Poetic Devices One
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is Alliteration?
Giving an inanimate object human characteristics.
What is personification?
Words that imitate a sound.
What is Onomatopoeia?
An exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
Rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines.
What is internal rhyme?
A reference to a person, event, or literary work outside the poem.
What is an allusion?
This poem has fourteen lines. It is usually in iambic pentameter, has ten syllables per line.
What is a Sonnet?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
The use of language to represent objects, actions, feelings, thoughts, ideas, ideas, states of mind, and any sensory or extra-sensory experience.
What is Imagery?
A version of metaphor that extends over the course of multiple lines, paragraphs, or stanzas of prose or poetry.
What is an Extended Metaphor?
The pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza.
What is rhyme scheme?
The poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader.
What is tone?
Incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning 'runs over' or 'steps over' from one poetic line to the next, without punctuation.
What is enjambment?
A comparison not using like or as!
What is a Metaphor?
Poetry that is free, yet has artistic expression is called ___________ verse.
What is free verse?
Stanza of four lines. Often one line consists of alternating rhyme.
What is a Quatrain?
Identified by the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words whose vowel sounds are different.
Mike likes his new bike
It will creep and beep while you sleep.
What is the consonance?
Describes how word choice, subject matter, and the author's tone convey an overall feeling that characterizes the emotional landscape of a poem for readers.
What is mood?
Takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds.
Men sell the wedding bells
(repetition of the long ‘e’ sound)
What is Assonance?
Recurring phrase or verse at the end of stanzas. Each stanza ends with the same words.
What is Refrain?
the continuation of a phrase or sentence beyond the poetic line break and sometimes beyond a couplet or stanza
What is enjambment?
A grouped set of lines within a poem.
What is a Stanza?
Repeating a word in a poetic line/poem used to show importance.
What is Repetition?
a place, object, or action that can be used to convey hidden meaning
What is a symbol?
a break or pause in the verse to allow one phrase to finish and another to begin
What is caesura?
One example is when something is written or said but the words are not truly what was meant. More specifically, the implied meaning is different from the literal meaning.
a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one
What is an allegory?
Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
What is a Couplet?
a phrase that seems to contradict itself, but in actuality it makes sense
What is a paradox?
The beat and movement of language (rise and fall, repetition and variation, change of pitch, mix of syllables, melody of words).
What is Rhythm?