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?
describes the rhythm (or pattern of beats) in a line of poetry.
What is Meter?
The events that occur in a story
What is the plot?
The moon was a ghostly galleon is this example
What is a metaphor?
This is an exaggerated statement.
What is a hyperbole?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
The main character of The Garden Party
Who is Laura?
A poem sung in short stanzas
What is a ballad?
The pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza.
What is rhyme scheme?
“I’ve told you a million times”
is an example of what type of poetic device?
What is hyperbole
What is: painting a picture in the reader’s mind using sensory details
What is Imagery?
A comparison not using like or as!
What is a Metaphor?
What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
A simile compares two things using “like” or “as,” while a metaphor does not
According to the schoolmaster, you should have horses on your walls or flowers on your carpet
What is false
Identified by the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words
What is the consonance?
Alfred Noyes wrote this ballad
What is The Highwayman?
Takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound
What is Assonance?
What is the rhyme scheme of the following stanza?
"The cat sat on the mat
He wore a tiny hat
The dog began to bark
As they played in the park."
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The horse that finished the trip to Ghent
Who is Roland?
Where and when the story takes place
What is the setting?
Who is Scratchy Wilson?
She wove clothing for her son all night
Who is the Harp-Weaver?