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Poetic Devices
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| allegory | a story or poem in which characters or events stand for other people or events or for abstract ideas or qualities |
| alliteration | the reptition of consonant sounds |
| allusion | a reference to another literary work or character |
| analogy | a comparison of two things to how they are alike |
| aphorism | a brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wide observation |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| ballad | a song or poem that tells a story |
| blank verse | unhymed or unrhythmic poetry |
| concrete poem | words are arranged on the page to give a visual interpretation |
| connotation | the emotional overtones that have become attached to a word or phrase |
| denotation | the strict dictionary definition |
| diction | a speaker's or writer's choice of words |
| elegy | a poem of mourning |
| epic | a long narrative poem which accounts the deeds of a heroic character who embodies the values of a society |
| epithet | a descriptive phrase used to characterize a person or thing |
| fable | a story to teach a lesson |
| foot | a metrical unit of poetry |
| hyperbole | an extreme exaggeration for effect |
| imagery | the use of language to evoke a picture or a concrete sensation of a person, place, thing or an experience |
| irony | a discrepancy between appearances and reality |
| lyric poem | a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feeling of a speaker |
| metaphor | a direct comparison of two things |
| simile | a comparison using like or as |
| octave | eight line poem |
| theme | the insight about human life that is revealed in a literary work |
| onamatopia | the use of sounds that echo their sense |
| oxymoron | combines opposite terms in a figure of speech - "bitter sweet" |
| paradox | a statement that seems false but is actually true - "less is more" |
| personification | a figure of speech in which an object or animal is give human elements |
| point of view | the vantage point from which the writer tells a story |
| rhetorical question | a question asked for effect and not for an answer |
| sonnet | a fourteen line poem that contains a twist after the eighth line |
| symbol | a person, place, thing or idea that represents something more than itself |
| tone | the attitude the author takes toward the subject of a work or character |
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