Poetic Devices
This gives human traits to animals, nonhuman beings, or inanimate objects.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
This is a group of lines arranged together.
What is a STANZA?
This is the term for an interpretive lens that allows us to decipher a text's meaning according to its form.
What is FORMALISM?
What is ANIMALISM?
The poet who wrote, "Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers."
Who is WILLIAM WORDSWORTH?
This compares two different things, using the words "as," "like, or "than."
What is a SIMILE?
What is METER?
This is also referred to as the what, as opposed to the how.
What is CONTENT?
This is the name of the oldest animal on the farm.
What is BENJAMIN?
The poet who wrote, "Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood / The land of spices; something understood."
Who is GEORGE HERBERT?
This is an implied comparison stating the resemblance between two things.
What is a metaphor?
This is the name for lines of unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What is BLANK VERSE?
This is usually said to "drive content."
What is FORM?
This is a symbol that might represent power and its ability to corrupt.
What is WHISKEY?
The character in Animal Farm who said, "Snowball fought bravely at the Battle of the Cowshed. I saw him myself. Did we not give him 'Animal Hero, First Class,' immediately afterwards?”
Who is BOXER?
This is the use of words that sound like their meaning.
What is ONOMATAPOIEA?
This is the course text that introduced us to blank verse.
What is THE TEMPEST?
This is a kind of writing that confronts, corrects, or apocalyptically reveals unpleasant truths about our culture or civilization.
What is PROPHETIC WRITING?
This is a symbol that might stand for the failure of the animal revolution to deliver on its promises.
What is WINDMILL?
The poet who wrote, "My soul is all but out of me, -let fall / No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call."
Who is EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY?
This is an indirect reference to something outside the current literary work.
What is ALLUSION?
This is a poem featuring 14 lines, iambic pentameter, a turn or volta, and it can be "Petrarchan" or "Shakespearean."
What is A SONNET?
This is a term that describes the combination of beauty and terror.
What is THE SUBLIME?
This is a vocabulary word that refers to old Major's boar-like tusks, which have never been trimmed.
What are TUSHES?
Who is STEVEN KNEPPER?