Sound Devices
The repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
What is Rhyme?
The difference between simile and metaphor.
Simile – a figure of speech that makes direct comparison between two subjects, using either like or as
Metaphor – figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else, suggest a comparison between the two things
Language used in literature to create vivid pictures for the reader, sensory details.
What is Imagery?
A group of lines in a poem that are considered to be a unit, can function like a paragraph, poems are divided into these and they are separated by spaces.
What is a Stanza?
The writer's attitude toward his or her subject, characters, or audience, and it can be formal or informal, friendly or distant, personal or pompous.
What is Tone?
The pattern of beats, or stresses, in spoken or written language.
What is Rhythm?
A figure of speech in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.
What is Personification?
The use of realistic details to express emotions by using anything that stands for or represents something else.
What is Symbolism?
A type of writing in which uncomplicated sentences and ordinary words are used to make simple, direct statements.
What is Plain Style?
A writer's or speaker's word choice, it is part of the writer's style and may be described as formal or informal, plain or ornate, common or technical, abstract or concrete.
What is Diction?
The use of words that imitate sounds like buzz, hiss, murmur, and rustle.
What is Onomatopoeia?
A contrast between what is stated and what is meant, or between what is expected to and what actually happens, can be verbal, dramatic, or situational.
What is Irony?
A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement, often used for comic effect.
What is Hyperbole?
Poetry that lacks a regular rhythmical pattern, or meter.
What is Free Verse?
Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
What is Blank Verse?
The repetition of consonant sounds beginning of words or accented syllables.
What is Alliteration?
An extended comparison of relationships. It is based on the idea that the relationship between one pair of things is like the relationship between another pair of things.
What is Analogy?
The atmosphere, a feeling, created in the reader by a literary work or passage.
What is Mood?
A long, formal lyric poem with a serious theme that may have a traditional stanza structure, often honor people, commemorate events, respond to natural scenes, or consider human problems.
What is an Ode?
A regular pattern of repetitional words in a poem, letters of the alphabet are used to represent each sound or stanza in the poem.
What is Rhyme Scheme?
The repetition of vowel sounds in conjunction with dissimilar consonant sounds.
What is Assonance?
A figure of speech in which the speaker directly addresses an absent person or a personified quality, object, or idea.
What is Apostrophe?
Refers to a comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a paragraph, or lines in a poem. It is often comprised of more than one sentence, and sometimes consists of a full paragraph.
What is an Extended Metaphor?
A literary device that can be defined as having two successive rhyming lines in a verse, and has the same meter to form a complete thought.
What is a Couplet?
Can be defined as a rhyme in which the stressed syllables of ending consonants match, however the preceding vowel sounds do not match.
What is Slant Rhyme?