Poetic And Figurative Devices

Question 1

What is allusion?

Answer 1

An allusion is a quick reference to a famous place,person,thing,or event. Allusions can be historical or present

Question 2

What is an example of an allusion?

Answer 2

I wish I could wave a magic wand and it would be done!

Question 3

What is an idiom?

Answer 3

An idiom is a common phrase or expression in which the meaning of the phrase is completely different from the literal meaning of the phrase.

Question 4

Example of an Idiom?

Answer 4

DONT CRY OVER SPLIT MILK!

Question 5

What is imagery?

Answer 5

Imagery is when the writer uses words that appeal to the human senses to paint a vivid image in the readers mind.

Question 6

An example of imagery?

Answer 6

I love my fluffy new blanket. The fibres make me feel like I’m sleeping on a soft, pillow cloud.

Question 7

What is a hyperbole?

Answer 7

Hyperbole is using exaggeration to highlight or make a point of something like a description or a feeling.

Question 8

What is an example of a Hyperbole?

Answer 8

That coffee was hot enough to melt an iceberg!

Question 9

What is a metaphor?

Answer 9

A metaphor is an indirect comparison between two things without using the words like or as. These items might not seem like they have anything in common, but they actually do.

Question 10

An example of a metaphor?

Answer 10

The snow is a blanket of white, or the sun was a bright lightbulb

Question 11

What is an oxymoron?

Answer 11

An oxymoron is an expression where two opposite or contradictory terms appear together

Question 12

An example of an oxymoron?

Answer 12

Big baby
Seriously funny
Jumbo shrimp
Freezer burn

Question 13

What is personification?

Answer 13

Personification is when an idea, animal or natural feature is giving human characteristics or traits.

Question 14

What is an example of personification?

Answer 14

The carrot swam in the pool of gravy. 

Question 15

What is the definition of a pun?

Answer 15

A pun is a play on words, puns often use homophones or similar, sounding words with different meanings to produce a fun phrase.

Question 16

What is an example of a pun?

Answer 16

How to communicate with a fish? Drop them a line.
Fish are so smart because they live in schools.

Question 17

What is the definition of a simile?

Answer 17

A simile is a direct comparison between two things. It must contain the words like or as. Some similes show the similarities between two things. Similes must include one of those keywords. 

Question 18

What is an example of a simile?

Answer 18

The snow is as bright as the morning sun

Question 19

What is the definition of symbolism?

Answer 19

Symbolism is when a physical symbol is used to represent an abstract concept, feeling or quality.

Question 20

What is an example of symbolism?

Answer 20

Colours are often symbols, for example red for love, or blood black for death.

Question 21

What is the definition of alliteration?

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Alliteration is the repetition of an initial consonant sound of a series of words. This means that the first letter of the word cannot be a vowel, and the same continent needs to be used repetitively, although they don’t necessarily need to be one right after another.

Question 22

An example of alliteration?

Answer 22

My sister, Shelly likes the seashells she picks up on the seashore.

Question 23

What is the definition of assonance?

Answer 23

Assonance is the repetition of a vowel sound in a series of words. The these letters don’t need to be the same, but they have to produce the same sound. For example, 00, and oh, you can produce the same sound, depending on the words.

Question 24

An example of assonance?

Answer 24

The cat is out of the bag

Question 25

What is the definition of onomatopoeia?

Answer 25

Onomatopoeia is when the sound something makes is reproduced as a written word. We use onomatopoeia a lot.

Question 26

What is an example of onomatopoeia?

Answer 26

Drip, hiccup, splash