Poetic Devices One
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is Alliteration?
Giving an inanimate object human characteristics.
What is personification?
Words that imitate a sound.
What is Onomatopoeia?
An exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
An example of this poetic device is:
Her smile was as bright as the sun.
What is a simile?
What form of figurative language is the poem using?
Mr. Sun is elated
and bright
He never yells
and does not fight.
What is personification?
One row of words in a poem.
What is a line?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
Descriptions that appeal to your imagination or senses.
What is Imagery or sensory details?
An example of this poetic device is:
The flowers danced wildly in the wind.
What is personification?
Similar sounds at the ends of words or lines.
What is rhyme?
An example of this poetic device is:
I'm so hungry I could eat a hundred pizzas.
What is a hyperbole.
An example of this poetic device is:
POW, BANG, CRASH
What is Onomatopoeia?
A comparison not using like or as!
What is a Metaphor?
Poetry that does not have a rhyme scheme or pattern is called ___________ verse.
What is free verse?
An example of this "rockets rushing in a race."
What is alliteration?
An example of this is "its raining cats and dogs."
What is an idiom?
What two types of figurative language are used in the line:
Austin went "achoo" in an audience.
What is alliteration and onomatopeia?
The attitude or feeling of a piece of writing.
What is the tone?
A common expression in which the words mean something different than their literal meaning.
What is an idiom?
Point of view told by an outside narrator, not in the story. Uses he, she, it, they, them.
What is third person point of view?
A grouped set of lines within a poem.
What is a Stanza?
Repeating a word in a poetic line/poem used to show importance.
What is Repetition?
When the words at the ends of lines have the same final consonant sound.
What is a slant rhyme?
The point of view told by the character in the story. Uses I, me, my, us or we.
What is first person point of view?
The author of a poem.
What is a poet?
Name the rhyme scheme of this poem (use letters):
The world is red,
It's all in my head.
I can't seem to find,
Where is my mind.
What is ABAB?
Two lines of a poem that have the same ending sound (that rhyme).
What is a Couplet?
The narrator of a poem.
What is the speaker?
What types of figurative language and/or poetic devices are used in the poem: (there are 3)
A piece of sky
broke off and fell
Through the crack in the ceiling
Right into my soup
Delicious, Delicious
(A bit like plaster)
But so delicious, goodness sake--
What are metaphor, simile, and repetition?