Literary Devices and Their Examples

The video tutorial covers various poetry terms and figurative language, including imagery devices like simile, metaphor, and personification. It explains sound devices such as alliteration, onomatopoeia, and different types of rhyme. Miscellaneous devices like hyperboles, irony, and paradox are also discussed. The tutorial concludes with other poetic terms, including slant rhyme, anaphora, epistrophe, and idioms.

What is the primary focus of the introduction section?

• Definitions of poetry terms

• Imagery in literature

• Examples of similes

• Sound devices in poetry

Which of the following is NOT an imagery device?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

A simile is a comparison using which words?

• As or than

• Like or than

• Than or as

• Like or as

Which example best illustrates a metaphor?

• Lisa looks like a fox.

• Bob is a hungry wolf.

• Sue smells like a rose.

• Bob is as hungry as a wolf.

Personification involves giving human qualities to what?

• Nonhuman things or ideas

• Animals

• Plants

• Inanimate objects

What is the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words called?

• Onomatopoeia

• Assonance

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

Which sound device imitates the sounds they refer to?

• Assonance

• Rhyme

• Alliteration

• Onomatopoeia

What is internal rhyme?

• Rhyme at the end of lines

• Rhyme between stanzas

• Rhyme within a line

• Rhyme at the beginning of lines

Eye rhyme involves words that look like they rhyme but do not. Which of the following is an example?

• Flow and how

• Hill and full

• Stay and today

• Man and mean

What is a hyperbole?

• A type of rhyme

• A form of irony

• An obvious exaggeration

• A type of metaphor