Sound Devices
the repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
Rhyme
describe one thing as another, often to highlight similarities.
Metaphors
How many lines are in a sonnet?
14
Name 2 examples of Figurative langage.
Metapors, similes, personification, and sensory language
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” – what device is used here?
Metaphor/rhetorical question
add a musical quality to poetry. poets use these devices to enhance a poem's mood and meaning.
Sound devices
use "like" or "as" to compare two apparently unlike things and show simlarities.
Similes
What emotion is most often associated with sonnets?
love
Name two sound devices
Rhyme, Rhythm, Repetition, Onomatopoeia, and Alliteration
“Love is not Time’s fool” – identify the device.
Personification
the beat createdby the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Rhythm
is writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally.
Figurative language
Poems made famous by William Shakespeare. They are 14 lines and written in iambic pentameter.
What is sonnet
In Sonnet 18, what does Shakespeare compare his beloved to?
A summers day
“My love is like to ice, and I to fire” – what two devices are used?
Simile
is the use of words that imitate sounds.
Onomatopoeia
give human characteristics to an inanemate object.
Personfication
A rhythm pattern of 10 syllables per line, alternating unstressed and stressed beats.
iambic pentameter
what word is used to describe the main ideas addressed in a poem?
Theme
"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought..."
(William Shakespeare's Sonnet 30)
Alliteration
the reptiton of consonant sounds.
Alliteration?
the writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses.
Sensory language
What is a couplet, and where does it appear in a Shakespearean sonnet?
Two consecutive rhyming lines at the end that often provide a conclusion.
What poetic device is used in the phrase “Love’s not Time’s fool”?
Personification
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
(William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18)
Hyperbole