Literary Devices Flashcards
“Loud silence” and “Cold fire” are examples of which type of literary device?
Oxymoron
“a passing or casual reference; an incidental mention of something, either directly or by implication” is the definition of which literary device?
Allusion
A figure of speech comparing two things using “like” or “as.”
Simile
Name the literary device:
The silent snake stopped slithering suddenly.
Alliteration
Define Alliteration
A repeated occurrence of a certain sound or syllable at the beginning of words in on a same line.
When you repeat an expression or a word at the beginning of adjacents lines
Anaphora
Define Caesura
A stop or pause in a metrical line, marked by punctuation; a mark or a break
The recurrence of similar sounds, especially consonants, in close proximity, either at the beginning,m in the middle, or at the end of words.
Consonance
Define Couplet
A stanza made of two lines
When a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same. In other words, a rhyming of the ends of two or more lines of verse.
End rhyme
Define End-stop line
A poetic device in which a natural pause takes place at the end of a line. Usually, in writing, this pause is expressed by punctuation, such as a colon, semi-colon, comma and period.
When a sentence continues at the end of a line into the next line
Enjambment
Define Internal rhyme
When at least two words rhyme within a single line.
Define Meter
Number of feet or repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables within a line.
Define Quatrain
A stanza, or an entire poem made of four lines, often having an alternate rhyme scheme.
Same words or phrases repeated several times in order to emphasize an idea and make it clearer.
Repetition
Define Rhyme Scheme
The pattern of the rhymes that comes from the end of each line of the poem. Basically, it is the arrangement of the rhymes.
