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