Relier Pairs LIT Poetry MatchingVersion en ligne Match the items par Rebecca Morales 1 Irony 2 Richard Gatling's invention 3 A.G. Bell's Invention 4 Eli Whitney's Invention 5 Light Diction 6 The invention of the Wright Brothers 7 Allusion 8 Assonance 9 What is the main theme of the poem? 10 What part of the poem contains the informal, conversational tone that interrupts the sestet pattern? 11 Alliteration 12 Satire the asides often found in poetry that attempts to be humorous the use of irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of politics and other issues a contrast between expectations for a situation and what is reality. single-purpose inventions are more useful in daily life than elaborate ones repetition of a vowel sound a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical or political significance two or more words in a phrase or line of poetry share the same beginning consonant sound