Poetic Device Definitions

Question 1

Exaggeration for dramatic effect

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Hyperbole

Question 2

The internal feel or beat when poetry is read aloud

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Rhythm

Question 3

Repetition of Consonant sounds

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Consonance

Question 4

Creating a detailed picture with words

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Imagery

Question 5

A comparison using like or as

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Simile

Question 6

Feelings suggested by a word or expression.

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Connotation

Question 7

A pair of lines which end-rhyme express one clear thought

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Rhyming couplet

Question 8

A reference to a person, place or thing with literary, historical or geopraphical significance.

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Allusion

Question 9

Words that imitate the sound that they name.

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Onomatopeia

Question 10

The pattern in which rhymes are arranged

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Rhyme Scheme

Question 11

A difference between the way something appears and what is actually true.

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Irony

Question 12

The dictionary definition of a word.

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Denotation

Question 13

Repetition of vowels.

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Assonance

Question 14

The central thought

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Theme

Question 15

Human characteristics are given to things that are not human.

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Personification

Question 16

words or phrases are repeted.

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Repetition

Question 17

word endings sound alike.

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Rhyme

Question 18

Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of the words

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Alliteration

Question 19

A comparison not using like or as

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Metaphor

Question 20

The difference between the way something appears and what is actually true.

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Idiom

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