Literary Devices
A literary device that uses like or as to compare two things
A play on words
What is a pun?
What is a stanza?
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
Hey diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such a sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
What is AABCDB?
Example: My textbook is a thousand years old.
What is a hyperbole?
Example: My homework sat there on my desk for days, waiting for me to finish it.
What is personification?
Directly addresses the reader conveying their emotions and feelings, usually has a theme of love, nature or beauty
ABAB, ABBA, AABB, ABCD, etc
What is rhyme scheme?
Find the literary device(s):
How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a Frog -
To tell your name - the livelong June -
To an admiring Bog
What is a simile?
The repetition of the first letter of every word, or the repetition of every word.
What is alliteration?
Two words that contradict each other used to describe something else.
What is an oxymoron?
Tells a story (often folklore); consists of stanzas and repeated refrains; intended to be sung
What is a a ballad?
Would would the mood for this poem be?
O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
What is grief, loss, heartbreak, despair, sadness?
I crept up the stairs, shivering with fright. The moon was so bright and full in the sky and shone down through the square window at the top of the stairs.
What is imagery?
Example: Ask me anything, I am an open book.
What is a metaphor?
What is an ode?
Example: The author is conveying the _____ that all people are there for each other. It gives the ____ that if we all work together we can accomplish great things.
What is the theme/message?
What might the message of this poem be?
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
What is live a fulfilled life? What is death is inevitable? What is rage and live until your final moments?
What is an expression that has a figurative meaning instead of a literal one?
When someone says or does something but it ends up being the opposite.
What is irony?
An unrhymed poem written in iambic pentameter
What is blank verse?
Define iambic pentameter
What is a line with 10 syllables with alternating stressed and unstressed syllables?
What is the author talking about in this poem?
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.