Verse
While prose is divided up into paragraphs, poems are divided into these.
What are stanzas?
This is the name for a *single unit* of stressed and/or unstressed syllables within a verse.
What is a foot?
This is the word for when a single consonant sound is repeated several times at the start of each word, such as, "fame is a fickle friend."
What is alliteration?
This is the name for giving an inanimate object human characteristics, like saying, "My dishwasher has a mind of its own."
What is personification?
This is the word for when a sentence or idea goes across multiple verses in a poem.
What is enjambment?
This is the name for poems that are written with lots of end rhymes (and are metered)
What is rhyming verse?
This is the name of a foot that has one unstressed syllable then one stressed syllable (u / ).
What is an iamb?
This is the name for a word that makes the same sound that it is describing (like "buzz" or "beep").
What is onomatopoeia?
The typical definition of this kind of figurative language is the comparison of two unlike things, using "as" or "like."
What is a simile?
These lines from "Cuff It" by Beyoncé feature this kind of sound device:
Bet you you'll see far
Bet you you'll see stars
Bet you you'll elevate
Bet you you'll meet God
What is anaphora?
This is how you'd describe a poem that is written without regular rhythm or rhyme.
What is free verse?
Words with two rhyming syllables (like "master" and "vaster") are called by this kind of rhyme.
What is feminine rhyme?
This sound device involves a particular vowel sound repeated near each other in a poem (such as in the word "crockpot").
What is assonance?
This is the ground of the metaphor, "Life is a highway."
What is unpredictability/a journey, or something of the sort?
Similar to the chorus of a song, this is the name for a line that repeats or reappears in a poem.
What is a refrain?
Much of Shakespeare's plays are written in this kind of verse, because they are not rhyming but ARE written in iambic pentameter.
What is blank verse?
Trochaic pentameter and iambic pentameter both have this many feet per verse.
What is five?
The following lines by Chappell Roan use this poetic device:
You ruin your life,
You losing your mind,
You dyeing your hair
What is anaphora?
In the lines, "But you keep my old scarf from that very first week/ 'Cause it reminds you of innocence/ And it smells like me," the scarf is functioning as this sort of figurative language.
What is a symbol?
This is how we refer to the voice or the narrator of a poem.
What is a speaker?
The owner of the plums is this figure in the poem below.
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
Who is the addressee?
The chorus of "Dear John" by Taylor Swift is an example of this kind of rhyme scheme, which includes this kind of end rhyme. (looking for a 2-part answer)
Dear John, I see it all, now it was wrong
Don't you think nineteen is too young
To be played by your dark twisted games, when I loved you so?
I should've known
What is AABB rhyme scheme and slant rhyme?
This line from Bo Burnham's song "That Funny Feeling" features this sound device, because of all the short "e" sounds:
"Deadpool's self awareness, loving parents, harmless fun"
What is assonance?
This is the *vehicle* of the (implicit) metaphor in these lines from "I Know the End" by Phoebe Bridgers.
I'm always pushing you away from me
But you come back with gravity
And when I call, you come home
A bird in your teeth
What is a dog (who's brought home a dead bird as a gift <3)?
This is how "they" torture poems in "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins
What is tying a poem to a chair and beating it with a hose?