Sound Devices
Boom! Zip! Ching!
A word that represents the sound it makes...
ONOMATOPOEIA
Wording that means the opposite of what is said
Verbal Irony
DRAMATIC IRONY
When the audience knows something the reader does not...
An example of a two-syllable FOOT in poetry...
IAMB, TROCHEE, PYRRHIC, or SPONDEE
"Two roads diverged into a wood..."
Robert Frost
When the end sounds of words match, we say they _______.
RHYME
The flowers waved to me in greeting.
Personification (or perhaps Anthropomorphism)
When an occurrence is opposite to what we expect, such as when a crook donates all of the stolen items to Goodwill.
Situational irony
An example of a three-syllable FOOT in poetry...
ANAPEST, DACTYL, AMPHIBRACH
"What will you do with your one wild and precious life?"
Mary Oliver
Repetition of beginning word sounds is ______.
ALLITERATION
The rails will take me through the night and right to your door. (This is a part of a thing representing the whole.)
Synecdoche
Hinting at what will happen later...
FORESHADOWING
A line of poetry with five feet is called ________.
PENTAMETER
"Twas brillig and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimble in the wabe..."
Lewis Carroll
When internal vowel sounds match in nearby words, such as "car" and "heart," we call that _________.
ASSONANCE
The "swan-road" in Beowulf
Kenning
Consistent repetition of a group of words, such as "Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore!'" or a chorus in a song...
REFRAIN
A five-ling poem with this METER:3 ANAPESTS; 3 ANAPESTS; 2 ANAPESTS; 2 ANAPESTS; 3 ANAPESTS
LIMERICK
"Still I rise."
Maya Angelou
Inverting syntax in a sentence (putting words in an order that seems reversed to what is typical), such as "Weary I am," is called _______.
ANASTROPHE
"They have the manners of Captain Jack Sparrow" is a type of comparison called ____________.
Allusion
The opposite of LITOTES, which means "understatement"--overexaggeration, or ______
Hyperbole
The opposite of ENJAMBMENT is ________ (one-word term).
CAESURA
"The world is too much with us, late and soon..."
William Wordsworth