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Poetic Devices
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other |
| Assonance | Repeated vowel sounds in words placed near each other |
| Consonance | Repeated consonant sounds at the ending of words placed near each other |
| Cacophony | A discordant series of harsh, unpleasant sounds helps to convey disorder |
| Euphony | A series of musically pleasant helps to convey harmony and beauty |
| Onomatopoeia | Words that sound like their meaning such as boom, buzz, or crackle |
| Repetition | The purposeful re-use of words and phrases for an effect |
| Rhyme | Words that have different beginning sounds but whose ending sounds are alike |
| Rhythm | A regular pattern of accented syllables separated by unaccented syllables |
| Allegory | Representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning |
| Allusion | A brief reference to some person, historical event, work of art, or biblical or mythological situation or character |
| Ambiguity | A word or phrase that can mean more than one thing |
| Analogy | A comparison usually between something familiar with something unfamiliar |
| Apostrophe | Speaking directly to a real or imagined listener or inanimate object; addressing that person or thing by name |
| Cliche | Any figure of speech that was once clever and original but through overuse has become outdated |
| Connotation | The emotional, physochological or social overtones of a word |
| Contrast | Closely arranged things with strikingly different characteristics |
| Denotation | The dictionary definition of a word |
| Euphemism | An understatement, used to lessen the effect of a statement |
| Hyperbole | An outrageous exaggeration used for effect |
| Irony | A contradictory statement or situation to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true |
| Metaphor | A direct comparison between two unlike things |
| Metonymy | A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something close to it |
| Oxymoron | A combination of two words that contradict each other |
| Paradox | A statement in which a seeming contradiction may reveal an unexpected truth |
| Personification | Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea |
| Pun | Word play in which words with totally different meanings have similar or identical sounds |
| Simile | A direct comparison between two unlike things using like or as |
| Symbol | An ordinary object, event, animal, or person to which we have attached extraordinary meaning and significance |
| Synecdoche | Indicating a object by letting only a certain part represent the whole |
| Point of view | Concentrates on the teller or speaker of the poem |
| Line | Marking an important visual distinction from prose |
| Verse | One single line of a poem arranged in a metrical pattern |
| Stanza | A division of a poem created by arranging the lines into a unit |
| Rhetorical question | A question solely for effect and does not require an answer |
| Rhyme scheme | The pattern established by the arrangement of lines in a stanza or poem |
| Enjambment | The continuation of the logical sense beyond the end of a line of poetry |
| Form | The arrangement or method used to convey the content |
| Open form | Poetic form free from regularity and consistency in elements such as rhyme, line length, and metrical form |
| Closed form | Poetic form subject to a fixed structure and pattern |
| Blank verse form | Unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Free verse form | Lines with no prescribed pattern or structure |
| Couplet form | A pair of lines usually rhymed |
| Heroic couplet | A pair of rhymed lines in iambic pentameter |
| Quatrain form | A four-line stanza |
| Fixed form | A poem which follows a set pattern |
| Ballad | A narrative poem written as a series of quatrains |
| Ballade | A French form, consists of three or eight lined stanzas using no more than three recurrent rhymes |
| Concrete poetry | Poems that are printed on the page so that they form a recognizable outline related to the subject |
| Epigram | A pithy couplet or quatrain comprising a single thought of event |
| Epitaph | A brief poem or statement in memory of someone who is deceased |
| Haiku | A Japanese form of poetry consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables |
| Limerick | A light or humorous form of five chiefly anapestic verses of which lines one, two, and five are of three feet and lines three and four are of two feet |
| Lyric | Poetry originally designed to be sung |
| Ode | Any of several stanzaic forms more complex than the lyric |
| Pantoum | Consists of a varying number of four-line stanzas with lines rhyming alternately |
| Rondeau | A fixed form used mostly in light or witty verse |
| Sestina | A fixed form consisting six 6-line stanzas in which the end words of the first stanza recur as end words of the following five stanzas in a rotating order |
| Sonnet | A fourteen line poem in iambic pentameter with a prescribed rhyme scheme |
| Sonnet sequence | A series of sonnets in which there is a discernable unifying theme |
| Triolet | Poem or stanza of eight lines in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and seventh lines |
| Villanelle | A poem consisting of five 3-line stanzas followed by a quatrain and having only two rhymes |
| Imagery | The use of vivid language to generate ideas and/or evoke mental images |
| Synesthesia | An attempt to fuse different senses by describing one kind of sense impression in words normally used to describe another |
| Tone/mood | The means by which a poet reveals attitudes and feelings |
| Stanza forms | The names given to describe the number of lines in a stanzaic form |
| Sight | Ex. Smoke mysteriously puffed out from the clowns ears |
| Sound | Ex. Tom placed his ear tightly against the wall he could hear a faint but distinct thump thump thump |
| Touch | Ex. The burlap wall covering scraped against the little boys neck |
| Taste | Ex. A salty tear ran across onto her lips |
| Smell | Ex. Cinnamon! That's what wafted into his nostrils |
| Shakespearean sonnet | Style of sonnet used by Shakespeare with a rhyme scheme |
| Italian sonnet | A form of sonnet made popular by petrarch with rhyme scheme |
| Spenserian sonnet | A variant of the shakespearean form in which the quatrains are linked with a chain or interlocked rhyme scheme |
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