Sound Devices
This is the repetition of ending sounds like in "luck," "truck," and "duck."
What is rhyme?
This figurative devices is as slippery as an eel for some beginning poets.
What is a simile?
What happens.
This type of poem tells a story.
What is a narrative?
This is the definition one would find in a dictionary.
What is the denotation?
This devices is the repetition of initial vowel sounds which often creates a tongue twister.
What is alliteration
I bet you can't guess in a million years what this other word for an extreme exaggeration is.
What is hyperbole?
What are the characters?
"Design" by Robert Frost, for example, as it describes the thought in a moment.
What is a lyric?
This is what is actually happening.
This device is the repetition of internal vowel sounds.
What is assonance?
Don't try to get extra clues about this kind of comparison from this question. It woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
What is personification?
Who tells the story.
What is point of view?
This type of poem is kind of like the lines of a play and talks about an idea, issue, or event from one character's point of view.
What is a dramatic poem?
This is the way a word feels and all the baggage that come with it.
What is connotation?
This is the repetition of internal consonant sounds.
What is consonance?
Because Auden's poem "Musee de Beaux Arts" speaks about the real painting "The Fall of Icarus" by Breughel, it is a famous example of this device.
What is allusion?
How the story makes you feel.
What is the mood or atmosphere?
While this famous type of 14-lined lyric poem originated in Italy, its most widely used English form was developed by William Shakespeare.
What is a sonnet?
When people say they have their mind blown, they are using this kind of language.
What is figurative language?
This famous type of meter is often used in English poetry, and it was a favorite of William Shakespeare in both his sonnets and plays.
What is iambic pentameter?
This isn't a very good literary device. It doesn't do much.
What is understatement?
Why it is written.
What is the theme?
This is the name of a six-lined stanza.
What is a sestet?
Word Choice.
What is diction?