Linguistic Devices and R+J Review

When words in a line of poetry start with the same consonant or consonant sound, it is called

• assonance

• repetition

• alliteration

• rhythm

When a writer says the same word over again for rhythm or emphasis, it is called

• rhythm

• repetition

• rhetorical question

• metre

A comparison between two things using the words 'like' or 'as' is called a

• foil

• direct comparison

• simile

• figurative language

• metaphor

When a speaker uses 'you' in their statements, this persuasive strategy is BEST identified as

• pronouns

• direct address

• imperative

• rhetoric

Name the linguistic or poetic device which BEST describes these lines from Romeo and Juliet:

THE PRINCE: [...] Will they not hear? What, ho! you men

• Exclamative

• Rhetorical Question

• Pronouns

• Exasperation

When a speaker uses the word 'must' or starts sentences with verbs like 'do' or 'act,' as in 'act now,' this persuasive strategy is BEST identified as

• order

• instructions

• sequence

• imperative

An indirect comparison between two things using verbs or 'is/are' is called a

• simile

• metaphor

• figurative language

• comparison

Name the linguistic or poetic device which BEST describes these lines from Romeo and Juliet:

LORD CAPULET: Out, you green-sickness carrion! out, you baggage!

You tallow-face!

• Name-calling

• Metaphor

• Imperative

• Being a baddie

Giving human qualities to objects is a poetic device called

• humanisation

• empathy

• personification

• pathetic fallacy

• emotive language

Giving human qualities to the weather, the elements, or natural processes is called

• metaphor

• pathetic fallacy

• emotive language

• superstition