The repetition of a letter sound at the beginning of two (or more) words.
e.g. Deep into the depths of darkness I descended…
Poetic Techniques
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10th Grade - University
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The repetition of a letter sound at the beginning of two (or more) words.
e.g. Deep into the depths of darkness I descended…
assonance
alliteration
simile
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When an object/colour/image is used to represent an idea.
e.g. A rose might signify love; the colour black might represent death; a dove is an image of peace.
symbolism
juxtaposition
anaphora
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When you portray a person, place, thing, or an action as being something else, even though it is not actually that “something else.”
e.g. This assignment is a breeze.
His words were daggers in my heart.
free verse
metaphor
onomatopoeia
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A repetition of hissing sounds in two (or more) words.
e.g. Sing a song of sixpence.
Conspiring cells of summer shells.
sibilance
allusion
rhyme
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When a line in a poem moves to another line without a punctuation mark in between.
e.g. Before the sunrise
a chain of red clouds rise
and all else is in the darkness.
symbolism
metaphor
enjambment
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When a comparison is made between two things.
e.g. It was as cold as a snowy winter’s eve.
She ran, like a bullet from a gun, towards the finish line.
juxtaposition
rhythm
simile
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A poem that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm, and does not have a regular rhyme scheme.
e.g. Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall,
she walks
by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
dying.
And round about there is a rabble
Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor.
They shall inherit the earth.
In her is the end of breeding. Her boredom is exquisite and excessive
and there will be no end for the children of the universe.
rhyme
free verse
alliteration
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