Poetic Devices

Question 1

Allegory

Answer 1

Story or visual imagery with a second meaning partially hidden.

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

Repetition of initial consonant sounds

Question 3

Analogy

Answer 3

Illustration of an idea using an example that is similar or parallel to it in some significant features

Question 4

Apostrophe

Answer 4

Figure of speech in which and absent person or abstract concept is addressed

Question 5

Assonance

Answer 5

Repetition of similar or identical vowel sounds usually in stressed syllables

Question 6

Cacophony

Answer 6

Harshness or discordancy of sound; usually result of awkward alliteration

Question 7

Consonance

Answer 7

Repetition of consonant sounds within words

Question 8

Dissonance

Answer 8

Harshness of sound and/or rhythm , either inadvertent or deliberate

Question 9

Euphony

Answer 9

A pleasing smoothness of sound

Question 10

Hyperbole

Answer 10

A deliberate exaggeration for effect

Question 11

Imagery

Answer 11

Language that evokes sensory impressions

Question 12

Litotes

Answer 12

Figure of speech with an understatement in which and affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite

Question 13

Metaphor

Answer 13

Comparison of two unlike objects; saying one is the other

Question 14

Metonymy

Answer 14

Figure of speech that replaces the literal thing with a more vivid, but closely related thing or idea

Question 15

Onomatopeia

Answer 15

Words that seem to imitate the sounds to which they refer

Question 16

Oxymoron

Answer 16

Putting two contradictory words together

Question 17

Paradox

Answer 17

A statement which seems contradictory, yet contains a basis of truth which reconciles the seeming opposites

Question 18

Parallelism

Answer 18

The arrangement of similarly constructed clauses, verses or sentences, suggesting some correspondence between them

Question 19

Personification

Answer 19

Giving of human attributes to inanimate objects

Question 20

Pun

Answer 20

A humourous expression that depends on a double meaning

Question 21

Rhetorical Question

Answer 21

To which a reply is not required or wanted. Asked for effect.

Question 22

Satire

Answer 22

Exposes the failings or individuals, institutions or societies; holds them up to ridicule or scorn in order to correct or expose some evil or wrong doing

Question 23

Simile

Answer 23

Comparison of to unlike object using “like” or “as”, sometimes “than”

Question 24

Synechdoche

Answer 24

A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part