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What is a golden ring, a dove, an olive branch in literature

symbol

What is assonance?

When there is the repetition of vowel sounds.

What poetic device is "smothered by smog, the city silently slept."

alliteration

What literary device is "The maple sheds its clothing of green/Choosing red for the new season"

Personification

What is called when a figure of speech references an earlier work, as in the Bible or Mythology.

Allusion

What literary device is "His loudness echoed more than an elephant's trumpet."

Hyperbole

What literary term is "I wandered lonely as a cloud"

Simile

What poetic device is "She weeps, not heading our pleas."

assonance

What is the language evoking the five senses called

Imagery

What is sense or feeling a reader gets from the poem called

mood

What is a comparison of two disparate things called?

Metaphor

What is alliteration?

When the initial or first sound of a word is repeated

What literary term is "Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire"

Oxymorons

What literary term is "And I chose the one less traveled by" (the road)

Metaphor

What is the attitude of the speaker toward his subject called?

tone