Literary Devices
Smile
What is a comparison of one thing with another thing?
Rhyme
What is the correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry?
I measure every Grief I meet
With narrow, probing, eyes –
I wonder if It weighs like Mine –
Or has n easier size
I Measure Every Grief I Meet By Emily Dickinson
Sadness
Under my window, a clean rasping sound
When the spade sinks into gravelly ground
End Rhyme
Literal, Figurative, Interpretive
What are the different types of meaning?
Anaphora
What is repetition at the beginning?
Rhythm
What are the stressed and unstressed syllables?
Sweet sleep with soft down.
Weave thy brows an infant crown.
Sweet sleep Angel mild,
Hover o'er my happy child.
Sweet smiles in the night,
Hover over my delight.
Sweet smiles Mothers smiles,
All the livelong night beguiles.
A cradle song by William Blake
Happy, Comfort
Iambic pentameter
unstressed/stressed
14 lines, strict rhyme scheme, and a twist?
What is a sonnet?
Alliteration
What is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words?
Personification
What is the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form?
Through nights like this one, I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.
Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her.
To feel that I have lost her.
pablo neruda tonight i can write
Partake the fire divine that burns,
In Milton, Pope, and Scottish Burns,
Who sang his native braes and burns
is best known for their poetry and short stories, particularly their tales of mystery and known as the master of macabre.
Edgar Allan Poe
Oxymoron
What is a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction?
Onomatopoeia
What is the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named?
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
A dream within a dream-by Edgar Allan Poe
Sadness
Spondee
Stressed/Stressed
What the author feels towards the subject, what emotion you feel as you read the poem?
Metaphor
What is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable?
Haiku
What is a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world?
I’ve tried the new moon tilted in the air
Above a hazy tree-and-farmhouse cluster
As you might try a jewel in your hair.
I’ve tried it fine with little breadth of luster,
Alone, or in one ornament combining
With one first-water star almost as shining.
I put it shining anywhere I please.
By walking slowly on some evening later,
I’ve pulled it from a crate of crooked trees,
And brought it over glossy water, greater,
And dropped it in, and seen the image wallow,
The color run, all sorts of wonder follow.
The Freedom of the Moon by Robert Frost
Hope, Change
A Swelling of the Ground—
The Roof was scarcely visible—
The Cornice—in the Ground
and
What is Trochee
What is Identical Rhyme and
Stressed/Unstressed
element in a poem that sparks the senses. Any of the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell) can be how we respond to what a poet writes.
Imagery