Poetic Devices Study Guide Flashcards
English 8 (41 cards)
A figure of speech which uses extreme exaggeration.
Hyperbole
I’ll never get this fishing line untangled in a million years!
Hyperbole
The mental impression summoned up by a word, phrase or sentence. It suggests to the reader what to think and feel.
Imagery
A figure of speech that compares two or more things with a similar quality and does not use “like” or “as”. One thing is said to be another.
Metaphor
Life is a banana cream pie.
Time is money.
Metaphor
A device where seemingly opposite words are placed together for effect.
Oxymoron
Ms. Smith always tries to “act naturally,” especially when her students are being “seriously funny.”
Oxymoron
When an inanimate object or abstract image is given human qualities or abilities.
Personification
The leaves “danced” in the wind. The tree “screamed” under the saw blade. It was a “strutting” sort of blue.
Personification
A figure of speech that compares two things by using “like” or “as.”
Simile
He was as excited as a kid at Christmas. He looked like a Jack-in-the-box the way he kept jumping up.
Simile
The repetition of initial sounds in words within a line or verse of poetry.
Alliteration
Ms. Smith’s English class causes her confusion.
Alliteration
Repetition of the same vowel sound in a line of poetry. It is often used to slow the pace of poetry.
Assonance
She lived in the hills.
Assonance
The repetition of consonant sounds anywhere in the words
Consonance
All minor mammals named Sam are clammy.
Consonance
A stanza of two lines
Couplet
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance. As those move easiest who have learn’d to dance.
Couplet
The use of words which suggest their meaning when pronounced.
Onomatopoeia
The bees “buzz” the clock “tick tocks” the snake “hisses”
Onomatopoeia
A line or group of lines which are repeated in the course of a poem (usually at the end of each stanza)
Refrain
Two words which end with identical sounds (rhyme depends on sound, not spelling)
Rhyme
Crime/rhyme/slime/time
Rhyme
