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?
Author of "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
Who is Robert Service?
The attitude of the speaker
What is tone?
the narrator or person saying the words of the poem
What is the speaker?
Life is like a box of chocolates
What is a simile?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
The locker room smelled like rotting tomatoes.
What is Imagery?
"Mother Nature" is an example.
What is personification?
When the end sounds of words sound the same
What is rhyme?
The main idea, message, or lesson in a poem
What is theme?
You are the apple of my eye.
What is a metaphor?
A comparison not using like or as!
What is a Metaphor?
There once was a man from Peru,
Who dreamt he was eating a shoe,
He woke one night
and with a fright
he realized it was totally true!
What is limerick?
“crescent,” “flesh,” “extending,” “medicine” and “death”
What is assonance?
"The artist stirred some blue and green
To paint an underwater scene." Type of poetry
What is a couplet?
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?
vivid descriptions used to produce mental images (appeal to the five senses)
What is imagery?
poetry that is made from existing texts that can be rearranged to have a different meaning
What is found poetry?
A grouped set of lines within a poem.
What is a Stanza?
"Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold it stabbed like a driven nail." Two poetic devices
What are internal rhyme and simile?
She was as beautiful as a rose
What is a simile?
"Washington isn’t gonna listen to disciplined dissidence
this is the difference / this kid is out!” includes 3 poetic devices.
What is assonance, alliteration, and consonance?
3 types of rhyme
What are end rhyme, internal rhyme, and slant rhyme?
repetition of consonant sounds at the middle or ends of words
What is consonance?
Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
What is a Couplet?
"Then I made a hike, for I didn't like to hear him sizzle so" Two poetic devices
What are internal rhyme and alliteration?
Another word for poet. Shakespeare is sometimes called "The _________"
What is Bard?