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Poetic Devices
Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Rhythm | The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables. Provides the poem’s beat. Example: A gentleman dining at Crewe |
| Meter | A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Below the stressed words are italicized. “To be or not to be”- Shakespeare. |
| Rhyme | Most rhyme in poetry is END RHYME. When the two rhyming lines are consecutive (one after the other), they’re called a COUPLET. Example: “The Panther” The panther is like a leopard, Except it hasn’t been peppered. |
| Internal Rhyme | Internal rhymes— rhyme within lines of poetry |
| Approximate (near, slant) Rhymes | Rhymes involving sounds that are similar but not exactly the same. Example: leave/live |
| Eye/Visual Rhymes | Rhymes involving the words that are spelled similarly but pronounced differently. Example: tough/cough---eye rhyme tough/rough---real rhyme |
| Rhyme Scheme | The pattern of end rhymes in a poem. To indicate rhyme scheme, use a separate letter of the alphabet for each end rhyme. |
| Free Verse | In free verse, poets do not have to write in meter or use a regular rhyme scheme. They do repeat sentence patterns. Example: from “Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun” |
| Ballad | Song like poem that tells a story. Often a sad story of betrayal, death, or loss Easy to memorize |
| Epic Poem | LONG narrative poem that tells a story. About the DEEDS of a GREAT HERO. Heroes of epics have so far been male. Ex: “The Odyssey” by Homer |
| Narrative Poem | A poem that tells a story---a series of related events. Ex: Excerpt from Handstand by Linda Sue Pak |
| Lyric Poem | Poem that does NOT tell a story. Expresses the personal opinions of a speaker |
| Ode | Long LYRIC poem Usually praising some subject, and written in dignified language Ex: Ode to Cheese by Life Poem |
| Sonnet | Fourteen-line lyric poem that follows strict rules of structure, meter, and rhyme. |
| Elegy | A poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died. Ex: An Elegy by Dr. Kamran Bukari |
| Limerick | A short humorous or nonsensical poem. Has 5 lines aabba rhyme scheme Tells a brief story |
| Haikus | Most widely known form of Japanese poetry Consists of 3 lines and a total of 17 syllables: five syllables each in lines 1 and 3 and 7 syllables in line 2 |
| Cinquain | Triangles pointy edges revolving, rotating, angling Triangles are all different.180o |
| Stanza | A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit. Something like a paragraph in prose. A stanza may consist of any number of lines; it may even consist of a single line. |
| Hyperbole | Exaggeration or overstatement of something for the purpose of creating a comic effect. Example: He’s so thin that if he turned sideways, he’d disappear. |
| Figure of Speech | A word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of another and is not meant to be understood as literally true. |
| Simile | A comparison using like, as, than, or resemble |
| Metaphor | A comparison that doesn’t use like or as |
| Personification | Giving human qualities to something that is not living |
| Imagery | Language that appeals to the senses. Sight, sound, taste, touch, smell. They create pictures in the readers’ minds. |
| Alliteration | The repetition of consonant sounds in several words that are close together. Example: Sally sells seashells by the seashore. |
| Assonance | When vowel sounds are repeated. Example: “I sipped the rim with palatable lip.” The short “I” sound is present in sipped, rim, and lip. |
| Onomatopoeia | Sounds in words that imitate their meaning. Example: rustle, sizzle, snap, crackle, or pop |
| Allusion | A reference to a statement, a person, a place, or an event from literature, the arts, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, or science. Example: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech “I Have a Dream” alludes to the song “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee.” |
| Prose | Any writing that is NOT POETRY. |
| Symbol | A person, a place, a thing, or an event that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself as well. In literature, symbols are often personal and surprising. In “Sweater” a sweater symbolizes a grandmother’s love and caring. |
| Theme | The general idea or insight about life that a work of literature reveals. An idea or message that the writer wishes to convey about a subject. Example: Innocent people often suffer in times of conflict. Good will triumph over evil. |
| Tone | The attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and audience. Example: humorous---”Ode to a Toad” passionate and sincere---”I Have a Dream” |
| Extended Metaphor | A metaphor that is extended, or developed, over several lines of writing or even throughout an entire work. Excerpt of an extended metaphor poem |
| Paradox | A true statement or group of statements that leads to a contradiction or situation which defies logic or intuition. In literature, the paradox can be resolved upon further inspection. |
| Connotation | An emotional meaning or association, suggested by a word, in addition to its dictionary definition. Example: determined/pigheaded cop/pig incarcerated/in jail |
| Denotation | The basic definition or dictionary definition of a word. |
Created by:
Joshua Brown
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