Literary Devices and Poetry

What is a metaphor?

• Comparing two unlike things without using like or as

• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

• The naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds

• Giving a non-human object human traits or characteristics

What is a simile?

• Comparing two unlike things without using like or as

• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

• The naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds

• Giving a non-human object human traits or characteristics

What is onomatopoeia?

• The naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds

• An exaggeration used to emphasize an emotion or description.

• The exact opposite of what you expect to happen

• Commonly used expression that has a different meaning from its literal meaning

What is personification?

• Giving a non-human object human traits or characteristics

• An exaggeration used to emphasize an emotion or description.

• The exact opposite of what you expect to happen

• Commonly used expression that has a different meaning from its literal meaning

What is hyperbole?

• An exaggeration used to emphasize an emotion or description.

• The exact opposite of what you expect to happen

• Commonly used expression that has a different meaning from its literal meaning

• The same sound repeating at the beginning of words

What is irony?

• The exact opposite of what you expect to happen

• Commonly used expression that has a different meaning from its literal meaning

• The same sound repeating at the beginning of words

• A group of lines

What is an idiom?

• Commonly used expression that has a different meaning from its literal meaning

• The same sound repeating at the beginning of words

• A group of lines

• A 14 line poem

What is alliteration?

• The same sound repeating at the beginning of words

• A group of lines

• A 14 line poem

• A 19 line poem featuring five tercets and a quatrain

What is a sonnet?

• A 14 line poem

• A 19 line poem featuring five tercets and a quatrain

• The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

• A group of lines

What is a villanelle?

• A 19 line poem featuring five tercets and a quatrain

• A 14 line poem

• The ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem or verse

• A group of lines