Literary Devices/Poetic Devices

What is the definition of assonance?

• Repetition of vowel sounds within a line of poetry

• Repetition of consonant sounds within words in a line of poetry

• The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

• The continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break

Which term refers to the repetition of consonant sounds within words in a line of poetry?

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Alliteration

• Enjambment

What is the definition of alliteration?

• Repetition of vowel sounds within a line of poetry

• Repetition of consonant sounds within words in a line of poetry

• The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

• The continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break

Which term refers to the continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break?

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Alliteration

• Enjambment

What is the definition of personification?

• Endowing animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human characteristics

• Implied comparison between seemingly unrelated things, usually one tangible and one intangible

• Comparison between two seemingly unrelated things using like, as or than

• Formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

the voice of the poem; it may be the voice of the poet or the voice of a character in the poem invented by the poet

• Speaker

• Enjambent

• Metaphor

• Simile

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named

• Allusion

• Simile

• Onamonapia

• Hyperbole

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Allusion

• Onamonapia

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

conscious exaggeration used to produce a heightened or comic effect

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Imagery

• Allusion

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

implied comparison between seemingly unrelated things, usually one tangible and one intangible

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole
• Alliteration

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.4