Poetic Devices
Poetic Devices 2
Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Authors
100
Refers to stressed and unstressed syllables, like in a song.
What is rhythm?
100
Comparison using like or as
What is simile?
100
v. shine
What is gleam?
100
n. window frames built so the windows swing outward
What is casements?
100
Author of Cat!
Who is Eleanor Farjeon?
200
Similar end sounds
What is rhyme?
200
Gives human qualities to nonhuman things.
What is personification?
200
n. where the land or water seems to meet the sky
What is horizon?
200
n. hugeness or vastness
What is immensity?
200
Author of Silver
Who is Walter de la Mare?
300
Similar beginning consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
300
Use of any element of language more than once.
What is repetition?
300
v. looks hard at something as if to see it more clearly.
What is peers?
300
n. dried straw used to make roofs
What is thatch?
300
Author of Your World
Who is Georgia Douglas Johnson?
400
Words that mimic sounds
What is onomatopoeia?
400
Repitition of similar vowel sounds in stressed syllables that end in different consonant sounds.
What is assonance?
400
n. running with short, quick steps
What is scampering?
400
v. beat quickly; pulsed
What is throbbed?
400
Author of Describe Somebody and Almost a Summer Sky
Who is Jacqueline Woodson?
500
Comparison of two dissimilar things
What is metaphor?
500
Repitition of final consonant sounds after different vowel sounds in stressed syllables.
What is consonance?
500
v. to toss around here and there
What is scatter?
500
adj. farthest away; outermost
What is uttermost?
500
Poet referred to in our Daily Sentences.
Who is Langston Hughes?
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