Poetic Devices
A reference to a real or fictional person, place, event, or work of art.
Allusion
A shift in a poem that marks a shift in thought or direction.
Volta
Identify the two kinds of sonnets we read.
English (Shakespearean) and Italian (Petrarchan)
Name the poem:
"Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"
Ozymandias
This literary device is the central meaning that the poet is trying to deliver to the reader.
Theme
When the outcome of a situation is different from what is expected.
Irony
Descriptive language to create a sensory experience in the reader's mind.
Imagery
A sestet is a stanza with how many lines?
6
Name the poem:
"I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike."
Mirror
What literary device is this an example of?
The rain in Spain stays mainly on the planes.
An exaggerated statement not meant to be taken literally.
Hyperbole
The repetition of consonant sounds in a chunk of text.
Consonance
Complete the line from this Shakespearean Sonnet:
"My mistress's eyes are nothing like the __"
Sun
Name the author:
"Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality."
Emily Dickinson
What do you call two lines that rhyme (and usually end a sonnet)?
Couplet
What do you call a stanza that has 4 lines?
Quatrain
Name the author:
"Do not go gently into that good night"
Dylan Thomas
What is the name of the woman to whom Petrarch wrote 366 sonnets?
Author of "Ode to a Large Tuna in the Marketplace"
Pablo Neruda