Poetic devices
The emphasis you put on a syllable.
What is stress?
Verse without rhyme, rhythm, or meter.
What is free verse?
This refers to a poem's structure, generic conventions, and/or shape.
What is form?
This is the definition of "analysis."
What is to break something down and describe how it works?
A sentence/phrase/clause that is interrupted by a line or stanza break.
What is an enjambment?
A poem made into a shape.
What is a visual poem?
Fast, slow, smooth, and jumpy are ways to describe this aspect of verse.
What is rhythm?
This is the definition of "implication."
What is to explain the importance of an argument to the meaning of the larger text?
A stanza of four lines.
What is a quatrain?
A poem without verse.
What is a prose poem?
"She struts around in five-inch heels and lines / her syllables in red lip liner" is an example of this literary feature.
What is personification?
This is necessary for integrating evidence into writing.
What is a lead-in?
A repeated consonant sound at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
List at least 4 characteristics of a Shakespearean sonnet.
What are: 14 lines, a poem about love, a rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg, a story with a twist at the end, a poem with a couplet at the end, or iambic pentameter?
"Nostalgia is a fruit with the pain of distance in its seed" is an example of this literary feature.
What is a metaphor?
This is a helpful strategy for directly connecting evidence to analysis and interpretation.
What is requoting?
A word that imitates a sound.
What is an onomatopoeia?
A poem with the rhyme scheme abba abba cde cde.
What is a Petrarchan sonnet?
"My brother holds a snake by its head" is an example of this literary feature.
What is a metaphor?
This is what it means to explain the "stakes" of an argument.
What is explaining WHY an argument is interesting/important to a text (i.e., going beyond a description of WHAT is happening)?