Poetic Devices

Question 1

Simile

Answer 1

As or Like

Question 2

Assonance

Answer 2

Repition of vowel sounds

Question 3

Consonance

Answer 3

Repition of consonant

Question 4

Alliteration

Answer 4

Repetition of same sound at beginning of word

Question 5

Apostrophe

Answer 5

Address to a dead, abstract or absent entity

Question 6

Chiasmus

Answer 6

Inversion of parallel phrases
Do not live to eat but eat to live

Question 7

Diction

Answer 7

Poets distinctive choices in vocab

Question 8

Echo

Answer 8

repetition of key word or idea

Question 9

Hyperbole

Answer 9

Exaggeration

Question 10

Metaphor

Answer 10

Comparison not using as or like

Question 11

Onomatopoeia

Answer 11

Use of words resembling sounds
(Bzz bzz)

Question 12

Oxymoron

Answer 12

Contradiction of two words

Question 13

Paradox

Answer 13

Contradiction of two idea

Question 14

Personification

Answer 14

Human behaviors to non-human things or abstract

Question 15

Rhythe,

Answer 15

Feel of beat and meter perceived when read

Question 16

Tone

Answer 16

Mood feelings conveyed in poem

Question 17

Wordplay

Answer 17

Clever exchange of words (Pun)

Question 18

Dramatic monologue

Answer 18

Speaker addresses an internal listener or reader

Question 19

Couplet

Answer 19

Two succesive rhyming lines

Question 20

Eye rhyme

Answer 20

Words that look as though they should rhyme