Poetry

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

Repeated sound of the first consansant in a series of multiple words.
Eg
Peter piper pickled a pickled pepper.

Question 2

Assonance

Answer 2

Repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming.
Eg
The rain in Spain falls on my window pane and drives me insane.

Question 3

Consonance

Answer 3

Repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession.
Eg
Pickled pickles

Question 4

Repetition

Answer 4

Literary device that repeats the same words of phrases to make ideas clearer.
Eg
Don’t go to school tomorrow
Don’t go to school tomorrow

Question 5

Hyperbole

Answer 5

An expression in which there is extreme exaggeration.

Eg
I died from embarrassment

Question 6

Onomatopoeia

Answer 6

The formation of a word a sound associated with it.
Eg
The car SMASHED into the wall

Question 7

Pun

Answer 7

A play on words for added humour.
Eg
The billy goat rammed the bull dancer.

Question 8

Simile

Answer 8

A figure of speech that compares two things.
Eg
As fast a cheetah

Question 9

Metaphor

Answer 9

An expression that describes a person or thing by referring to something with similar characteristics.
Eg
He is a walking encyclopedia

Question 10

Personification

Answer 10

An expression where you give an object human characteristics.
Eg
The trees are whispering.