Poetic Devices
A reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.
Allusion.
A shift in a poem that marks a shift in thought or direction.
Volta
Identify two kinds of sonnets
English & Italian
Name the poem:
"Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read"
Ozymandias
What do you call two lines that rhyme (usually at the end of a sonnet).
Couplet.
When the outcome of a situation is different from what is expected.
Irony
A single line of poetry
verse
Identify the author:
"and in her face there seemed to come an air of pity, true or false, that I discerned.
Petrarch
Name the poem:
"I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike."
"Mirror"
Create a 3-word alliteration.
"Silver Seagulls Sang" for example.
What poetic device is used in the following verse? You must also give the definition of that poetic device.
"I had love's tinder in my breast unburned"
This is a metaphor from Petrarch's Sonnet 90, which is a comparison between two unlike things without using the word "like" or "as".
Here, the love in the speaker's heart is being compared to unburned tinder through metaphor.
The author's specific word choice.
Diction.
Identify the author:
"A heavenly spirit is what I saw; now, if it is not so, the wound's not healed because the bow grows slack
Petrarch
Name the author:
"Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality."
Emily Dickinson
"Shall I compare thee to a ___ ____?"
summer's day
The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close to each other
For example: "crying time"
Assonance
The attitude the poem’s narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character.
Tone
How many lines in a Sonnet? How many syllables per line? What is typically the subject of a sonnet?
14 lines
10 Syllables
Sonnets are typically about love.
Name the name of the poem and the author:
"Harlem laughing in all the wrong places at the crocodile tears of crocodile art that you know in your heart is crocodile"
"Movies" by Langston Hughes
What is "the caged bird" a metaphor for in Maya Angelou's poem "Caged Bird"?
People in America without equal rights and freedom, specifically, African Americans.
Name one literary device included in the following line, from "Ozymandias"
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay. Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare.
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Irony, Imagery, Juxtaposition
An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.
Symbol
Fill in the blank from the Shakespearean sonnet:
"My mistress's eyes are nothing like the ____"
Sun
Name the author
"We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground –
The Roof was scarcely visible –
The Cornice – in the Ground –
Emily Dickinson
What is the name of the woman to whom Petrarch wrote 366 sonnets?