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Sound Devices
Figurative Language I
Figurative Language II
Word Sense
100
This type of poem has three lines. The first line has five syllables, the second line has seven syllables, and the third line has five syllables.
What is a haiku?
100
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of neighboring words.
What is alliteration?
100
A character, place, thing, or event that stands for something else.
What is a symbol?
100
It's raining cats and dogs is an example of which figurative language device?
What is an idiom?
100
The dictionary meaning of words.
What is denotation?
200
This Japanese poem focuses on a single image. It has five lines and is similar to a haiku.
What is a tanka?
200
Words that imitate sounds.
What is onomatopoeia?
200
The regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem. It is indicated by using different letters of the alphabet for each new rhyme.
What is rhyme scheme?
200
I spent 100 hours on this paper is an example of which figurative language device?
What is a hyperbole?
200
The writer's attitude toward his or her audience and subject.
What is tone?
300
This type of poem has 14 lines and a set rhyme scheme. It can be English or Italian.
What is a sonnet?
300
The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words.
What is assonance?
300
The use of any element of language- a sound, a word, a phrase -more than once.
What is repetition?
300
He is the ship of state is an example of which figurative language device?
What is a metaphor?
300
The atmosphere created in the reader by a literary work.
What is the mood?
400
This type of poem has 19 lines. The rhyme scheme is aba, aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa,
What is a villanelle.
400
The repetition of identical sounds in the last syllables of words.
What is rhyme?
400
A combination of words that contradict each other such as bittersweet and honest thief.
What is an oxymoron?
400
Language that creates word pictures for the readers and that appeals to the senses.
What is imagery?
400
The imaginary voice assumed by the writer of a poem.
Who is the speaker?
500
This type of poem has no set form.
What is free verse?
500
The repetition of consonants within nearby words, i.e. milk and walk.
What is consonance?
500
The arrangement of stressed syllables, or beats, in lines of poetry.
What is meter?
500
A group of lines of poetry, similar to a paragraph in prose.
What is a stanza?
500
Writing or speech not meant to be taken literally.
What is figurative language?