Name that device!
A comparison made with “as,” “like,” or “than.”
Simile
A device that moves an audience from the present moment in a chronological narrative to a scene in the past
Flashback
Life is like a box of chocolates
Simile
Life is a box of chocolates
Metaphor
The poet who wrote "Bluebird"
Charles Bukowski
Elements of a poem that invoke any of the five senses to create a set of mental images.
Imagery
Something in the world of the senses, including an action, that reveals or is a sign for something else, often abstract or otherworldly.
Symbol
The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition
Personification
Uh, caught up in all these lights and cameras
Uh, but look what that did to Hammer
Uh, dammit I like it
The bright lights is enticing
But look what it did to Tyson
Allusion
Name of the poet who wrote "Snow"
David Berman
A comparison that is made directly (for example, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” ) or less directly (for example, “marriage of two minds”), but in any case without pointing out a similarity by using words such as “like,” “as,” or “than.”
Metaphor
A figure of speech in which the poet describes an abstraction, a thing, or a nonhuman form as if it were a person.
Personification
Water, water everywhere, And not a drop to drink.
Irony
Mirror on the wall, here we are again
Through my rise and fall
You’ve been only friend
You told me that they can understand the man I am
So why are we here talkin’ to each other again
Symbolism - the mirror symbolizes the darkness and light in us. This reflection of good and the bad that we see within us guide us to be a better human being. Standing in front of the mirror and reflecting our thoughts daily is good.
Name of song I played at end of first poetry lesson (surreal lyrics)
Train Across the Sea
A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement.
Allusion
The repetition of initial stressed, consonant sounds in a series of words within a phrase or verse line.
Alliteration
Genuine fake
Oxymoron
"It's just a cough - nothing life-threatening!"
Later... the speaker dies
Foreshadowing
The word poetry is derived from this Greek word. Extra points for defining the Greek word
Poiesis - "the activity in which a person
brings something into being
that did not exist before"
A figure of speech that brings together contradictory words for effect, such as “jumbo shrimp” and “deafening silence.”
Oxymoron
This device introduces a distance between what is said and what is meant. Based on the context, the reader is able to see the implied meaning in spite of the contradiction.
Irony
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Alliteration
Roses are red, violets are blue, / Sugar is sweet, and so are you.
Rhyming
The first poet I exposed to the class
Ted Berrigan