Sound Devices
Literary Devices
Poetry Analysis
Types of Poetry
Parts of a Poem
100
repetition of initial letter sound ex: sally sells sea shells
What is alliteration?
100
a passage in which a writer addresses a dead or absent person or an abstract or inanimate object
What is apostrophe?
100
message or lesson observed in a poem
What is theme?
100
14 line poem written in iambic pentametre
What is a sonnet
100
"paragraph" in a poem
What is a stanza?
200
a device in which the sound of a word reflects its meaning (eg. buzz)
What is onomatopoeia?
200
a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement, which, upon investigation or explanation may prove to be well founded or true
What is paradox?
200
the overall feeling a reader gets from a poem
What is mood?
200
a type of lyric poem that expresses sadness for someone who has died
What is elegy?
200
three line stanza
What is a tercet?
300
the repetition of vowel sounds within words eg face, mailed
What is assonance?
300
seemingly contradictory words placed side by side for effect eg. curse bless me now with your fierce tears
What is oxymoron?
300
the author's attitude toward the subject matter
What is tone?
300
a narrative poem or song that tells a popular story, often of physical courage or love
What is a ballad?
300
pattern of rhyme in a poem
What is rhyme scheme?
400
repetition of the same or similar consonants in neighbouring words eg. coming home or middle/muddle
What is consonance?
400
reference to something from literature, popular culture or history to improve understanding in a poem
What is allusion?
400
a story, play, poem or visual in which each character or even is a symbol representing an idea or quality the work often has a parallel meaning eg: Animal Farm, each character represents a historical figure from the Russian Revolution
What is allegory?
400
unrhymed poem or verse written in iambic pentametre
What is blank verse?
400
a recurring phrase or number or lines, especially at the ends of stanzas
What is refrain?
500
a pleasing smoothness of sound, especially of words spoken in combination. opposite of cacophony
What is euphony?
500
a literary device in which a phenomena in nature are given human qualities and feelings in sympathy with the mood of the narrator or speaker (eg weeping rainclouds)
What is pathetic fallacy?
500
similarity or correspondence in either construction or meaning, or successive causes or passages in writing
What is parallelism?
500
a 19 line poem with 5 tercets and one quatrain. Two refrains are alternately repeated at the end of each tercet and as a couplet at the end of the quatrain (eg. Do Not Go Gentle into that Goodnight)
What is vilanelle?
500
8 line stanza
What is an octave?
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