Poetic Devices (1)
A figure of speech which makes a direct comparison of two unlike objects by identification or substitution.
What is a metaphor?
The use of an object to suggest another hidden object or idea.
What is symbolism?
The use of the words to represent things, actions, or ideas by sensory description.
What is imagery?
Poetry is written in these -- the way the lines are grouped together (like paragraphs in prose writing).
What are stanzas?
When sounds at the end of the words agree -- such as pool and fool.
What is rhyme?
A rigid, 14-line verse form with variable structure and rhyme scheme according to type.
What is a sonnet?
Contrast between actual meaning and the suggestion of another meaning (can be verbal, dramatic, or situational).
What is irony.
Occurs when a word or phrase is purposely used more than once, can create a pattern.
What is repetition?
Poets often use these word pictures or images to help the reader "see" or visualize the poem fully.
What is imagery?
What is a simile?
A type of repetition where part of the phrase is repeated, but part of it is changed.
What is parallel structure?
Two consecutive lines in a poem that rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables.
What is a couplet?
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or piece of art.
What is an allusion?
Set of ideas associated with a word, in addition to its explicit meaning.
What is connotation?
Dictionary definition of a word.
What is denotation?
Regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem.
What is rhyme scheme?
A French verse form, strictly calculated to appear simple and spontaneous; 5 tercets and a final quatrain, rhyming aba aba aba aba aba abaa; lines 1, 6, 12, and 18 are repeated; and 3, 9, 15, and 19 are refrain repeated.
What is a villanelle?
Gross exaggeration for effect, overstatement.
What is a hyperbole?
Words or phrases that imitate sounds they are describing.
What is onomatopoeia?
3 quatrains (4 lines) with a concluding couplet (2 lines) in iambic pentameter, 14 lines in all. Made most famous by William Shakespeare.
What is a sonnet?
A reference to an outside fact, event, or other source.
What is an allusion?
The repetition of sounds in the beginning of words (like Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers).
What is alliteration?
The way in which rhythm is measured in a poem.
What is meter?
The mood, or atmosphere, of a piece of poetry.
What is tone?