English poetic devices

Question 1

Rhyme

Answer 1

Words that have the same ending sound

Question 2

Onomatopoeia

Answer 2

Words that sound like the objects or actions they refer to

Question 3

Rhyme Scheme

Answer 3

Regular pattern of words that END with the same sound

Question 4

Repetition

Answer 4

Repeating the same words, lines or stanzas

Question 5

Rhythm

Answer 5

Regular, repeated pattern of sounds, or beats

Question 6

Stanza

Answer 6

A group of lines in a poem; a ‘paragraph’

Question 7

Narrative Poem

Answer 7

A poem that tells a story

Question 8

Hyperbole

Answer 8

An exaggeration

Question 9

Figurative Language

Answer 9

All language that used word pictures to compare or describe things. Includes similes, metaphors, hyperbole, and more.

Question 10

Metaphor

Answer 10

A figure of speech in which things are compared by stating that one thing IS another

Question 11

Imagery

Answer 11

Description that appeals to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

Question 12

Simile

Answer 12

A figure of speech in which things are compared using the words “like” or “as”

Question 13

Alliteration

Answer 13

Repetition of words with the same BEGINNING sounds

Question 14

Personification

Answer 14

A figure of speech in which objects are given human qualities

Question 15

Free Verse

Answer 15

Poetry NOT written in rhyme or meter.