Sound Devices
SLAM is a sound device.
What is Onomatopoeia?
A comparison between two usually unrelated things using the word “like” or “as”.
Using words to create a picture in the reader’s mind.
What is Imagery?
Tells us who is speaking to the reader.
What is Voice?
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
What is Free Verse?
The repetition of the initial letter or sound in two or more words in a line.
What is Alliteration?
An implied comparison between two usually unrelated things.
What is Metaphor?
The atmosphere, or emotion, in the poem created by the poet.
What is Mood?
The language of a poem, and how each word is chosen to convey a precise meaning.
What is Diction?
A Japanese Poem.
What is Haiku?
The repetition of sounds.
What is Rhyme?
An exaggeration for the sake of
emphasis.
What is Hyperbole?
The tone of a literary work expresses the writer's attitude or feelings about the subject matter and audience.
What is Tone?
An idea or feeling that a word invokes.
What is Connotation?
A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
What is an Elegy?
Is able to be measured in meter.
What is Rythm?
Giving human characteristics to inanimate objects, ideas, or animals.
What is Personification?
Two things that intertangle with one another.
What is Tone and Mood?
Sending message, sharing feelings, telling story are all reasons an author may write a poem.
What is Author's Purpose?
Has 14 lines, and they are divided into three 'stanzas' of four lines each, then a 'couplet'
What is a Shakespearean Sonnet?
One or more words are repeated to show urgency or importance.
What is Repetition?
Something that stands for itself, but also something larger than itself.
What is Symbolism?
Heavily relies on Imagery.
What is Mood?
The explanation of what is happening in the poem, and the order in which those events happen.
What is Plot?
The first letter of each line spells out a word or phrase that's generally related to the topic of the poem.
What is an Acrostic Poem?