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?
AABB is a type of....
What is rhyme scheme?
Every cloud has a silver lining is what type of poetic literary device?
What is idiom?
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?
A group of lines that is known as "paragraphs" in poetry
What is stanza?
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?
Iambic pentameter is a form of.....
What is meter?
This element in poetry refers to the repetition of similar sounds at the end or in the middle of lines.
What is rhyme?
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?
How words and sentences are physically arranged on the page.
What is lineation?
What type of poetic literary device is the following;
"Dear life, when I said my day couldn't get any better, it was a ............"
What is rhetorical question?
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?
This element is a pattern of beats created by the stressed and unstressed syllables of words in a poem.
What is rhythm?