Poetic Devices
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Poetry
100
This is when a sentence, phrase, or thought does not end with the line of poetry. Rather, it carries over to the next line.
What is enjambment?
100
This consists of two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem.
What is a stanza?
100
Words are in perfect aural correspondence.
What is perfect rhyme?
100
meek, beam, peace, pier, reap
What is assonance?
100
The first purpose of poetry?
What is to create clear images?
200
This is a comparison of two unlike things using like or as.
What is a simile?
200
This denotes how the speaker feels about the 
subject of a poem?
What is tone?
200
The words are similar but lack perfect correspondence. Example: found and kind, grime and game.
What is slant rhyme?
200
Mother – the female progenitor of the species
What is denotation?
200
Stanzas of four lines which can be written in any rhyme scheme.
What is a quatrain?
300
A seeming contradiction.
What is a paradox?
300
Similar to the narrator in a novel, this is the voice of the poem. This is NOT always the poet.
What is the speaker?
300
stanzas of three lines
What is a tercet?
300
I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
What is hyperbole?
300
Rhyme Scheme SOME candle clear burns somewhere I come by. I muse at how its being puts blissful back With yellowy moisture mild night’s blear-all black, Or to-fro tender trambeams truckle at the eye. By that window what task what fingers ply, I plod wondering, a-wanting, just for lack Of answer the eagerer a-wanting Jessy or Jack There God to aggrándise, God to glorify.—
What is abbaba?
400
The emotional meaning of the word.
What is connotation?
400
This is what the poem is literally about.
What is the subject?
400
5 iambs, 10 syllables That time | of year | thou mayst| in me | behold
What is iambic pentameter?
400
Cheerful, pensive, scary, humorous, etc.
What is mood?
400
A fat cat sat on a mat and a hat.
What is forced rhyme?
500
The repetition of consonant sounds usually at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration?
500
This is how the poem is physically organized on the page.
What is craftsmanship?
500
A group of two or three of these syllables, forming the basic unit of rhythm.
What is a metrical foot?
500
into that rushing beast of the night, sucked up by that reat dragon, to split from my life with no flag, no belly, no cry.
What is caesura?
500
This shows two related, contrasting things or ideas (e.g. life vs. death; youth vs. old age) to communicate something about them (offer a message).
What is a sonnet?
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