Sound Devices
What sound device is presented in the following line?
"The lazy river lulled us into languor."
What is alliteration?
A unit of poetic lines (a “paragraph” within the poem).
What is a stanza?
A poem whose rhyme scheme is fixed: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
What is a Shakespearean sonnet (or Elizabethan sonnet)?
The "running over" of a sentence from one verse or a couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines.
What is enjambment?
An arrangement, or grouping, of 8 lines.
What is an octave?
What poetic device does the following example represent?
"A rolling stone gathers no moss."
What is assonance?
A pair of lines that rhyme.
What is a couplet?
The dictionary definition, or meaning, of words.
What is denotation?
When the speaker of a poem directly addresses someone or something not present.
What is apostrophe?
Lines with no prescribed pattern or structure.
What is free verse?
Which sound device is present in the following line?
"You snooze, you lose"
What is consonance?
An arrangement, or grouping, of 3 lines.
What is a tercet?
The following example reveals which technique?
In literature, the color gray is usually associated with dreariness or dullness.
What is connotation?
A poem that contains an octave, with a rhyme scheme of with a rhyme scheme of ABBAABBA, followed by a sestet with a rhyme scheme of CDECDE or CDCDCD.
What is the rhyme scheme in the following poem? Flowers Blooming in May,
Birds in the sky Flying;
Oh This Flower will Smile Today,
Tomorrow it will be Dying.
ABAB
Which sound device is present in these lines?
"The splendor falls on castle walls / And snowy summits old in story / The long light shakes across the lakes"
What is euphony?
An arrangement, or grouping, of 4 lines.
What is a quatrain?
An elaborate extended metaphor that is often shocking or surprising is called a _____________.
What is a conceit?
A pause, or interruption, within a line of poetry (sometimes denoted by punctuation or by extra spaces).
What is a caesura (plural caesurae)?
A poetic form without any regularity and consistency in elements such as rhyme, line length, and metrical form.
What is an open form poem?
Which sound device is prevalent in these lines?
Mule-bray, pig-grunt and bawdy cackles / Proceed from your great lips. / It’s worse than a barnyard.
What is cacophony?
An arrangement, or grouping, of six lines.
What is a sestet?
The voice, or persona, that appears to talk to the audience.
What is the speaker?
The times are almost over, though,
And they have surely been tough.
What is eye rhyme?
A poem which follows a set pattern of meter, rhyme scheme, stanza form, and refrain (if there is one).
What is a fixed form (or closed form) poem?