Poetic techniques

Question 1

Onomatopoeia

Answer 1

Words that sound the same as look and example of this buzz

Question 2

Alliteration

Answer 2

Words that start with the same letter in the same sentence next to each other.for example Sally’s silly song

Question 3

Hyperbole

Answer 3

a phrase that is over exaggerated for example i’m So hungry I could eat a horse

Question 4

Simile

Answer 4

A word that is described as like something

For example the plate shines like a diamond

Question 5

Metaphor

Answer 5

It is saying that something is something else

For example she stares with eyes of stone

Question 6

Enjambent

Answer 6

Where the line in a stanza flows in to the next line with out a breath

Question 7

Rhyming couplets

Answer 7

Where to to words rhyme in two different lines. For example the cow said moo and the ghost went boo

Question 8

Personification

Answer 8

Where you give a object human quality s

The wind whistled through my sails

Question 9

Repetition

Answer 9

Where a word or line is repeated
For example I must not forget to do my homework
I must not forget to do my homework
But I did

Question 10

Imagery

Answer 10

Repetition of a word to add emphasis

It was a bad bad night