Poetic Devices
When the author attempts to paint a picture into the reader's mind
What is Imagery?
When a non-human thing is given human-like features or attributes
What is Personification?
This device is when a line ends with a punctuation mark
Name a theme of Love Armed
The tyrannical power of love
Love in general
Love as a conqueror
The pain of love not being returned
The primary theme or idea of The Chimney Sweeper?
The idea that working as a chimney sweep will set you free
When the same consonant sound is repeated
What is Consonance?
When a word, clause or phrase is seen multiple times for emphasis
What is repetition?
This is when there is punctuation in the middle of a line, indicating a pause whilst reading
What is Caesura?
Name the rhyme scheme of Love Armed
ABABCDCD
What is the technique used for the white hair of Tom Darce?
What is Symbolism?
The repetition of words at the beginning of successive clauses or lines
What is Anaphora?
When two things are compared using like or as
What is Simile?
When a poem follows the pattern of one unstressed syllable and then a stressed syllable
What is Iambic?
The technique whereby the person is not identified in the poem but just referenced/alluded to
What is Apostrophe?
What is the technique where the same vowel sound is repeated in multiple words
What is Assonance?
Describing something by saying it is something else. This device happens over multiple lines or paragraphs
What is Extended Metaphor?
When two things are placed next to each other to highlight the difference between the two of them
What is Juxtaposition?
When a line has 10 syllables
What is a Pentameter?
Which words break the rhyme scheme being followed?
What is Free and Thee?
The technique where the same consonant sound is repeated in multiple words
What is Consonance?
The repetition of a word or phrase at the END of successive lines
What is Epiphora?
What is Allusion?
Two part question.
A four line rhyming stanza is called a ...
An eight line stanza is called a ...
Quatrain
Octave
Who wrote Love Armed and who are they supposedly a successor of?
Who is Aphra Behn and who is Sappho?
Why is this poem so full of sibilance?
To represent the sound of sweeping and how it is all the kids know in their life