Poetic Devices

Question 1

Simile

Answer 1

Comparison using like or as or then

Question 2

Metaphor

Answer 2

Comparison, that states one object is something else

Question 3

Personification

Answer 3

Human characteristics to inanimate objects

Question 4

Apostrophe

Answer 4

Addressing an inanimate object as if it were alive

Question 5

Onomatopoeia

Answer 5

Sound of a word suits the meaning

Question 6

Alliteration

Answer 6

Two or more words starting with the same sound

Question 7

Symbol

Answer 7

One thing has more than one meaning, represents something else

Question 8

Metonymy

Answer 8

Referring to something else rather itself.” Pen is mightier than the sword”

Question 9

Synecdoche

Answer 9

A part representing a whole “ all hands on deck”

Question 10

Rhetorical

Answer 10

Question~ the answer is obvious

Question 11

Euphemism

Answer 11

Calling an unpleasant thing by a pleasant name

Question 12

Hyperbole

Answer 12

Deliberate exaggeration

Question 13

Understatement

Answer 13

Deliberate down playing of an opinion or fact

Question 14

Oxymoron

Answer 14

Contradicting ideas used to express a meaning

Question 15

Assonance

Answer 15

Repetition of vowel sounds In a line

Question 16

Consonance

Answer 16

Repetition of consonant sounds in a line

Question 17

Paradox

Answer 17

Apparently a statement which when explained makes sense

Question 18

Pun

Answer 18

Play on words

Question 19

Irony

Answer 19

a~ Dramatic: when the audience knows something a character doesn’t

b~ situational: something occurs which is the opposite of what’s expected

c~ poetic~ saying one thing while meaning something else