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WorksheetsVocabulary - Poetic Devices - 12/6/24
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
A word for a sound that reproduces the sound.
alliteration
onomatopoeia
ominous
rhyme
A repetition of similar sounds in two or more words.
rhyme
mood
onomatopoeia
idiom
Repetition of the same beginning sound in two or more words.
stanza
exact rhyme
relevancy
alliteration
A poetic paragraph. There are usually double spaces between these.
approximate rhyme
line
shutter
stanza
These make up the stanzas in the poem. They are not necessarily sentences.
ominous
phrases
syllables
lines
The same middle AND end sounds in two or more words.
exact rhyme
melancholy
ebony
approximate rhyme
Same middle OR end sounds in two or more words.
alliteration
peering
approximate rhyme
exact rhyme
The feeling or atmosphere that a writer is trying to create in the reader's mind (e.g.: calm, anxiety, joy, anger, fear, etc.).
bleak
mood
ghastly
irony
A narrator that cannot be trusted to tell the story accurately. These narrators may mislead readers, either on purpose or unintentionally.
omniscient narrator
unreliable narrator
limited narrator
commentator
Not hopeful or encouraging; depressing; dark & barren.
bleak
optimistic
idyllic
complacent
To look carefully & steadily at something or someone.
shutter
bleak
peer
censor
A wooden cover on the outside of a window. They usually come in pairs & are hung like doors on hinges.
bust
ghastly
stanza
shutter
A very dark black color with undertones of brown.
chartreuse
ebony
eggshell
pallid
A sculpture of a person's head, neck, & partial shoulders & chest.
bust
seraphim
peer
stanza
Something that worries you because it makes you think something bad is going to happen; threatening or menacing.
ghastly
ominous
bleak
relevancy
