Alliteration vs Onomatopoeia

Poetic devices and their intended effects

Multiple Choice

'Come and clean the chaos in your closet,' is an example of

• Personification

• Hyperbole

• Alliteration

• Simile

​Alliteration

​Regains readers' attention through repetition of a consonant sound at the start of a series of words.

Alliteration can: emphasize words, link lines, unify stanzas (or the poem as a whole) and enhances flow of poem.

The sound being repeated also has differing effects on the reader.

What is the effect of repeating the sound 'p' in Peter's puppy's powerful paws compared to the 'd' sound in dull, dreary day?

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Multiple Choice

Read the following phrase: 'Trees swaying in the sweltering sun.'

What technique is found here?

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Personification

• Hyperbole

Multiple Select

Read the following phrase: 'Trees swaying in the sweltering sun.'

Highlight all correct answers.

• The alliteration of "swaying in the sweltering sun" draws attention to the heat, by repeating the drawn out, soft 's' sound.

• The alliteration of "swaying in the sweltering sun" showcases v

• The assonance of "swaying in the sweltering sun" highlights the hot, draining nature of the weather.

• The alliteration of "swaying in the sweltering sun" highlights the hot, draining nature of the weather.

Multiple Choice

In which poetic device are human qualities and actions attributed to an inanimate object.

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification

• Simile

​Personification

​The poetic device in which human qualities and actions are attributed to an inanimate object.

Personification can make descriptions of non-human entities more vivid, or can help readers understand, sympathize with, or react emotionally to non-human characters.​

Compare a window that is bruised, tired, and broken ​to a smashed window.

Which evokes more emotion?​

Multiple Choice

'The sun is a sparkling diamond,' is an example of

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

• hyperbole

Multiple Choice

They fought like cats and dogs.

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

• personification

​Similes and Metaphors

​What is the difference?

Represent an image by making a comparison, develop themes, highlight similarities between one thing and another, influence the audience's view by presenting an image, enhances imagery, creative to use figurative language instead of just literal language.

Multiple Choice

Use of over-exaggeration to create emphasis or humour is

• metaphor

• personification

• hyperbole

• simile

Multiple Choice

Which of these is an example of hyperbole?

• Kid, you'll move mountains!
• You've got brains in your head, you've got feet in your shoes...
• You'll find the bright places where boom bands are playing!
• You'll find the high flyers who fly to great heights!

​Hyperbole

​Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

Conveys the poet or protagonist's strength of feeling, enhances the poem's mood.​

Example:​

His brain is the size of a pea.​

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Multiple Choice

Boom!

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• onomatopoeia

​Onomatopoeia

​A figure of speech in which the sound of a word imitates what it is describing

Appeals to the audience's sense of hearing, enhances imagery of poem, develops an image by creating a sound word.​

Can you think of any examples?​

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Rhyming Couplets

​A couplet is a pair of lines in a verse. Typically, they rhyme and have the same meter or rhythm.

Emphasises two lines, enables the poet to develop a theme or mood more clearly, can serve like the punchline to a riddle or the answer to a problem.

Rhyming couplets can also add to the mood and tone of a poem. For example, consider if the ​rhyme makes the poem more playful.

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​Always think about the effect of poetic devices

As we go through the next questions, consider the possible effects on the readers.​

Multiple Choice

If you are using figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas to appeal to your reader's senses, your poetry is full of...

• couplets

• imagery

• a sonnet

• idioms

Multiple Choice

Using symbols to represent ideas or qualities

• personification
• symbolism
• hyperbole
• alliteration

Multiple Choice

Dove = Peace would be an example of...

• personification
• metaphor
• alliteration
• symbolism

Multiple Choice

The use of sensory details that appeal to one or more of the five senses.

• imagery

• onomatopoeia

• meter

• figurative language

Multiple Choice

A brief reference to a famous historical figure or event, like from a movie or a book. 

• Alliteration 
• Hyperbole 
• Assonance 
• Allusion

Multiple Choice

' In the dark morning, the man laughed sadly.' This is an example of

• personification

• metaphor

• oxymoron

• simile

Multiple Choice

Which Question Is Rhetorical ?

• "Do you want to teach the class today?"

• "Can I come over after school?"

• "Would you like something to drink?"

• "May I use the Restroom?"