Imagery
Sound Devices
Figurative Language
100

Description of how things LOOK.

What is visual imagery?

100

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.

What is alliteration?

100

A comparison using "like" or "as".

What is a simile?

200

Description of how things sound.

What is auditory imagery?

200

The repetition of vowel sounds anywhere in the words.

What is assonance?

200

A comparison that doesn't use "like" or "as".

What is a metaphor?

300
Description of how things feel.

What is tactile imagery?

300

Words that sound like the sounds they're describing.

What is onomatopoeia?

300

Giving human-like qualities to non-human things.

What is personification?

400
Description of how things taste.

What is gustatory imagery?

400

A word or phrase that's repeated throughout a poem.

What is a refrain?

400

Extreme exaggeration.

What is hyperbole?

500
Description of how things smell.

What is olfactory imagery?

500

The repetition of consonant sounds in the middle and ends of words.

What is consonance?

500

When the reality is contrary to what you expect.

What is irony?

600

Description of how things move.

What is kinesthetic imagery?

600

The repetition of a word or words at the beginnings of successive lines, stanzas or paragraphs.

What is anaphora?

600

The Daily Double

What is a paradox?