Poetic Techniques

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

A comparison that suggests one thing is the same as another
All poems
Pants flapping round legpoles
like denim flags

Question 2

Hyperbole

Answer 2

Exaggeration
The head popped a head round a doorway

And tossed in a grenade

Question 3

Personification

Answer 3

A type of metaphor in which distinctive human characteristics ( honesty emotion)are given to an animal object or idea

Question 4

End Rhyme

Answer 4

A rhyme between the last word of syllable of one line of poetry with the last syllable or word of another line
It struck with deadly aim
Then pulling out a shot gun
He continued with his game

Question 5

Onomatopoeia

Answer 5

Words that Imitate sounds like buzz,hiss clang any word whose sound is suggestive of its meaning
They bobbed and shone till he sluiced

But their tiny din

Question 6

Imagery

Answer 6

Words in literary work that are described to create images in your mind auditory images tactile images and visual Images

Question 7

Repetition

Answer 7

The repetition of a sound, syllables words , phrases lines and sound patterns

Question 8

Rhythm

Answer 8

A musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of words and phrases

Question 9

Assonance

Answer 9

The relatively close use of the Same or similar vowel sounds but with different consonants

Question 10

Similes

Answer 10

A comparison that say one thing is like another using words LIKE or AS was to equate to the two things
With Eyes as wide as football pools
Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters