English - Language Devices

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Words next to each other that begin with the same sound/letter

Question 2

Assonance

Answer 2

Repetition of vowel sounds

Question 3

Caesura

Answer 3

A complete pause in a line of poetry

Question 4

Enjambment

Answer 4

Countinuing a sentence without punctuation

Question 5

Hyperbole

Answer 5

Extreme exaggeration to make a point

Question 6

Metaphor

Answer 6

Saying something IS something else

Question 7

Onomatopoeia

Answer 7

Words whose sounds resemble their meaning

Question 8

Oxymoron

Answer 8

A figure of speech that combines two contradictory terms

Question 9

Personification

Answer 9

Giving a non-human thing human personality

Question 10

Repetition

Answer 10

Repeating something which has already been written

Question 11

Rhyme

Answer 11

When the ends of two words near each other sound similar

Question 12

Sibilance

Answer 12

Words that hiss

Question 13

Simile

Answer 13

Saying something is LIKE or AS something else

Question 14

Symbolism

Answer 14

When words, phrases, or images represent a certain idea

Question 15

Tone

Answer 15

The feeling or mood created by language