Simile or Metaphor
This devices compares two things using 'like' or 'as'
What is a simile?
This device is created when there is a repeated consonant sound at the beginning of several words placed near each other.
What is alliteration?
This is when a text references something outside of the work, such as a historical event, piece of art, pop culture work, or religious reference.
What is an allusion?
This is the point of view that centers a narrator who is not a part of the story themselves, they may or may not be omniscient.
What is third person?
These are the senses that can be brought up when using imagery.
What are sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell?
This devices compares two things without using 'like' or 'as'
What is a metaphor?
The following is an example of this device:
Buzz, Tick Tock, Pop, Whoosh
What is Onomatopoeia?
The following is an example of this device:
"I could smell dinner cooking a mile away."
What is a hyperbole?
This is what a group of lines gathered together is called in a poem.
What is a stanza?
This device attempts to fuse different senses (sight, sound, etc.) by describing one sense with words typically associated with another sense.
What is synesthesia?
Bonus: Provide an example
The following is this poetic device:
"this plait like a lizard's tail"
What is a simile?
This device is the one most closely associated with poetry.
What is rhyme?
This device is utilized when a contradictory statement or situation reveals a reality different from what appears to be true.
Hint: There is a song from the 90's that talks about this device incorrectly.
What is irony?
Bonus points: What is an example of irony from one of the poems we looked at?
This type of poem has no fixed pattern or structure.
What is free verse?
This is the type of mood an author would be attempting to create with the following imagery:
"It was a dark and stormy night, though even without the clouds the new moon would have obscured our view. Though a small break you could see the red sun as it hid beneath the horizon."
What is tense, ominous, or scary.
Bonus: What is creating that mood and why?
These are the things being compared in the following quote:
"I took my love, I took it down
Climbed a mountain and I turned around
And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills
'Til the landslide brought me down"
What is the relationship of the narrator and the mountain/landslide?
The following is an example of this poetic device:
"Ain't no mountain high enough,
Ain't no valley low enough,
Ain't no river wide enough,
To keep me from getting to you, baby"
What is anaphora?
The following is an example of these two devices:
"Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk to you again"
What are personification and apostrophe?
This is when the sentence of a poem continues beyond the line it begins in. Another way to say it is a 'line break'.
What is enjambment?
This is the tone the author has for her subject:
"Come over here and let me hold your hand and hug you darling.
I promise you that it won’t always feel this bad.
There are so many things I want to say to you.
You’re the girl I used to be,
You little heartbroken thirteen-year-old me."
What is sympathetic, caring, or compassionate?
What tone does the following metaphor support:
"Our lives are better left to chance
I could have missed the pain
But I’d have had to miss the dance"
What is bittersweet?
For bonus points, explain how comparing life to a dance creates that tone.
This device is present when a piece of writing involves a series of harsh, unpleasant sounds. You might also say this when you hear a mess of sounds in real life.
What is cacophony?
This is the effect of the following paradox stated by the government in the book, 1984.
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
Hint: Think about some of the themes surrounding government that we talked about with "The Unknown Citizen".
What is shows how the government can use language and media to manipulate the truth.
This was the effect of the following rhetorical questions at the end of "The Unknown Citizen".
"What he free? Was he happy?"
What is, to show that the government cares more about what an individual does than the quality of their life.
In the following example identify the tone, a piece of imagery that helps to create that tone, and the effect that it has on the audience (Hint, the drought isn't literal!):
"The drought was the very worst
When the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst
It was months and months of back and forth
You're still all over me
Like a wine-stained dress I can't wear anymore
What is a somber tone, the dead flowers or wine stained dress, and that the audience understands that the author's relationship is completely over and the damage of the breakup feels permanent.