Literary Devices
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is Alliteration?
Uses the pronouns “I,” “me,” “we,” and “us,” to tell a story from the narrator's perspective
What is 1st person point of view?
A rhyme involving a word in the middle of a line and another at the end of the line or in the middle of the next
What is Internal Rhyme?
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdustrestaurants with oyster-shells
What is an example of Imagery?
A figure of speech that plays with the words to have multiple meanings
What is a Pun?
"Stop is to go as above is to below"
What is Analogy?
"You need to wash the dishes and take out the dog"
What is 2nd person point of view?
A reference to a person, event, or literary work outside the poem
What is Allusion?
"A brush or shrub that produces flowers, usually red, pink, white, or yellow in color"
What is an example of Denotation?
A state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result
What is Irony?
A concise saying that's used to express a customary truth
What is Aphorism?
The narrator exists outside the events of the story and relates the actions of the characters by referring to their names or by the third-person pronouns he, she, or they
What is 3rd person point of view?
"Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are. Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are."
What is External Rhyme?
"Red rose is the symbol of love and desire"
What is an example of Connotation?
The presentation of something as being smaller, worse, or less important than it actually is
What is an understatement?
Verbal, dramatic, and situational
What are the three types of Irony?
The POV that uses a narrator with access to only one character's perspective
What is 3rd person limited?
A division of a poem consisting of two or more lines arranged together as a unit
What is Stanza?
"Talking and Walking, hours on end"
What is an example of Assonance?
"Light as a feather"
What is Simile?
A statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true
What is Paradox?
A point of view where the narrator knows all the thoughts, actions, and feelings of all characters.
What is 3rd person omniscient?
A stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes
What is a quatrain?
"I'm so confused my head is spinning"
What is an example of Hyperbole?
An imitation of a writer , artist , subject or genre exaggeration of original in order to to produce humorous effect
What is Parody?