Poetic Devices
This is the definition of metaphor.
What is a direct comparison saying one thing is another.
Definition of alliteration
Repeating consonant sounds at the beginnings of nearby words is called what?
Stanza
What is a division of a poem consisting of a series of lines arranged together?
There are 14 of these in a Shakespearean sonnet.
How many lines are in a Shakespearean sonnet?
This is the dictionary or literal definition of a word.
What is denotation?
This is the definition of stanza.
What is the term for sections of a poem divided by line count?
Definition of assonance
What are repeating vowel sounds within words (not necessarily at line ends)?
This is the definition of imagery.
The use of vivid, descriptive language in literature and art to evoke sensory experiences, painting pictures in the reader's mind.
This is the stanza structure of a Shakespearean sonnet.
What is three quatrains and a couplet?
This represents which metrical foot pattern?:
I AM/ a PIR/ate WITH/ a WOOD/en LEG
Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables OR iambic pentameter.
This is the definition of hyperbole.
What is an intentional exaggeration used for emphasis.
This is a poem that lacks regular rhyme, meter, and stanza division.
What is free verse?
The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy;
But I hung on like death:
Such waltzing was not easy.
(Figurative language suggesting strength of the relationship as well as the roughhousing)
What is the simile "But I hung on like death"
This is the metaphor for the sun in Sonnet 18, line 5.
What is “the eye of heaven”?
This is the repetition of sounds in the following line:
“He struck the clock with a quick flick”
What is consonance?
This is the definition of personification.
What is the term for giving human qualities to nonhuman things?
This is the term for the basic rhythmic structure of a line of poetry.
What is meter?
A B A B
The whiskey on your breath A
Could make a small boy dizzy; B
But I hung on like death: A
Such waltzing was not easy. B
What is the lettering called?
What is the poem’s rhyme scheme for the first stanza, using letters?
What is iambic pentameter?
A word that imitates a sound (example: buzz)
Onomatopeoia
This is the definition of a speaker in poetry.
What is the literary term for the person who narrates a poem (not the poet).
These are the ideas and emotions associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition.
What are connotations?
Could make a small boy dizzy
(Where would you add the unstressed (u) and stressed (') syllables?
U / U / U / U
Could make a small boy dizzy
OR
Could make a small boy dizzy
“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
These two lines are called the final___________
What is the final couplet?
______ is the author's attitude toward the subject; ______is the emotional atmosphere experienced by the reader.
What are TONE and MOOD?