Poetic Devices

Question 1

Simile

Answer 1

A comparison using like, as, or than

Question 2

Metaphor

Answer 2

A comparison. It states that one object is something else

Question 3

Personification

Answer 3

Giving life/human characteristics to an inanimate object

Question 4

Apostrophe

Answer 4

Addressing directly an inanimate object as if it were alive or an absent person as if he or she were present

Question 5

Onomatopoeia

Answer 5

The sound of a word suits the meaning

Question 6

Alliteration

Answer 6

Two or more consecutive words, each starting with the same sound

Question 7

Symbol

Answer 7

When one thing has more than one meaning, or represents something else

Question 8

Metonymy

Answer 8

Referring to the accompaniment of a thing rather than the thing itself. “The pen is mightier than the sword”

Question 9

Synecdoche

Answer 9

Where a part is used to represent the whole, “All hands on deck”

Question 10

Rhetorical

Answer 10

Question; asking in such a way that the answer, being obvious, is not required

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

The deliberate downplaying of some fact or opinion

Question 14

Oxymoron

Answer 14

Contradicting ideas used to express one 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 contradictory statement which, when explained, makes logical sense

Question 18

Pun

Answer 18

A play on words

Question 19

The 3 types of irony:

Answer 19

Dramatic, Situational, Poetic

Question 20

Dramatic irony

Answer 20

Where the audience knows something a character does not

Question 21

Situational irony

Answer 21

Where something occurs which is the opposite of what is expected

Question 22

Poetic irony

Answer 22

Saying one thing while meaning something else