Poetic Devices One
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
What is Alliteration?
Giving an inanimate object human characteristics.
What is personification?
Words that imitate a sound.
What is Onomatopoeia?
Repeating a word in a poetic line/poem used to show importance.
What is Repetition?
A comparison using like or as.
What is a simile?
The pattern of sounds that repeats at the end of a line or stanza.
What is rhyme scheme?
The use of language to represent objects, actions, feelings, thoughts, ideas, ideas, states of mind, and any sensory or extra-sensory experience.
What is Imagery?
A grouped set of lines within a poem.
What is a Stanza?
This poem has fourteen lines. It is usually in iambic pentameter, has ten syllables per line.
What is a Sonnet?
A comparison not using like or as!
What is a Metaphor?
Poetry that is free, yet has artistic expression is called ___________ verse.
What is free verse?
Describes how word choice, subject matter, and the author's tone convey an overall feeling that characterizes the emotional landscape of a poem for readers.
What is mood?
An exaggeration.
What is Hyperbole?
Recurring phrase or verse at the end of stanzas. Each stanza ends with the same words.
What is Refrain?
Italian sonnet
Perfected by the Italian poet Petrarch, divides the 14 lines into two sections: an eight-line stanza (octave) rhyming ABBAABBA, and a six-line stanza (sestet) rhyming CDCDCD or CDECDE.
What is Petrarchan sonnet?
The poet's attitude toward the poem's speaker, reader, and subject matter, as interpreted by the reader.
What is tone?