Poetic Devices Test
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- Q1a comparison of two unlike things using words "like or as"simile30s
- Q2exaggeration; the obvious stretching of the truthHyperbolesimilerhymemetaphor30s
- Q3the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of several wordshyperbolemoodalliterationrhyme30s
- Q4the repetition of the same vowel sound at the beginning of several wordsmetaphorrhymeassonancealliteration30s
- Q5a comparison of two unlike things that does not use the words "like or as"metaphorsimilemoodrhyme30s
- Q6when an animal, object or idea is given human qualities, such as the ability to hear, feel, speak, or make decisionspersonificationonomatopoeiamoodrepetition30s
- Q7the use of words that sound like the noises they describerhymealliterationsimileonomatopoeia30s
- Q8to repeat something- a sound, word, phrase, or sentence- more than oncerepetitionalliterationassonancemood30s
- Q9the repetition of similar sounds either at the end of lines of poetry or within a line of poetryrhymeassonancealliterationsimile30s
- Q10a repeated regular pattern of rhymes usually found at the ends of lines in a poemmetaphorrhyme schemesimilemood30s
- Q11all the tools a poet uses to create a special effect or feeling, such as simile, personification, onomatopoeia etc...figurative languagemoodsimilerhyme30s
- Q12the feeling created in a reader by a poem or story. Words, phrases, repetition, rhyme and exaggeration all work together to create that feeling.moodsimilemetaphorpersonification30s
- Q13A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of artassonancerhymeallusionalliteration30s
- Q14normal word order in a poem is reversedrhymemoodsimilepoetic inversion30s
- Q15repetition of consonant sounds at the end of wordssimilemetaphorconsonancemood30s