two things using "like" or "as?"
Simile
200
Language that evokes sensory feelings is what?
Imagery
200
What is this an example of: bark:tree::skin:human
Analogy
200
What is an implied or indirect reference to a person, event, thing, or to another text?
An Allusion
200
Which poetic device is an inference that if two things agree in some ways, they will probably agree in others.
Analogy
200
What is metaphor?
Comparing two things without using "like" or "as."
300
Define Free Verse
A kind of poetry that has no set pattern, rhythm, or rhyme.
300
Define Stanza.
A group of poetic verses with a similar rhyme scheme and meter as rest of poem.
300
Which poetic device is being used: "Did u hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete Proving Nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk"
Personification
300
Define Symbol.
An object or action that means more than its literal meaning.
300
What poetic device is being used: "A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit."
Simile
400
Identify the poetic device: At 6am the alarm clock sprang to life.
Personification
400
Name the poetic device: "When we came to Hustler Hill, he said that the mare was tired, so we all got down and walked, as our good manners required."
Rhyme
400
Name the device: "A child can be a seed that grows to shade a seedy old man"
Metaphor
400
Which poetic device is being used: The sky is slate and the world is a cold and slushy place"
Onomatopoeia
400
Name the poetic device: "Crazy Horse wandered the halls, found the surface of the moon, Judy Garland and her red shoes, a stuff horse named Comanche"
Allusion
500
Name the Poetic Device: "Let yourself curl up: a fleshy foetal figure cupped about its own vibrant soul."
Alliteration
500
Name the poetic device: "I loved my friend. He went away from me. There's nothing more to say. The poem ends, Soft as it began - I loved my friend."
Free Verse
500
Why would an author use Stanza in a poem?
To separate ideas into meaningful sections and put emphasis on important ideas.
500
Why would an author use Imagery in a poem?
Allows the reader to visualize or feel the action of the poem to better understand important moments and themes.
500
Why would an author choose to use personification?
Brings an important idea from the poem to life so that the reader can better grasp the message.
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