Poetic Devices
Name: ______________________ Date: ____________
Write the letter of the matching definition next to each term.
1. Imagery
A. Extravagant exaggeration
2. Stanza
B. Using words that imitate the sound they denote
3. Symbol
C. A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
4. Hyperbole
D. The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words
5. Metaphor
E. An arbitrary sign that has acquired a conventional significance
6. Rhyme
F. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds
7. Simile
G. The ability to form mental ___ of things or events
8. Alliteration
H. Correspondence in the sounds of two or more lines
9. Assonance
I. A ___ who represents an abstract quality
10. Personification
J. A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally
11. Onomatopoeia
K. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse