Poetic Devices
Poetic Devices
Literary Devices
Characters
Archetypes
100
a sound that doesn't exactly rhyme
What is slant rhyme?
100
two consecutive lines in a poem that rhyme
What is a couplet?
100
contrasting words for specific emphasis
What is oxymoron?
100
Hamlet's love interest
Who is Ophelia?
100
represents cleansing, purity, baptism
What is water?
200
a repeated vowel sound in words
What is assonance?
200
a comparison that goes beyond just a line or two; it lasts throughout a whole poem or passage
What is an extended metaphor?
200
repetition of a word or phrase in successive lines
What is anaphora?
200
Oedipus' wife/mom
Who is Jocasta?
200
represents a big decision a character has to make
What is a crossroads?
300
a repeated consonance sound
What is consonance?
300
a 14-line poem in rhyming iambic pentameter that is divided by an octave with a problem and a sestet with a resolution
What is a Petrarchan sonnet?
300
a reference to another text, myth, or history used to make a comparison
What is an allusion?
300
Ophelia's father
Who is Polonius?
300
a tragic hero's flaw
What is hamartia?
400
a line of poetry that does not end in punctuation and carries on to the next line
What is enjambment?
400
a rhyme within a line
What is internal rhyme?
400
a seemingly absurd or contradictory statement that doesn't seem true but actually contains some truth
What is a paradox?
400
The first narrator in Frankenstein
Who is Robert Walton?
400
a symbol for escape
What is a bird?
500
a shift in a sonnet, usually at line 9.
What is volta?
500
when a writer reference something or someone that is not there, sometimes in a shift or exclamation
What is apostrophe?
500
two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect
What is juxtaposition?
500
Who is the blind prophecy in Oedipus
Who is Teiresias?
500
a figure that doesn't really fit into society
What is the other/outsider (also acceptable: disenfranchised man, but know the difference!)
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