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Poetic Devices
8-2 Poetic Devices Quiz
Question | Answer |
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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 |