Sound Devices
Two or more rhyming words will appear in the middle of two separate lines or sometimes in more
Internal Rhyme
A poem of serious reflection, typically an expression of grief for someone who recently passed away.
Elegy
direct address to an inanimate object or idea; speaking to the dead as though living.
Apostrophe
Name the type of irony: In thrillers, the audience knows the boyfriend is the killer, but the girlfriend is always happy to have her boyfriend miraculously show up just after the scary ‘thing’ has gone away.
Dramatic
Literal meanings of words; dictionary definition
Denotation
refers to the pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
Rhythm
This type of poem is made up of three lines with the first line having five syllables, the second line having seven syllables and the third line having five syllables.
Haiku
a phrase or a fixed expression that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning.
Idiom
occurs when the writer or speaker says one thing but really means the opposite
Verbal Irony
all the associations and emotions that have come to be attached to a word
Connotation
the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem
Meter
This is a two-line poem with a simple rhyming pattern. Each line should have the same number of syllables and the endings must rhyme with one another.
Couplet
a statement which means less than what is intended
understatement
occurs when the audience or reader knows something important that a character does not know
Dramatic
word choice
repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.
Alliteration
This is unrhymed poetry. Though usually written in iambic pentameter, the lines can be composed of any meter.
Blank Verse Poetry
A statement of exaggeration
Hyperbole
occurs when what is expected to happen in a story or real life does not happen, but instead the reversal occurs.
Situational Irony
construction of sentences (long, short, simple, complex)
Syntax
repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words
Consonance
A poem in iambic pentameter and is made up of fourteen lines.
Sonnet
attribution of human characteristics to a creature, idea , or object
personification
Name the irony type: "It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife?"
It's not ironic, simply an unforfortunate scenario.
the attitude the writer takes about his/her subject
tone