Poetic Devices Review

Poetic Devices

Let's start by seeing what you know.

Answer the following questions without looking up the answers! We first need to see what you already know.

Match

Match the term to the example.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

Love is the north star to every ship.

You are like sunshine on a cloudy day.

From forth the fatal loins of the foes

O, woe is Joe! Though he tried, oh!

Hickory dickory dock, tick tock!

• Love is the north star to every ship.

• You are like sunshine on a cloudy day.

• From forth the fatal loins of the foes

• O, woe is Joe! Though he tried, oh!

• Hickory dickory dock, tick tock!

Match

Match the term to the example.

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

• Oxymoron

The Sun smiled down at me.

Boom! Pow! Bang! Clang! Pop!

I could eat a million burgers!

Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Die, die!

Pretty ugly

• The Sun smiled down at me.

• Boom! Pow! Bang! Clang! Pop!

• I could eat a million burgers!

• Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Die, die!

• Pretty ugly

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements contains paradox?

You may choose more than one answer.

• Break a leg!

• Death, you shall die!

• You should cut yourself some slack.

• You save money by spending it.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of antithesis?

• There they go, waging war one minute and promoting peace the next.

• All cruel leaders should be destroyed; we will have no part of their world.

• I will not say what should be said, for there are not words left within me.

Multiple Choice

A heart is a symbol of ______, and a 4-leaf clover is a symbol of _____.

• rage, unhappiness

• love, luck

• anger, joy

Multiple Choice

Imagery is created in writing through the use of...

• a team of writers.

• similes and metaphors only.

• a variety of unusual literary devices.

• vivid description.

Poetic Devices (to start with)

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

• Antithesis

• Symbol  

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Imagery

• Personification

Look up the devices you do not know. Get ready to answer the questions again on the next slides!

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

• Oxymoron

• Paradox

• Antithesis

• Symbol  

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

• Imagery

• Personification

Match

Match the term to the example.

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Consonance

Love is the north star to every ship.

You are like sunshine on a cloudy day.

From forth the fatal loins of the foes

O, woe is Joe! Though he tried, oh!

Hickory dickory dock, tick tock!

• Love is the north star to every ship.

• You are like sunshine on a cloudy day.

• From forth the fatal loins of the foes

• O, woe is Joe! Though he tried, oh!

• Hickory dickory dock, tick tock!

Match

Match the term to the example.

• Personification

• Onomatopoeia

• Hyperbole

• Repetition

• Oxymoron

The Sun smiled down at me.

Boom! Pow! Bang! Clang! Pop!

I could eat a million burgers!

Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Die, die!

Pretty ugly

• The Sun smiled down at me.

• Boom! Pow! Bang! Clang! Pop!

• I could eat a million burgers!

• Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Die, die!

• Pretty ugly

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of antithesis?

• There they go, waging war one minute and promoting peace the next.

• All cruel leaders should be destroyed; we will have no part of their world.

• I will not say what should be said, for there are not words left within me.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements contains paradox?

You may choose more than one answer.

• Break a leg!

• Death, you shall die!

• You should cut yourself some slack.

• You save money by spending it.

Multiple Choice

A heart is a symbol of ______, and a 4-leaf clover is a symbol of _____.

• rage, unhappiness

• love, luck

• anger, joy

Multiple Choice

Imagery is created in writing through the use of...

• a team of writers.

• similes and metaphors only.

• a variety of unusual literary devices.

• vivid description.