Poetic Devices

Q2. A simile commonly uses “like” or “as”.

Q3. Imagery can appeal to the senses.

Q4. A metaphor can identify one thing as another directly.

Q5. Onomatopoeia imitates sounds.

Q6. Personification gives human qualities to non-human things.

Q7. A rhyme scheme shows the pattern of end rhymes.

Q8. A pun is always a type of rhyme.

Q9. Hyperbole is deliberate exaggeration.

Q10. A stanza is a group of lines in a poem.