Poetic Devices

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repeating sounds

Question 2

Assonance

Answer 2

Repetition of vowel sounds

Question 3

Consonance

Answer 3

Repetition of consonant sound

Question 4

Allusion

Answer 4

Something references to something familiar (that test was the atomic bomb)

Question 5

Analogy

Answer 5

Extended comparison of two things that are similar but not exactly alike that has reasoning behind it (life is like a box of chocolate)

Question 6

Anecdote

Answer 6

A short story that is amusing (sky diving story)

Question 7

Antithesis

Answer 7

Side by side ideas that are contradictory to each other (I laughed so hard I cried)

Question 8

Apostrophe

Answer 8

Love of an inanimate object (poem about how much you love chocolate)

Question 9

Archaic language

Answer 9

Outdated language (groovy)

Question 10

Aside

Answer 10

When someone on stage talks to audience or other character but not everyone on stage hears

Question 11

Blank poetry

Answer 11

Possesses rhythm but not rhyme

Question 12

Cacophony/dissonance

Answer 12

Harsh words or sounds (swear words)

Question 13

Catharsis

Answer 13

Cleanse emotion after play, poem, movie etc. (crying after la miserable or a walk to remember)

Question 14

Character foil

Answer 14

Two characters are the opposite (if billy likes ice cream we assume jinny does not)

Question 15

Cliché

Answer 15

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch

Question 16

Colloquial language

Answer 16

Language we use every day (salty, like)

Question 17

Compare

Answer 17

View similarities between things

Question 18

Allegory

Answer 18

Story has a moral or theme to learn from (tortoise and the hare)

Question 19

Concealment

Answer 19

When a character is hidden on stage from the actors but not the audience (romeo in garden)

Question 20

Connotative meaning

Answer 20

Associated meaning of a word (snitch=rat)

Question 21

Contrast

Answer 21

Differences between things

Question 22

Couplet

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2 verses alike in meter are rhyme (for never was there a tail of more woe then that of Juliet and her Romeo)

Question 23

Denotative meaning

Answer 23

Dictionary meaning

Question 24

Denouement

Answer 24

Conclusion or resolution (princess peach in romeo and juliet)

Question 25

Drugs ex machina

Answer 25

A power that comes in the nick of time (if friar came in time)

Question 26

Diction

Answer 26

The selected words

Question 27

Dramatic monologue

Answer 27

One sided conversation

Question 28

Dynamic character

Answer 28

Someone who changes (romeo)

Question 29

Elegy

Answer 29

A poem about someone dead

Question 30

Empathy

Answer 30

Feel another's pain (walk in there shoes)

Question 31

Epic

Answer 31

Long poem about a heroic person

Question 32

Euphemism

Answer 32

Change to "nice language" (social butterfly)

Question 33

Euphony

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Pleasant musical quality (wishing wanting)

Question 34

Flat character

Answer 34

Easy character to sum up (prince in Romeo and juliet)

Question 35

Foreshadowing

Answer 35

Hints about future

Question 36

Free verse

Answer 36

Un-rhyming inspirational verse Irregular meter Many poetic devices

Question 37

Haiku

Answer 37

5-7-5

Question 38

Hyperbole

Answer 38

Huge exaggeration

Question 39

Imagery

Answer 39

Appeal to Senses

Question 40

In media res

Answer 40

Starting plot anywhere but beginning (lord of the rings)

Question 41

Initial incident

Answer 41

Starts conflict ball rolling (going to caplet ball)

Question 42

Irony

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Intended meaning is opposite to what actually happens

Question 43

Dramatic irony

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Audience has more knowledge then charterers (Juliet's really not dead)

Question 44

Situational irony

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Reader expects one thing to happen and the opposite happens (montage and capsules fall in love)

Question 45

Verbal irony

Answer 45

Sarcasm

Question 46

Juxtaposition

Answer 46

Cameron and fouda

Question 47

Meiosis

Answer 47

Understatement

Question 48

Metaphor

Answer 48

Direct comparison

Question 49

Controlling metaphor

Answer 49

Whole poem is metaphor

Question 50

Extended metaphor

Answer 50

Metaphor lasting for portion

Question 51

Meter

Answer 51

A beat and pattern

Question 52

Mood atmosphere

Answer 52

How you feel reading the poem

Question 53

Onomatopoeia

Answer 53

Bang crash boom!

Question 54

Oxymoron

Answer 54

Sweet sin. Jumbo shrimp.

Question 55

Paradox

Answer 55

To make peace we must have war

Question 56

Parallelism

Answer 56

Two things are alike/equal (life is like a box of chocolates)

Question 57

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 57

When setting represents mood (horror movie in an alley)

Question 58

Pathos

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Sympathy for character

Question 59

Personification

Answer 59

Wind whispered my name (wind can't whisper)

Question 60

Pun

Answer 60

Play on word

Question 61

Theoretical question

Answer 61

Do I look stupid to you

Question 62

Rhythm

Answer 62

The beat which is present

Question 63

Round character

Answer 63

Someone you can talk about a lot and Is capable of change

Question 64

Satire

Answer 64

Making fun of society (jimmy Fallon)

Question 65

Simile

Answer 65

Like as then comparison

Question 66

Soliloquy

Answer 66

Monologue alone on stage about thoughts (friars speech)

Question 67

Sonnet

Answer 67

14 line lyrical poem

Question 68

Stanza

Answer 68

Block of text

Question 69

Static character

Answer 69

Character that does not change (friar)

Question 70

Stereotype stock archetype

Answer 70

Character that keeps appearing (damsel in distress)

Question 71

Symbolism

Answer 71

Dove = peace West = death Etc.

Question 72

Synecdoche

Answer 72

Give me a hand | lend me your ear

Question 73

Tone

Answer 73

Attitude

Question 74

Tragedy

Answer 74

Person who has heroic potential has a character flaw (romeo)

Question 75

Hamartia

Answer 75

Fatal flaw (Romeos impulse)

Question 76

Parody

Answer 76

Making fun with something recognizable