Fig. Lang 1
Fig. Lang 2
Poetic Devices
Sonnets
Author's Word Choice
100

A comparison between two things. 

Metaphor 

100

A comparison between two things using like or as. 

Simile 

100

A group of words arranged together in a row. 

Line 

100

How many lines are in a Shakespearean sonnet? 

14

100

The author's attitude toward the subject. 

Tone

200

An extreme exaggeration 

Hyperbole

200

Giving human characteristics to nonhuman things 

Personification 

200

The repetition of final consonant sounds. 

Consonance 

200

How many lines are in a quatrain? 

Couplet? 

2

200

The reader's attitude toward the subject 

Mood

300
Two opposing terms used as one
Oxymoron
300

Jokes that use the different meanings of a word (dad jokes) 

Pun

300

The repetition of internal vowel sounds 

Assonance 

300

What is the rhyme scheme of a sonnet? 

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG 

300

The dictionary definition of a word. 

Denotation

400

Words that imitate the sounds they are making. 

Onomatopoeia 

400

A phrase where the figurative meaning is different from its literal meaning. 

+100 if you can provide an example as well

Idiom


Examples vary 

400

A group of lines separated from others. 

Stanza. 

400

How many syllables does each line in a sonnet consist of? 

10

400

The figurative meaning of a word. 

Connotation

500

When the audience knows something that the characters don't. 

Dramatic Irony 

500

A police officer gets robbed. 

Situational Irony 

500

The rhythm of the poem. 

Meter

500

5 Meters, each meter consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

Iambic Pentameter 

500

Provide an example of a words denotation and connotation. 

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