Dastardly Devices
Language which evokes a sensory response
What is imagery?
Close repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
What is alliteration?
Narrative illustrating moral truth
What is a fable?
two lines of verse, usually rhymed
What is a couplet?
Literary type or class
What is a genre?
two unlike objects compared
What is a metaphor?
the choice of words and their placement in sentences
What is a syntax?
Death inscription
What is an epitaph?
14 lines iambic pentameter rhyme scheme (abab cdcd efef gg)
What is a Shakespearean sonnet?
"God from machine"
What is Deus ex machina?
Directly addressing an absent or imaginary person
What is apostrophe?
inanimate objects endowed with human qualities
What is personification?
Extended narrative poem
What is an epic, often heroic?
Lacks regular meter and line length
What is Free Verse?
Black Humor (dark jokes)
What is Gallows Humor?
Close repetition of consonant sounds
What is Consonance?
writer expresses a meaning contradictory to stated or ostensible one
What is irony?
Narrative poem, originally sung
What is a ballad?
group of lines that form division of a poem
What is a stanza?
Argument that appeals to emotion rather than reason, directed at attacking an individual
What is an ad hominem argument?
Excessive pathos
What is bathos?
Deliberate Exaggeration
Rough, Crudely written Verse, usually comic
What is a doggerel?
lyric poem of some length, serious in subject and dignified in style
What is an ode?
A deductive, logical argument, formulated around one major premise, one minor premise, and a conclusion
What is syllogism?