Poetic structure
A literary device characterized by identical or similar sounds at the end of words.
What is rhyme?
The act of doing or saying something again.
What is repetition?
A person, place, thing or event that figuratively represents or stands for something else; often the thing or idea represented is more abstract and general, and this thing is more concrete and particular.
What is a symbol?
A purposeful reference to something outside the text, such as an actual person, place, event, or other work of literature
What is an allusion?
The basic rhythmic structure of a line within a poem. It is often measured by the number of syllables and the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
What is meter?
The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of adjacent pr nearby words to emphasize those words and their associations or representations.
What is alliteration?
Sensory language designed to evoke the sight, sound, taste, touch, or smell associated with an object, feeling, or idea. Many students like to write about this by saying, "The author paints a vivid picture..." (Don't do that, btw).
What is imagery?
The placement of contrasting ideas or images side by side to highlight their differences and create contrast, tension, or emphasis
What is juxtaposition?
A poem made up of fourteen lines; traditionally about love or mortality. Shakespeare's traditionally end in a rhyming couplet
What is a sonnet?
A repeated line, stanza, or chorus that recurs throughout a poem or song.
What is a refrain?
The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
What is personification?
A situation or statement characterized by a significant difference what is expected or understood and what actually happens or is meant
What is irony?
A line of poetry that contains or concludes a complete clause and often ends with terminal punctuation.
What is an end-stopped line?
The repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines.
What is anaphora?
Uses the word, "like" or "as" to liken two objects or concepts to each other to transfer the traits or qualities of one to the other.
What is a simile?
A recurring device, formula, or situation within a literary work. So, for example, if the same symbols shows up throughout the book, it is an example of this.
What is a motif?
The continuation of a sentence or phrase from one line to the next without terminal punctuation.
What is enjambment?
The repetition of the same word or phrase at the end of successive lines.
What is epistrophe?
A direct comparison between two unlike things that equates one with the other.
What is a metaphor?
Word order: the way words are put together for form phrases, clauses, and sentences.
What is syntax?