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?
an indirect or passing reference
What is an Allusion?
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?
A comparison not using like or as!
What is a Metaphor?
The pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza.
What is rhyme scheme?
The poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader.
What is tone?
The dictionary definition of a word.
Denotation
One example is when something is written or said, but the implied meaning is opposite the literal meaning.
What is irony?
Alliteration
A grouped set of lines within a poem.
What is a Stanza?
A word that sounds like what it means.
Onomatopoeia
Word choice
Diction
Visual details that create a picture in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Details that appeal to a reader's sense of smell, sight, taste, touch, or sound.
Sensory details.
Words that create a chime by repeating an end sound.
When an object, place, or person is understood to represent something else.
Symbolism
The central message of a text.
Theme
The secondary or emotional meaning of a word.
Connotation