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Poetry Devices
Review for Poetry Test ELA 8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| alliteration | The repetition of initial consonant sounds (draws attention to certain words, imitate sounds, create musical effects) |
| imagery | Words that appeal to the senses (seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching) |
| symbol | stands for or represents something else |
| denotation | dictionary meaning of a word |
| connotation | emotional meaning of a word |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds within a series of words |
| consonance | the repetition of consonant sounds at the end of and within words of close proximity |
| internal rhyme | a rhyme created by two or more words in the same line of verse |
| setting | time and place |
| theme | main idea or underlying meaning of a work |
| motif | recurrent image, word, phrase, character, or situation |
| flashback | a scene that interrupts the sequence of events to relate events that occurred in the past |
| metaphor | comparing two unlike things without using like or as |
| foreshadowing | a series of hints or clues that give the reader a sense of what is to come |
| blank verse | unrhymed verse, especially unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| irony | a twist in what is expected |
| oxymoron | links two opposite or contradictory words |
| tone | The attitude that the writer takes towards his subject |
| allusion | a reference to a well-known person, event, place, literary work, or work of art |
| rhyme scheme | a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem |
| anaphora | repetition of a word or expression at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, sentences, or verses especially for rhetorical or poetic effect |
| foreshadowing | a series of hints or clues that give the reader a sense of what is to come |
| blank verse | unrhymed verse, especially unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| stanza | A repeated grouping of two or more lines in a poem that often share a pattern of rhythm and rhyme. |
| personification | figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics |
| paradox | the use of concepts or ideas that are contradictory to one another, yet, when placed together hold significant value on several levels |
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