7th grade Poetic Devices

Front

What is the musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables?

Back

Rhythm

Front

What is a direct comparison of two unlike things that does NOT use like or as?

Back

Metaphor

Front

What figure of speech gives human-like characteristics to an abstract idea or non-human thing?

Back

Personification

Front

What is a group of lines in a poem called?

Back

Stanza

Front

What is a brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art?

Back

Allusion

Front

What is the repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words?

Back

Alliteration

Front

What is a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?

Back

Simile

Front

What is an exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally?

Back

Hyperbole

Front

What is a type of poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme?

Back

Free Verse

Front

What is the use of words that imitate sounds?

Back

Onomatopoeia