Poetic Devices One
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is Alliteration?
Giving an inanimate object human characteristics.
What is personification?
Words that imitate a sound.
What is Onomatopoeia?
describes the rhythm (or pattern of beats) in a line of poetry.
What is Meter?
The attitude of the speaker
What is tone?
A reference to a person, event, or literary work outside the poem.
What is an allusion?
This is an exaggerated statement.
What is a hyperbole?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
The use of language to represent objects, actions, feelings, thoughts, ideas, ideas, states of mind, and any sensory or extra-sensory experience.
What is Imagery?
an indirect or passing reference
What is an Allusion?
The pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza.
What is rhyme scheme?
Word play in which words with totally different meanings have similar or identical sounds.
Example: Like a firefly in the rain, I'm de-lighted.
What is pun?
Incomplete syntax at the end of a line; the meaning 'runs over' or 'steps over' from one poetic line to the next, without punctuation.
What is enjambment?
A comparison not using like or as!
What is a Metaphor?
Poetry that has no set rhyme or meter.
What is free verse?
EX: The Crown
What is Metonymy?
Any figure of speech that was once clever and original but through overuse has become outdated.
Example: busy as a bee
What is the cliche?
Addressing someone or something that is not actually there
EX: O, Death
What is apostrophe?
Takes place when two or more words close to one another repeat the same vowel sound but start with different consonant sounds.
Men sell the wedding bells
(repetition of the long ‘e’ sound)
What is Assonance?
rhetorical device in which a word or expression is repeated at the beginning of a number of sentences, clauses, or phrases.
What is Anaphora?
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
What is Synecdoche?
A grouped set of lines within a poem.
What is a Stanza?
A type of poem that idealizes rural life or the natural world.
What is Pastoral?
A type of poem that expresses sadness or melancholy about death, but ends in consolation.
What is Elegy?
when an author replaces harsh words or phrases with more mild ones to essentially soften the blow of something that could have a more negative connotation otherwise
What is euphemism?
One example is when something is written or said but the words are not truly what was meant. More specifically, the implied meaning is different from the literal meaning.
two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect
What is Juxtaposition?
Two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit.
What is a Couplet?
a phrase that seems to contradict itself, but in actuality it makes sense
What is a paradox?
a shift in meaning, often found in the rhymed couplet of sonnets
What is Volta?