Poetic Devices
An image evoking sound.
What is an auditory image?
This novel features George Shelby.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This type of language makes its point in an indirect or non-literal way.
What is figurative language?
"Good fences make good neighbours."
What is "Mending Wall"?
He wrote "I Hear America Singing."
Who is Walt Whitman?
The repetititon of consonant or vowel sounds at the beginning of two words in close proximity.
What is alliteration?
Faith is from this short story.
What is "Young Goodman Brown"?
A comparison made through the use of words such as "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
"Her voice is full of money,"
What is The Great Gatsby?
She wrote, "It Sifts from Leaden Sieves."
Who is Emily Dickinson?
The use of words that sound like the thing they describe.
What is onomatopoeia?
The shoemaker is in this poem.
What is "I Hear America Singing"?
The attribution of human qualities to an object, animal, or concept.
What is personification?
“Mas’r, if you mean to kill me, kill me; but, as to my raising my hand agin any one here, I never shall,—I’ll die first!”
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
A stanza consisting of two lines.
What is a couplet?
Elisa Allen is from this piece of literature.
What is "The Chrysanthemums"?
An object that has meaning in itself but also has a deeper, more abstract meaning within the context of a work of literature.
What is a symbol?
“My aunt was inside / what seemed like a long time / and while I waited I read / the National Geographic…”
What is "In The Waiting Room"?
He wrote "Young Goodman Brown."
Who is Nathaniel Hawthorne?
Repetition of the same suntactic structure with the terms reverses; inverted parallelism.
What is chiasmus?
The protagonist in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."
Who is Peyton Farquhar?
This is a form of literature that exposes and condemns human vices by using humor or ridicule.
What is satire?
“I have always heard him deal with death. / I have always heard the shout, the volley. / I have closed my heart-ears late and early. / And I have killed him ever.”
What is "The Boy Died in My Alley"?
He wrote "The Negro Speaks of Rivers."
Who is Langston Hughes?