LITERARY DEVICES IN POETRY WELL FULLY EXPLAINED #12
Alliteration - correct answer repetition of BEGINNING CONSONANT sounds
Exs:
Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the
bitter butter better.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
The nose knows.
Gnus never know pneumonia
Assonance - correct answer the repetition of vowel sounds
Exs:
"Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dark fox gone to ground"
- Pink Floyd
"It's hot and it's monotonous."
- Sondheim
"The crumbling thunder of seas"
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Connotation - correct answer the implied or symbolic meaning of a word
Consonance - correct answer the repetition of FINAL CONSONANT sounds
Exs:
Struck the peak of bad luck.
First and last
Odds and ends
Short and sweet
Couplet - correct answer two paired lines of rhymed verse
Denotation - correct answer the literal meaning of a word; a dictionary definition
Figure of speech - correct answer common devices used by a writer to convey a
particular image
Alliteration - correct answer repetition of BEGINNING CONSONANT sounds
Exs:
Betty bought butter but the butter was bitter, so Betty bought better butter to make the
bitter butter better.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
The nose knows.
Gnus never know pneumonia
Assonance - correct answer the repetition of vowel sounds
Exs:
"Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dark fox gone to ground"
- Pink Floyd
"It's hot and it's monotonous."
- Sondheim
"The crumbling thunder of seas"
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Connotation - correct answer the implied or symbolic meaning of a word
Consonance - correct answer the repetition of FINAL CONSONANT sounds
Exs:
Struck the peak of bad luck.
First and last
Odds and ends
Short and sweet
Couplet - correct answer two paired lines of rhymed verse
Denotation - correct answer the literal meaning of a word; a dictionary definition
Figure of speech - correct answer common devices used by a writer to convey a
particular image
