Literary Devices and Figurative Language of E.A. Poe

Question 1

A comparison of two unlike things which does not use "Like" or "As"

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Metaphor

Question 2

And the best teacher in this class is

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Mrs. McNamee, Mr. James

Question 3

This is the term for language which helps paint a picture to our 5 senses.

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Imagery, Sensory Images

Question 4

"And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."

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Personification

Question 5

"He had an eye of an vulture - a pale blue eye with a film over it."

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Metaphor, Sensory Image

Question 6

Pattern of sound created by stressed and unstressed syllables.

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Rhythm

Question 7

Comparing two like things using "Like" or "As"

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Simile

Question 8

A recurrance or repeating of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas in a piece of writing

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Repetition

Question 9

The repetition of sounds at the ends of words.

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Rhyme

Question 10

The pattern of stressed unstressed syllables

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Rhythm

Question 11

Giving human qualities to non-human things

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Personification

Question 12

The feeling/emotion a reader has when they read a text - usually through descriptive language.

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Mood

Question 13

When we repeat consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

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Alliteration

Question 14

The attitude of the writer/narrator towards the subject of the text

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Tone

Question 15

The beating of the old man's heart represents guilt.

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Symbolism

Question 16

"... a single dim ray ... fell upon the vulture eye."

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Metaphor, Imagery, Sensory Images

Question 17

"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,"

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Internal Rhyme, Alliteration

Question 18

"The old man's room was black as pitch."

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Simile

Question 19

Any object, person, place, or experience that means more than what it is.

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Symbolism

Question 20

"As if someone gently rapping - rapping at my chamber door."

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Repetition

Question 21

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,"

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Rhyme, Internal Rhyme

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