Poetic and Literary Devices- How Many Do You Know?

Question 1

A figure of speech in which an animal, object, or idea, is given human qualities.

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Personification

Question 2

Figure of speech using exaggeration for emphasis or humorous effect.

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Hyperbole

Question 3

The Spider sewed at night.

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Personification

Question 4

In the steamer is the trout/ seasoned with slivers of ginger.

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Alliteration

Question 5

Figure of speech using like or as to compare seemingly unlike things

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Simile

Question 6

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.

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Alliteration

Question 7

We drove around the corner about a million times.

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Hyperbole

Question 8

And the stars never rise but I/ See the bright eyes

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Assonance

Question 9

Her knotted hands showing slow blue rivers/ Jerked nervously through cornbread frying

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Imagery

Question 10

The moon is a white sliver.

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Metaphor

Question 11

The repetition of similar vowel sounds.

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Assonance

Question 12

Figure of speech that compares two or more things saying something else is something else

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Metaphor

Question 13

The use of a word or phrase that imitates or suggests the sound of what it is describing.

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Onomatopoeia

Question 14

Rivers I once swam trickle now like gentle streams.

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Simile

Question 15

A repetition of consonant sounds.

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Consonance

Question 16

Language used for descriptive effect to imply ideas indirectly. Expressions not literally true.

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Figurative Language

Question 17

What device is used here: I heard a hiss from the snake.

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Onomatopoeia

Question 18

The jock's socks are in his locker.

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Consonance

Question 19

Does it stink like rotten meat?

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Simile

Question 20

Word pictures that writers use to help evoke an emotional response in readers (5 senses).

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Imagery

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