English IV Poetic Devices

What are exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally?

• Hyberbole
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia

What is the repetition of the beginning consonant sounds in words?

• Simile
• Alliteration
• Metaphor
• Personification

What creates a picture in the reader's mind?

• Simile
• Onomatopoeia
• Personification
• Imagery

What is a comparison of two different things. Doesn't use like or as?

• Simile
• Onomatopoeia
• Metaphor
• Rhyme

What is a comparison of two unlike things using like or as?

• Simile
• Rhyme
• Stanza
• Metaphor

To repeat sounds, words, phrases, or whole lines in a poem.

• Rhyme
• Repitition
• Rhyme Schemes
• Stanza

What are words that end in the same sound, end rhyme?

• Rhyme Schemes
• Stanza
• Rhythm
• Rhyme

What is the pattern of rhymes?

• Stanza
• Repitition
• Rhyme Schemes
• Theme

What is the message about life that the poem conveys?

• Theme
• Tone
• Stanza
• Rhythm

A division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains.

• Lines
• Stanza
• Sound
• Triplet