English Poetry Devices

Repetition of a sound or letter at the beginning of neighboring words.

• alliteration

• assonance

• connotation

• consonance

"Life is a journey" is an example of which poetic device?

• imagery

• mood

• metaphor

• theme

A group of lines within a poem (similar to a paragraph in a story).

• stanza

• tone

• form

• imagery

a huge exaggeration

• repetition

• hyperbole

• lyric

• denotation

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

• Repetition 
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole
• Rhyme 

What gives human qualities to something that is non-human?

• Sensory Language 
• Metaphor
• Onomatopoeia 
• Personification 

What is the use of any element of language, more than once?

• Repetition 
• Rhyme
• Alliteration 
• Rhythm 

What describes one thing as if it were something else.

• Simile 
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopoeia 

What is writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses? 

• Alliteration 
• Onomatopoeia 
• Hyperbole 
• Sensory Language 

What uses like or as to compare two apparently unlike things?

• Metaphor 
• Hyperbole 
• Simile 
• Repetition