Poetic Devices One
the succession of two or more words that share the same letter or sound at the beginning of the word.
What is Alliteration?
Giving an inanimate object human characteristics.
What is personification?
Words that imitate a sound.
What is Onomatopoeia?
An exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
An example of this poetic device is:
Her smile was as bright as the sun.
What is a simile?
A reference to a person, event, or literary work outside the poem.
What is an allusion?
Rows of words in a poem, often numbered.
What is a line?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
The use of language to represent objects, actions, feelings, thoughts, ideas, states of mind, and any sensory or extra-sensory experience.
What is Imagery?
An example of this poetic device is:
The flowers danced wildly in the wind.
What is personification?
The pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza.
What is rhyme scheme?
I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is a hyperbole.
An example of this poetic device is:
POW, BANG, CRASH
What is Onomatopoeia?
A comparison not using like or as.
What is a Metaphor?
Poetry that is free, yet has artistic expression is called ___________ verse.
What is free verse?
What is Prose?
Identified by the repetition of identical or similar consonants in neighboring words.
Example: "tick tock on the clock”
What is consonance?
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.
Men sell the wedding bells
(repetition of the long ‘e’ sound)
What is Assonance?
This many syllables make up 1 foot in iambic pentameter.
What is 2 syllables?
writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme.
What is verse?
A grouped set of lines within a poem.
What is a Stanza?
Repeating a word in a poetic line/poem used to show importance.
What is Repetition?
a place, object, or action that can be used to convey hidden meaning
What is a symbol?
An example of this poetic device is:
The color blue represents sadness.
What is symbolism?
The form of poetic meter that Shakespeare most often wrote in.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
Name the rhyme scheme of this poem:
The world is red,
It's all in my head.
I can't seem to find,
Where is my mind.
What is AABB?
Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
What is a Couplet?
A poetic Stanza should have this many lines.
What is any amount?
Trick question!
The beat and movement of language (rise and fall, repetition and variation, change of pitch, mix of syllables, melody of words).
What is Rhythm or Meter?