Poetic Devices and Techniques Review

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words that are close together.

• allusion

• allegory

• alliteration

• analogy

A comparison between two unlike things where one thing is said to be another.

• metaphor

• simile

• myth

• personification

An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis in poems and stories.

• Humor

• Cliche

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

The use of words that imitate the sounds of what they describe.

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Nonverbal

• Splat!

What is a theme?

• The author's main point in a paragraph.

• The lesson or moral of the story (narrative).

• The author's main point of the entire text.

• A one-word subject such as love, bravery, or rebellion.

What is imagery?

• The way the text makes the reader feel.

• The writer's attitude towards a subject.

• Hints the writer gives about what may happen.

• Language that appeals to the five senses.

Which term refers to the act of giving human characteristics to objects or abstract ideas?

• Personification

• Pun

• Metaphor

• Oxymoron

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.

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.

Match the following

• An object that represents something else

• symbol

• words whose sound imitates meaning

• onomatopoeia

• direct comparison without like or/as

• metaphor