Poetic devices
Figurative Meaning
Structure & Sound
100

It is the poetic device that repeats the same consonant sound at the beginning of nearby words (example: "wild and woolly").

What is Alliteration

100

It is the device used in this example, "She is a tulip in a field of daisies."

What is a Metaphor

100

The poetic device being used, light/bright,  devour/hour, insane/membrain

What is rhyme

200

It is the poetic device that compares two unlike things using "like" or "as" (example: "as brave as a lion") 

What is a Simile

200

It is the device that references another person, place, event, or text indirectly (often cultural or literary)- example = She is my Juliet

What is Allusion

200

This specific form of repetition repeats initial consonant sounds to heighten musicality or focus attention "Five freaky females finding sales at retail"

What is Alliteration

300

It is the device that gives human traits to nonhuman things (example: "the wind whispered )

What is Personification

300

The title "25" represents Rod Wave's age and his experiences of repeating the same cycle of pain and struggle in his life.  This use of images and experiences to stand for more than itself fits this poetic device.

What is Symbolism?

400

It is the term that describes a group of lines in a poem, often functioning like a paragraph in prose

What is a Stanza

400

This poetic device can enhance mood by making emotions or environments feel alive and relatable, which deepens emotional impact by attaching words or phrases that are human-like qualities to nonhuman things.

What is personification

500

It is the style of a poem that has no Rhyme or Rhythm

What is Free Verse

500

The first uses "like" or "as", whereas the second comparison states it as it directly "Is" something

What is the difference between a Simile and Metaphor