Common Meter, Slant Rhyme, and Poetic Devices

Alliteration is...

• An understatement, often used ironically

• The use of words that sound alike

• An extreme exaggeration

• A repetition of sounds throughout several words in a line

Litote is...

• An understatement, often used ironically

• The use of words that sound alike

• An extreme exaggeration

• A repetition of sounds throughout several words in a line

A 'fixed' saying that has a certain meaning, unrelated to the actual image brought to mind by the phrase is an...

The difference between assonance and consonance is...

• Assonance is the repetition of consonant sounds and consonance is the repetition of vowel sounds

• Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds and consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds

• Assonance is when words have a negative connotation and consonance is when words have a positive connotation

• Assonance and consonance mean the same thing, assonance is just the plural version

An object, person, or place used to represent something else is called a...

Which of the following is an example of common meter?

• Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me, I once was lost, but now I'm found, was blind but now I see.

• Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,Waves, undulating waves--liquid, uneven, emulous waves,Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves,Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking, displaced the surface

• What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a sore—And then run?

• See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet,The trouble in the pace and the uncertainWavering!

Which of the following is an example of a slant rhyme?

• Ball/Fall

• Slick/Wick

• Sew/Low

• Afraid/Brave

Giving an object human-like qualities is known as...

• Anthropomorphization

• Personification

• Juxtaposition

• Apostrophe

Giving an animal human-like qualities is known as...

• Anthropomorphization

• Personification

• Juxtaposition

• Apostrophe

A statement that seems contradictory, but is actually true is a...