Poetic Devices
A Haiku
A Japanese form of poetry that consists of 3 lines and 17 syllables, formed in a 5 7 5 pattern.
The Poet who wrote "Birches"
Robert Frost
Personification
The act of giving human characteristics to non-human things/concepts.
My Favorite poet
Mary Oliver
A Stanza
A leader of the Harlem Renaissance, who wrote the poem "Dreams".
Langston Hughes
The visual description of something used in literature.
Connotation vs Denotation
Connotation is the implication a word has.
EX: "Shut up!" and "Please be quiet" have the same denotation, but not connotation.
Iambic Pentameter
A line written with 5 Iambs
Emily Dickinson
Hyperbole
An extreme exaggeration of something for emphasis.
Amanda Gorman
She gave the inaugural speech for president Joe Biden called "The Hill We Climb"
Scansion
The author of the line "That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."
Walt Whitman
Metaphor
Comparing something AS something else for effect, or to explain something.
Pastoral
An old mode of poetry/literature, romanticizing rural/shepherd life, focusing on nature, and a simple way of living.
A Shakespearean Sonnet
3 four-lined stanzas and a couplet written in Iambic Pentameter, with the rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg.
The name of the poet who wrote "Letters To A Young Poet" (First, Middle, and Last)
Rainer Maria Rilke.
Ideophones
A word that sounds like what it is. Different from an onomatopoeia.
EX, the word sparkle.
The vowels and their rules.
a e i o u are always vowels, and y and w are vowels IF they don't precede a vowel in the same syllable, such in the word "Newly"