8-2 Poetic Devices Quiz
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| Alliteration | the repetition of an initial consonant sound within a line of poetry |
| Allusion | reference to a mythological, Biblical, or historical person or event |
| Anthropomorphism | giving human traits to animals |
| Assonance | repitition of vowel sounds within a line of poetry |
| Imagery | the collection of symbols, similies, or metaphors in literature that form an image in the reader's mind |
| Metaphor | a direct comparison that imaginatively identifies one object with another; a comparison between objects or ideas |
| Onomatopoeia | a word that imitates the sound it represents |
| Personification | the use of human traits in describing nonliving things |
| Rhyme | a correspondence of sounds in two or more words which follows a distict pattern |
| Simile | a creative comparison of two unlike objects or ideas using the words like or as |
| Symbolism | the use of an object to represent or suggest another |
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