Building Blox and Rhythms
a group of lines within a poem (similar to a paragraph in a novel)
"blue buzzed bees bit Billy"
alliteration
a pair of rhymed lines in a poem
couplet
'the trees are dancing in the wind'
personification
descriptive words that make a reader imagine how something looks/feels/smells/tastes/sounds
imagery
the repetition of consonant sounds (Sally laughed illiterately in hell)
consonance
a common phrase that makes no literal sense, whose meaning derives from custom (to go to hell in a handbasket)
idiom
a reoccurring element in a poem
motif
onomatopoeia
a type of writing that contains purposeful rhythm, structure, sound, and a dense use of literary devices
poetry
syndeton
He was hungry as an ox
(NOT simile or alliteration)
hyperbole
when a whole line rhymes with another whole line
holorime
a deliberate form of understatement using a negative (the winter's not my favorite)
litotes
an expression substituted for one considered too harsh or taboo (I didn't get fired, I got let go)
euphemism
"lend me your ears"
synecdoche
What lit. device is represented by the all-caps words below? (not metaphor)
I stare directly at the sun but never in the MIRROR
It must be exhausting always rooting for the ANTI-HERO
slant/half/near rhyme
You're hot and you're cold, you're yes and you're no
(NOT parallelism)
juxtaposition or antithesis
the inversion of natural word order- how Yoda speaks (Writing this question, I am)
hyperbaton
"when the going gets tough, the tough get going"
chiasmus