Poetic Rhythm
Prominence given to certain syllables in a sequence.
Stress
A comparison of two things using a word such as “like“, “as”, or “so”
Simile
“I wandered lonely as a cloud” is an example of this poetic device.
Simile
Repetition of rhyme throughout a poem.
Rhyme scheme
Meter of a sonnet.
Iambic pentameter
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.
Meter
The type of language which usually contributes to poetic imagery.
Figurative
“The dog woofs as it eats”
Onomatopoeia
To stop the reader abruptly at the end of a line, a poet could use this device.
Caesura
Two types.
Italian and Shakespearean
A unit of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Poetic foot
The type of imagery associated with sense of touch.
Tactile imagery
“Life is a highway”
Metaphor
The words are similar but lack perfect correspondence.
Slant rhyme
The first three stanzas.
Quatrains
Type of foot exemplified by:
“amuse” “portray” “delight“ “return”
Iamb
What device could be used to give a kettle feelings?
Personification
“The sun smiled down on us“
Personification
What type of poem takes the rhyme scheme of ABABCDCDEFEFGG
Sonnet
The final stanza.
Rhyming couplet
Name the meter:
Your name is one I wish I could forget,
Your face is one I wish I could unsee.
Iambic pentameter
Auditory imagery‘s most prominent tool
Onomatopoeia
”She sells sea shells by the sea shore“
Consonance
The device used here:
I’m feeling rather sleepy
but, I don’t know why. I guess
I just need to sleep more.
Enjambment
The turn.
Volta