Sound Devices
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words
What is alliteration?
A Japanese 3-line poem
What is a haiku?
An extreme exaggeration used to create an effect or to make a point
What is hyperbole?
When an author's name is unknown
What is anonymous?
A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken or written about as if it were another; a direct comparison of two unlikes without "like" or "as"
What is a metaphor?
The repetition of vowel sounds
A pair of lines with matching rhyme and meter
What is a couplet?
A word or phrase that means something other than what is actually being said; a figure of speech that differs from culture to culture
What is an idiom?
The repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or ends of words
What is consonance?
A type of poem that expresses the emotions of the speaker
A writer's intentional reuse of a sound, word, or phrase to create a musical effect
What is repetition?
Poetry with no rhyme and no meter
What is free verse?
A figure of speech in which the author says one thing but means its opposite
What is irony?
The psychological and emotional associations an individual connects with some words; having a positive, negative, or neutral feeling associated with the word
What is connotation?
Dictionary meaning of a word (without any emotional associations)
What is denotation?
A word or phrase that sounds like the thing it names
A 4-line unit (stanza) of poetry
What is a quatrain?
To give human or life-like traits to non-human or non-living things
What is personification?
The emotional attitude toward the reader or subject implied by a literary work; the poet's "tone of voice" (how the poem's narrator/author feels in the poem) always an adjective
What is tone?
The emotion created in a reader by part or all of a literary work; also known as atmosphere (how you feel while reading a poem) always an adjective
What is mood?
Repetition of a line, multiple lines, or a stanza in a poem to create a musical effect
What is a refrain?
An author's word choice
What is diction?
A thing that stands for itself and something else
What is a symbol?
The general subject or main idea of a poem
What is the theme?
The character who narrates a poem
Who is the speaker?