Poetic Devices 1
A comparison using "like" or "as"
What is a simile?
boom, buzz, crackle, gurgle, hiss, pop, sizzle, snap, swoosh, whir, zip
What is an example of onomatopoeia?
Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea.
What is personification?
lines with no prescribed pattern or structure — the poet determines all the variables as seems appropriate for each poem
What is free verse poetry?
The author of The Poet X
Who is Elizabeth Acevedo?
A series of harsh, unpleasant sounds helps to convey disorder. This is often furthered by the combined effect of the meaning and the difficulty of pronunciation
What is cacophony?
the feeling created in the reader. This feeling is the result of both the tone and atmosphere of the story.
What is mood?
A direct comparison between two unlike things, stating that one is the other or does the action of the other. Example: Her long hair was a flowing golden river.
What is a metaphor?
a Japanese form of poetry consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
What is a Haiku?
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" Sonnet 18
Who is William Shakespeare?
An outrageous exaggeration used for effect.
What is a hyperbole?
A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other. Example: bittersweet; deafening silence
What is an oxymoron?
Repeated vowel sounds in words placed near each other. Example: Go slow over the road. (repetition of the long o sound)
What is assonance?
poems that are printed on the page so that they form a recognizable outline related to the subject, thus conveying or extending the meaning of the words
What is concrete poetry?
The Road Not Taken
Who is Robert Frost?
A contradictory statement or situation to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true. Example: A post on Facebook complaining how useless Facebook is
What is irony?
A representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning. Often, it is a symbolic narrative that has not only a literal meaning, but a larger one understood only after reading the entire story or poem
A statement in which a seeming contradiction may reveal an unexpected truth. Example: If I know one thing, it's that I know nothing.
What is a paradox?
a pair of lines, usually rhymed; this is the shortest stanza
What is a couplet?
Because I Could Not Stop for Death.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
Speaking directly to a real or imagined listener or inanimate object; addressing that person or thing by name.
What is apostrophe?
An understatement, used to lessen the effect of a statement. Example: She is at rest. (meaning, she’s dead)
What is a euphemism?
A brief reference to some person, historical event, work of art, or Biblical or mythological situation or character.
What is allusion?
a light or humorous form of five verses, with a rhyme scheme of aabba.
What is a limerick?
"Quoth the Raven 'Nevermore.'"
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?