Devices Flashcards
What is the term for the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words in a line of poetry?
Alliteration
What is the term for the repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry?
Assonance
What is the term for the repetition of similar sounds at the end of words in a line of poetry?
Rhyme
Which poetry device involves giving human characteristics to non-human objects or animals?
Personification
What is the term for the deliberate repetition of the same word or phrase at the start of a sentence in a poem?
Anaphora
Which poetry device involves using contradictory terms in conjunction with one another?
Oxymoron
What is the term for the comparison of two unlike things using ‘like’ or ‘as’?
Simile
Which poetry device involves the use of words that sound like their meaning?
Onomatopoeia
What is the term for the use of humor, irony, or exaggeration in poetry?
Satire
Which poetry device involves the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities?
Symbolism
Allusion
Suggesting something without mentioning it explicitly (often historical events)
Aporia
When the speaker proposes a question to a dilemma, which can make the audience feel sympathetic
Ballad
Narrative poems usually consisting four-line stanzas
Colloquialism
Language that is informal and conversational, establishing personality, historical eras, or geographical areas
Consonance
Repeated consonant sounds at the ending of words placed near each other, produces a pleasing kind of near-rhyme
