Poetic Devices
When two or more words start with the same consonant sound are used to emphasize an idea or action and create an emotional response.
Alliteration
This is a form of devotion for another person, nature or yourself.
Love
Words that are sounds
Onomatopoeia
"Sadness is as happy as laughter..."
"as" - simile
Name one fairy and their role in the play
Oberon
Titania
Puck
The author's use of description and vivid language which deepens the reader's understanding of the work because the senses have been appealed to.
Imagery
Usually uses language that does not directly state this but it describes it. It is a way to deal with the emotions that come with it.
Death
Human characteristic given to a non-human entity
Personification
"boom!"
"pow!"
"humming like a cicada.."
Onomatopoeia
Name all the couples at the end of the story.
Hermia-Lysander
Helena-Demetrius
Juxtaposition
Hurt feelings helps allow for this theme to come alive in poetry.
Heartbreak
Perfect rhymes or slant rhymes are examples of what in poetry?
Rhyme
Personification
Name the play within the play
Pyramus and Thisbe
Uses IS
Metaphor
Where it is deeply considering your own place in the world, the impact (or lack thereof) you think you were having, who you want to become, or any way of analyzing life.
Identity/Self
Uses LIKE or AS
Simile
Juxtaposition
Who is chosen to play the lion in the play within the play?
Snug
Seeing words, phrases, lines, or even full verses multiple times in a poem.
Repetition
It comes in many forms and can be seen through natural, physical, human, in spirit or action, etc.
Beauty
Represents a main idea that the poem is trying to portray
"She is the sun in my eyes.."
Metaphor
Which man does Hermia's father want her to marry?
Demetrius