Literary Devices/Poetic Devices

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What is Personification?

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Endowing animals, ideas, abstractions, and inanimate objects with human characteristics.

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What is Onomatopoeia?

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The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.

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What is a Simile?

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A comparison between two seemingly unrelated things using 'like', 'as', or 'than'.

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What is Hyperbole?

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Conscious exaggeration used to produce a heightened or comic effect.

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What is Rhyme?

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Correspondence in the sounds of words within or at the end of lines.

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What is a Metaphor?

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A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two unrelated things without using 'like' or 'as'.

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What is Imagery?

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Descriptive language that appeals to the senses and creates mental images.

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What is Alliteration?

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The repetition of the same initial consonant sounds in a sequence of words.

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What is Assonance?

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The repetition of vowel sounds within nearby words.

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What is a Stanza?

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A grouped set of lines in a poem, often separated by a space from other stanzas.