Devices
Aspects
Sound
Multiple
Examples
100

word or phrase that departs from everyday literal language

figurative language

100

comparison using like, as, or than

simile

100

words that sound as the noises they describe

onomatopoeia

100

elements of poetry that give poems a musical quality

sound devices

100

I've heard this song a million times

hyperbole

200

great exaggeration

hyperbole

200

the speaker of the poem

voice

200
repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words

alliteration

200

musical quality created by pattern of beats in a series of stressed and unstressed syllables

rhythm

200

"Truth is like a bright flame."

Simile

300

giving human-like qualities to things that are not human

personification

300

the attitude the speaker takes towards the poem

tone

300

the repetition of similar sounds WITHIN a line of poetry

internal rhyme

300

The stars threw down their spears

And water earth with their tears


Name the 2 literary devices.

Personification

Rhyme

300

The pans clattered and banged. The tapping of the wooden spoon--tap, tap, tap

onomatopoeia

400

comparison NOT using like, as, or than

metaphor

400

the feeling created in the reader by the poem

mood

400

the repetition of similar sounds at the END of lines of poetry

end rhyme

400

"The wind whipped and howled outside, rattling the windows and trying to break into the little house"?

Name the 2 literary devices.

alliteration

personification

400

Silent children sleeping softly in their bedroom bunks

alliteration

500
reference to some famous, person, place or event from history or literature

allusion

500

language that appeals to the five senses

imagery

500

a repeated regular pattern of rhymes usually found at the ends of lines of a poem

rhyme scheme

500

"I dreamed a dream next Tuesday week,/Beneath the apple-trees; I thought my eyes were big pork-pies,/And my nose was Stilton cheese".

Name the 2 literary devices & 1 sound device

alliteration

metaphor

rhyme

500

O Sea! whose ancient ripples lie on red-ribbed sands where seaweeds shone; 

O moon! whose golden sickle's gone, 

imagery