Poetrypalooza
A literary device characterized by identical or similar sounds at the end of words.
What is rhyme?
The act of doing or saying something again.
What is repetition?
A person, place, thing or event that figuratively represents or stands for something else; often the thing or idea represented is more abstract and general, and this thing is more concrete and particular.
What is a symbol?
Word order: the way words are put together for form phrases, clauses, and sentences.
What is syntax?
A form of extreme hyperbole where the imagined event is totally impossible. Example: "When pigs fly past a frozen hell."
What is Adynaton?
The basic rhythmic structure of a line within a poem. It is often measured by the number of syllables and the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is meter?
The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of adjacent pr nearby words to emphasize those words and their associations or representations.
What is alliteration?
Sensory language designed to evoke the sight, sound, taste, touch, or smell associated with an object, feeling, or idea. Many students like to write about this by saying, "The author paints a vivid picture..." (Don't do that, btw).
What is imagery?
A purposeful reference to something outside the text, such as an actual person, place, event, or other work of literature
What is an allusion?
A figure of speech where you name something using a word closely linked to it instead of its actual name. Ex. "All Hollywood cares about is making money", where Hollywood actually stands for the American film industry.
What is metonymy?
A poem made up of fourteen lines; traditionally about love or mortality. Shakespeare's traditionally end in a rhyming couplet
What is a sonnet?
A repeated line, stanza, or chorus that recurs throughout a poem or song.
What is a refrain?
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is personification?
A recurring device, formula, or situation within a literary work. So, for example, if the same symbols shows up throughout the book, it is an example of this.
What is a motif?
A figure of speech where part of something stands for the whole. Ex. "I got a new set of wheels", where "wheels" actually stands for the car.
What is a synecdoche?
A line of poetry that contains or concludes a complete clause and often ends with terminal punctuation.
What is an end-stopped line?
The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines.
What is anaphora?
Uses the word, "like" or "as" to liken two objects or concepts to each other to transfer the traits or qualities of one to the other.
What is a simile?
The placement of contrasting ideas or images side by side to highlight their differences and create contrast, tension, or emphasis
What is juxtaposition?
Changing one part of speech into another, like using a noun as a verb. Example: "The math ain't mathing."
What is Anthimeria?
The continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line to the next without terminal punctuation.
What is enjambment?
The repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive lines.
What is epistrophe?
A direct comparison between two unlike things that equates one with the other.
What is a metaphor?
A situation or statement characterized by a significant difference what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant
What is irony?
A surprise ending to a sentence that forces the reader to rethink the first part. Example: "I expected to find peace, but I found my teacher."
What is Paraprosdokian?