Poetic Devices
What is a comparison using "like" or "as"?
Answer: What is a simile?
What do we call words that have the same ending sound?
Answer: What is rhyme?
What type of language appeals to the five senses?
Answer: What is imagery?
What is a group of lines in a poem called?
Answer: What is a stanza?
What is the literal dictionary definition of a word called?
Answer: What is denotation?
What is a direct comparison that does not use "like" or "as"?
Answer: What is a metaphor?
What is the pattern of rhyming words at the ends of lines called?
Answer: What is a rhyme scheme?
What is the term for words that appeal specifically to the senses?
Answer: What is sensory language?
What do we call a 4-line stanza, often with a rhyme scheme?
Answer: What is a quatrain?
What feeling does the word "home" convey?
Answer: What is warmth and safety?
What is exaggeration for dramatic effect?
Answer: What is hyperbole?
What term describes the beat or flow of a poem?
Answer: What is rhythm?
What is a line in poetry that contains a 5-7-5 syllable pattern?
Answer: What is a haiku?
What is a poem with no set rhyme or rhythm?
Answer: What is free verse?
What is the term for using an object to symbolize a deeper meaning?
Answer: What is symbolism?
What device gives human qualities to animals, objects, or ideas?
Answer: What is personification?
What do we call the repetition of the same beginning consonant sound in nearby words?
Answer: What is alliteration?
What type of poem praises or celebrates a person, thing, or idea?
Answer: What is an ode?
What is a poem where the last word of each line spells out another line vertically?
Answer: What is a golden shovel poem?
What do we call the exaggeration used for dramatic effect?
Answer: What is hyperbole?
What is the term for using an object to represent a deeper meaning?
Answer: What is symbolism?
What is the term for repeating words or phrases for emphasis?
Answer: What is repetition?
What is the term for a poem where the first letter of each line spells a word?
What is an acrostic?
What is the feeling or idea a word suggests called?
Answer: What is connotation?
What is it called when you give human-like qualities to non-human entities?
Answer: What is personification?