Literary Devices 3

Question 1

Giving human characteristics to non-human things

Accepted Answer

Personification

Question 2

When the last thing you expect to happen, happens

Accepted Answer

Situational irony

Question 3

Beginning several words with the same (usually consonant) sounds

Accepted Answer

Alliteration

Question 4

Reversal of expectations

Accepted Answer

Irony

Question 5

A reference to a person, place, event, or another piece of literature

Accepted Answer

Allusion

Question 6

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a particular meter

Accepted Answer

Free verse

Question 7

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

Accepted Answer

Blank verse

Question 8

Rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse

Accepted Answer

Internal rhyme

Question 9

Repetition of ending consonant sounds (ex: "hit," "thought," "smart")

Accepted Answer

Consonance

Question 10

The act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present

Accepted Answer

Apostrophe

Question 11

Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

Accepted Answer

Iambic Pentameter

Question 12

Beginning consecutive lines of poetry with identical words or phrases

Accepted Answer

Anaphora

Question 13

Repetition of internal vowel sounds

Accepted Answer

Assonance

Question 14

Affirming something by negating its opposite ("He's not smart = "He's stupid")

Accepted Answer

Litotes

Question 15

Sentence structure

Accepted Answer

Syntax

Questions 15