Poetic Devices Review

Repetition of the same vowel sound- what device is this?

• allusion

• consonance

• assonance

• oxymoron

What device is used in these lines?

• Personification

• Oxymoron

• Hyperbole

• Apostrophe

Which poetic line(s) do(es) not use metaphor?

• "I am a hearth of spiders these days: a nest of trying."

• "But mostly we’re forgetting we’re dead stars too"

• "My heart is like a rainbow shell/ That paddles in a halcyon sea"

• "Every seed is a heart, every heart/ a minefield"

A writer's attitude towards his/her subject is called

A rhetorical question requires an answer when posed

• True

• False

What device is being used?

Two consecutive, often rhymed lines of poetry that work together as a unit to make a point

• meter

• rhythm

• end rhyme

• couplet

What devices are being used in these lines? (hint: more than one)

• allusion

• personification

• simile

• alliteration

____ is the feeling created in the reader by the literary work

A group of lines forming a unit in a poem

• line

• meter

• stanza

• rhyme scheme