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  • "I knew that snake was my own sweet dad" is an example of...
    metaphor
  • "I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore" is an example of...
    metaphor
  • . The line "Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly" is an example of what poetic device?
    Metaphor
  • The title "Fame is a Fickle Food" is an example of
    Alliteration
  • Imagery in "A motorcycle with engine running' as it lay on its side, ticking over" stimulates what sense?
    sound/hearing
  • What is the primary difference between a poem's tone and its mood?
    The tone is the attitude of the poem and the mood is how we as a reader feel
  • Sometimes tone in a poem can shift: True or False
    True!
  • In a poem about the sea, a whale might be used to represent a vast, hidden knowledge. The whale in this context is an example of what?
    Hyperbole
    Symbolism
    Personification
    Imagery
  • "Wearing a warning sign wait til the world is mine" is an example of...
    Alliteration
  • "How he teeters, skitters, tingles, teases, taunts them like an ecstatic bird" has what three poetic devices?
    Simile, imagery and alliteration
    metaphor, simile and onomatopoeia
    Imagery, onomatopoeia, and alliteration
    Simile, personification, and imagery
  • The phrase "The moon peeked over the clouds" uses which literary device?
    Personifcation
  • Name one of the two sound devices associated with repetition in the following lines: "If we merge mercy with might, and might with right, then love becomes our legacy"
    alliteration and assonance
  • Which poetic device is used in the line: "A whisper of a roar"?
    Oxymoron
    Metaphor
    Simile
    Imagery
  • What would be a single row of words in a poem called?
    A line of poetry
  • When the poet uses the same word, phrase or sound on purpose
    Repetition
  • The repetition of similar vowel sounds within a line of poetry, as in the phrase “prowling the foul, black land,” is called...
    Hyperbole
    Assonance
    Simile
    Alliteration
  • "I looked at him and I was scared to death" is an example of which poetic device?
    Idiom
  • A group of lines in a poem
    A stanza
  • What type of language is used when a poet uses a lot of images
    Cool Language
    Vivid Language
    Poetic Language
    Metaphorical Language
  • The entire poem "Hope is the thing with feathers" compares hope to a bird, so it is an example of...
    Metaphor (Extended Metaphor)