Literary Devices
Words or phrases that suggests their meanings.
What is Onomatopoeia?
A rhyme that occurs at the end of lines.
What is an End Rhyme?
A poem that tells a story.
What is a Narrative Poem?
The person who is telling the story.
What is the Narrator?
The main subject of a piece of writing; a message or lesson that the author wants to convey to readers.
What is Theme?
The repetition of words in a clause or phrase.
What is Repetition?
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
A short poem often with song-like qualities.
What is a Lyric?
Where the poem takes place.
What is Setting?
The feeling or atmosphere created by the writer.
What is Mood?
A term that combines opposite terms in a brief phrases.
What is an Oxymoron?
Rhyme that occurs within a single sentence.
What is an Internal Rhyme?
A short, unrhymed poem that adheres to a specific three-line, seventeen syllable format.
What is a Haiku?
The progression of a story or poem.
What is the Plot?
A writer's or speaker's choice of words.
What is Diction?
Language that appeals to the five senses.
What is Imagery?
A repeating rhythmic pattern in poetry.
What is Meter?
A poem of fourteen lines using any numbers of formal rhyme schemes. In English, typically having ten syllables per line.
What is a Sonnet?
When you learn what happens to the characters after the conflict; the plot ends.
What is the Resolution?
A method of arrangement.
What is Form?
The repetition of the same sound in a text or line.
What is Consonance?
The way an author chooses and arranges words.
What is Author Style?
A narrative rhythmic verse that may be sung.
What is a Ballad?
Background information of the story or poem usually about the setting or the characters' background.
What is Exposition?
The use of words to create an image in the reader's mind.
What is Figurative Language?