Unit 1 Poetic Devices Review

What is a kenning?

• two word metaphor used in place of a noun
• repetition of beginning consonant sounds
• giving non-human things human characteristics
• an understatement that illustrates the opposite of what it states

Which of the following is an example of a kenning?

• That was no easy feat.
• wound-slurry
• Karey killed Kevin.
• The wind sang through the trees.

Repeated initial consonant sounds and repeated vowel sounds

• consonance and dissonance
• alliteration and illiterate
• alliteration and assonance
• kennings and caesuras

What is alliteration?

• Rhyming of words within a line of poetry.
• Repeated beginning consonant sounds.
• A two word metaphor used in place of a noun.
• The rhythm of regular meter in a poem.

Which of the following is an example of alliteration?

• Ava ate apples.
• Jumbo Shrimp
• Wound slurry
• Ty tied Trevor tightly.

A very long poem with a larger than life hero is called a ____.

• Sonnet
• Epic
• Lymeric
• Haiku

What is alliteration?

• The repetition of letters in a line of poetry
• the repetition of letter sounds in a line of poetry
• the repetition of vowel sounds in poetry
• the repetition of consonant sounds in poetry

What is assonance?

• The repetition of letters in a line of poetry
• the repetition of letter sounds in a line of poetry
• the repetition of vowel sounds in poetry
• the repetition of consonant sounds in poetry

This type of figurative language compares two unlike things using like or as.

• metaphor
• hyperbole
• simile
• stanza

What is consonance?

• The repetition of letters in a line of poetry
• the repetition of letter sounds in a line of poetry
• the repetition of vowel sounds in poetry
• the repetition of consonant sounds in poetry