Sound Devices
What is internal rhyme?
compares two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
What is simile?
a poem which has two lines of verse per stanza
What is a couplet?
the feeling that a reader gets from the story
What is mood?
provides clues about topic, mood, speaker, author's purpose
What is the title?
when poets repeat words, phrases, or lines in a poem
What is repetition?
the repetition of the first consonant sound in words
What is alliteration?
a poem in which the words form the shape of the subject
What is concrete or shape?
author's attitude toward the audience, subject, or the character shown through dialogue or word choice
What is tone?
punctuation marks, line length, word position, capital letters not used in the first word in a line
What are graphic elements?
the flow of beat in a poem
What is rhythm?
gives human traits and feelings to things that are not human; inanimate objects
What is personification?
a Japanese poem with 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables each
What is a haiku?
the speaker in the poem; can be the poet or a character in the poem
What is voice?
events that are happening in the poem; includes everything from exposition to resolution
What is plot?
a type of rhyming pattern that is determined by looking at the end of each line
What is rhyme scheme?
a word that represents the actual sound of something such as "purr" or "booms"
What is onomatopoeia?
a poem in which the first letter of each line spells the subject of the poem as you read down
What is acrostic?
What is author's purpose?
these phrases give us information about the subject
What is figurative language?
When internal or ending consonant sounds are repeated close together
What is consonance?
a play on words with multiple meanings usually with a humorous effect
What is a pun?
a poem which has stanzas written in four lines
What is a quatrain?
the use of words to create pictures, or images, in your mind
What is imagery?
words that we like to hear read aloud that are meant to have an effect
What are sound devices?