Poetic Devices
Identify the poetic device used below:
At 5:00 AM, the alarm clock sounds like a whining baby.
Personification
An emotional state
Mood
He's considered to be the Harlem Renaissance's most famous poet. He wrote poems including Harlem and I, Too, Sing America.
Edward Albee wrote this absurdist play. It only has one act and showcases the Theatre of the Absurd's belief that we are alone and that life has no meaning.
The Zoo Story
She pioneered confessional poetry and became one of the most famous poets to use this style, which focused on subject matter that was very personal.
Sylvia Plath
A unit of meter in poetry that consists of stressed syllables and unstressed syllables in a specific arrangement. This pattern of stress and unstress creates a rhythm.
Foot
As a literary device, this device in its most general sense is an extended metaphor
Allegory
This term refers to the duality felt by people living in a world that requires them to be two things. W.E.B. Du Bois referred to this as a 'two-ness.'
Double Consciousness
The Glass Menagerie's main character. He lives with his mother and sister and must provide for them all.
Tom
In this Modern poem, Robinson makes use of a traditional rhyme scheme as well as a specific meter. This sets it apart from much of the rest of Modern poetry.
Miniver Cheevy by E.A. Robinson
Two rhymed lines that are placed in sequence. They may be a part of a block of text or stand alone within a poem
Couplet
In its broadest sense, any single body of written works
Literature
This novel provides a very complex picture of African America communities, taking the time to show both positive and negative parts of this type of community.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The patriotism demanded by this war and its aftermath led the writers of this movement to push back against this mass conformity.
WWII
A literary process that involves referencing another work of some kind in your writing.
Allusion
Occurs when the final sound of a line rhymes with the final sound of the next line
End Rhyme
The pattern of poetic stresses
Meter
Laws passed in many Southern states after the Civil War that restricted the rights of African Americans. These laws led to many people migrating north, fueling the Harlem Renaissance.
Jim Crow Laws
A genre of plays that doesn't include character development or plot. Instead, these plays are concerned with the isolation of humanity and life's pointlessness.
Theatre of the Absurd
A poet who played an important role in beginning the Modern poetry movement. He simplified poetic language in his work and avoided flowery descriptions.
E.A. Robinson
An intentional and extended pause within a line intended to create a dramatic effect
Caesura
A sign that represents, stands for or suggests another idea, visual image, belief, action or material entity
Symbol
A poet associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Unlike most of the other poets involved in this movement, he was born in Jamaica instead of the U.S.
Claude McKay
Caulfield made up this term from a poem he misunderstood. He believed it referred to protecting innocents, showing how much he wanted to accomplish this.
Catcher in the Rye
A poem in the Imagism style that carefully makes use of each word to describe leafs falling onto water.
Autumn by Amy Lowell