Sound Devices
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Not A Device
100
A sound effect word
What is onomatopoeia?
100
A comparison between two dissimilar things WITHOUT using like, as, or than.
What is metaphor?
100
Language/words that appeal to the senses
What is imagery?
100
The pattern of end rhymes
What is rhyme scheme?
100
A poem in honor of someone or something
What is an ode?
200
Repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
What is alliteration?
200
A comparison between two dissimilar things using like, as, or than.
What is a simile?
200
The contrast between expectation and reality
What is irony?
200
A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is rhythm?
200
A poem that has a formal structure of 14 lines and a specific rhyme scheme
What is a sonnet?
300
The repetition of sounds in words close together in a poem
What is rhyme?
300
Giving human characteristics to non-human things
What is personification?
300
A play on the multiple meanings of words
What is a pun?
300
The attitude the poet takes toward the audience, subject or character
What is tone?
300
A poem that tells a story
What is narrative poem?
400
Specific words or phrases are repeated two or more times throughout a poem.
What is repetition?
400
An extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
400
The implied emotional meaning of a word, not just the exact meaning.
What is connotation?
400
The overall emotion created in the reader; the emotional atmosphere
What is mood?
400
The voice talking in the poem, not necessarily the author/poet
What is a speaker?
500
Repetition of vowel sounds throughout a line of poetry.
What is assonance?
500
a person, place, object, or action that stands for something beyond itself
What is symbolism?
500
A reference to a statement, person, place or event
What is allusion?
500
In a poem, a group of lines that forms a single unit
What is stanza?
500
A poem without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythm, with sounds of everyday speech.
What is free verse?
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