Poetic Elements

Alliteration is:

• The repetition of the same initial sound or group of sounds.

• The non-repetition of the same sound or group of sounds.

• The littering of a nation.

• The repetition of the ending sounds in a phrase.

Hyperbole is:

• Pronounced hyper-bowl.

• A gross understatement.

• An incredibly dramatic exaggeration.

• A completely truthful statement.

An idiom is an:

• expression that has a meaning apart from its literal words.

• expression that focuses on the weather.

• expression that should be taken literally.

Irony is a literary device that shows:

• Stranger Things at 7pm every night.

• the similarities between words.

• the difference between an author's poems.

• the difference between what is expected and what actually occurs.

Irony includes:

• dramatic irony (the audience knows what a character doesn't)

• verbal irony (contradictions of what is said)

• situational irony (based on a specific situation)

• all of the above.

Onomatopoeia uses words to:

• describe or imitate a sound made by an action.

• disprove a theory.

• repair broken relationships.

• give human characteristics to non-human objects.

An example of an oxymoron could be:

• jumbo shrimp

• alone together

• definitely maybe

• all of the above

Personification is a figure of speech in which:

• a person can seem more personable.

• human characteristics are given to non-human things.

• a sound is imitated or described.

• non-human things come alive.

A pun is known as:

• a boring use of language.

• Shakespeare's baby.

• a play on words.

• using the literal meaning of words.

A metaphor makes a comparison between two unlike things using:

• "like" or "as"

• a direct comparison

• powerpoint to highlight the similarities

• "which" or "who" or "when"