Poetic Devices

Question 1

Rhyme

Answer 1

Use of words with same final words.
E.g. Lamp
Stamp

Question 2

End Rhyme

Answer 2

Rhymes with a word on another line.
E.g. Hey diddle ‘diddle’
The cat and the ‘fiddle’.

Question 3

Internal Rhyme

Answer 3

Rhymes with a word on the same line.
E.g. Once upon a midnight ‘dreary’ while I pondered weak and ‘weary’.

Question 4

Near Rhyme

Answer 4

Either the same vowel or constant but not both.
E.g. Rose
Lose

Question 5

Rhyme Scheme

Answer 5

Pattern of a rhyme

E.g.
Old mother Hubbard a
Went in a cupboard a
To get her dog a bone b
But when she go there c
The cupboard was there c
And so the dog had no bone b

Question 6

Hyperbole

Answer 6

Exaggeration

E.g. She was as tall as mountains

Question 7

Personification

Answer 7

Give inanimate objects/animals human characteristics

Question 8

Symbolism

Answer 8

Something that represents something else from its literal meaning

Question 9

Allusion

Answer 9

Reference in words to something which most people can understand

These reference come from historical events, mythology etc.

Question 10

Sensory image

Answer 10

Language that appeals to senses

-Tactile: TOUCH
-Gustatory: TASTE
-Visual: SIGHT
-Auditory: SOUND
-Olfactory: SMELL

Question 11

Lyric

Answer 11

Short poem

Question 12

Haiku

Answer 12

A japanese poem written in 3 lines with the pattern of;

-5 syllables (S)
- 7 S
- 5 S

Question 12

Narrative poem

Answer 12

Poem that tells a story

Question 13

Concrete poem

Answer 13

Words are arranged to create a picture that relates to the content of the poem.

Question 14

Assonance + Consonance

Answer 14

A= Repeated vowel sounds in a line or lines of poetry

E.g. Lake, Fate, base, fade- all share long A sound

C= Similar to alliteration except the repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words

E.g. “Silken, Sad, unCertain, ruStling..”

Question 15

Onomatopoeia

Answer 15

Words that imitate the sound they are naming, enhances the sound of the poem and helps convey the mood and atmosphere

Question 16

Alliteration

Answer 16

Contain same consonant sounds

E.g. If peter piper a picked a peck of pickled peppers~

Question 17

Metaphor

Answer 17

Compares one thing to another by saying it is the other

Question 18

Refrain

Answer 18

A sound, word or phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem.

Question 20

Onomatopeia

Answer 20

Words that imitate the sound they are naming

Question 21

Alliteration

Answer 21

Words that have the same consonant sounds

E.g. If peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers~

Question 22

Assonance + Consonance

Answer 22

C= Similar to alliteration but the repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words

E.g. Silken, Sad, unCertain, ruStling

A= Repeated vowel sounds in a line or lines of poetry.

E.g. Late, fate, base, fade- all share the long A sound

Question 23

Refrain

Answer 23

A sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem.

Question 24

Simile

Answer 24

A figure of speech in which one thing is said to be similar to another using the terms ‘like’ or ‘as’

Question 25

Metaphor

Answer 25

Like a simile but it compares on thing to another by saying it is the other