Poetic Techniques

Question 1

ONOMATOPOEIA

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The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
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Sizzle, Clink, Bang.

Question 2

ALLITERATION

Answer 2

The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
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Six singing seals swam south.

Question 3

OXYMORON

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a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
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Proud to be humble.

Question 4

REPETITION

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Repetition is a literary device that repeats the same words or phrases a few times to make an idea clearer. 
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The cat sat down
The cat licked his paw
The cat went to sleep.

Question 5

SIMILIE

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a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind.
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Her heart was cold like snow.

Question 6

METAPHOR

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A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
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The world is a stage.

Question 7

SIBILANCE

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A more specific type of alliteration that relies on the repetition of soft consonant sounds in words to create a wooshing or hissing sound in the writing.
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She sells sea shells by the sea shore

Question 8

PERSONIFICATION

Answer 8

The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
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The sea called to me.

Question 9

FREE VERSE

Answer 9

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular rhythm.
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http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-free-verse-poems.html

Question 10

ENJAMBMENT

Answer 10

The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza.
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http://www.softschools.com/examples/grammar/enjambment

Question 11

ASSONANCE

Answer 11

Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words, arising particularly from the rhyming of two or more stressed vowels, but not consonants.
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Killed, cold, culled.

Question 12

IMAGERY

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Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work.
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The lush green grass waved in the cold, sharp wind.

Question 13

INTERNAL RHYME

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A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Question 14

SYMBOLISM

Answer 14

An artistic and poetic movement or style using symbolic images and indirect suggestion to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind.
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“All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players;they have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts,”

Question 15

PATHOS

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A quality that evokes pity or sadness.
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Question 16

TONE

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The general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing, situation.
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“What the hell is going on here?”