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?
Auditory imagery appeals to our...
What is hearing/sound?
A stanza of three lines is called a...
What is tercet?
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?
Gustatory imagery appeals to our...
What is taste?
A stanza of six lines is called a...
What is sestet?
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?
Olfactory imagery appeals to our...
What is smell?
A stanza of eight lines is called a...
What is an octave?
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?
Italian sonnet
Perfected by the Italian poet Petrarch, divides the 14 lines into two sections: an eight-line stanza (octave) rhyming ABBAABBA, and a six-line stanza (sestet) rhyming CDCDCD or CDECDE.
What is Petrarchan sonnet?
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 deliberate grammatical break in the middle of a line of poetry.
What is a Caesura?
Tactile imagery appeals to our...
What is touch?
Lines of poetry consisting of five iambs.
U / U / U / U / U /
What is Iambic Pentameter?
A figure of speech in which words repeat at the beginning of successive clauses, phrases, or sentences.
What is an Anaphora?
A grammatical boundary or break at the END of a poetic line.
What is end stop?
Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
What is a Couplet?
The variation of the sonnet form that Shakespeare used—comprised of three quatrains and a concluding couplet, rhyming abab cdcd efef gg
What is Shakespearean sonnet?
The beat and movement of language (rise and fall, repetition and variation, change of pitch, mix of syllables, melody of words).
What is Rhythm?
Raindrops here and raindrops there,
Raindrops falling everywhere!
The above stanza is a...
What is a couplet?