Poetic Devices
When 2 lines rhyme back to back
What is a couplet?
The beginning of the plot that introduces or exposes the characters
What is the introduction/exposition?
Comparing two things without using like or as
What is a metaphor?
The three rhetorical appeals
What is ethos, pathos, logos?
The author's attitude
What is the tone?
A group of lines in a poem
What is a stanza?
When an event, character, or symbol hints at things to come
What is foreshadowing?
Giving nonhuman objects or beings humanlike characteristics
What is personification?
Exaggeration to make a point
What is hyperbole?
The group of people a text was written for
What is the intended audience?
The pattern in which a poem rhymes
What is the rhyme scheme?
When the characters or narrator look at the past
Asking a question, not for the answer, but for the effect
What is a rhetorical question?
Word Choice
The reason for speaking or writing, sometimes directly stated, but often inferred
What is author's purpose?
The feeling the reader gets when reading
What is the mood?
When the story begins in the middle of the action
What is in medias res?
A common expression that doesn't make sense if you take it literally
Example: "It's raining cats and dogs."
What is an idiom?
The grammatical order of a sentence
What is syntax?
The logical order of the text
What is the structure?
Word choice, line length, and punctuation create this effect
What is rhythm?
The end of the introduction when the protagonist faces the antagonist for the first time
What is the point of conflict?
Two contradictory things, when paired, create an effect on the mood or tone
Example: Heavy lightness, falsely true
What is an oxymoron?
a balance within one or more sentences of similar phrases or clauses that have the same grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning, etc.
What is parallelism?
The text, objects, characters, etc. have a deeper meaning besides their own
What is a symbol?