Poetry Terms

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If a poet decides to use a major exaggeration in a poem, we might call it . . .

When a fairly simple object is used to represent a much more complex idea, it is called . . .

What sound device uses the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of several words in a line of poetry?

If a poem has a rhyme scheme of . . . aabccb . . . which lines rhyme with one another?

I'm burning the midnight oil. This phrase is an example of what?

What do we call the unique voice that delivers the message of a poem?

What sound device is used to created words for the sounds and noises that the poet wants the audience to hear?

When a particular comparison is brought up again and again throughout an entire work, it is called . . .