Poem Notes Flashcards
Diction
Word Choice
Meaning Devices
The use of diction and figurative language (metaphor, simile, personification, allusion, apostrophe, synecdoche, etc.) to convey ideas
Metaphor
The most important and wide spread figure of speech, One thing, idea, or action referred to by a word or expression normally associated with another thing, idea or action
Simile
A less direct metaphor, using like or as
Personification
The technique by which animals, abstract ideas, or inanimate objects are referred to as if they were human
Allusion
An indirect or passing reference to an event, person, place or artistic work that the author assumes the reader will understand
Apostrophe
A rhetorical device in which the speaker addresses (speaks to) a dead or absent person, or an inanimate object
Imagery
The purposeful and meaningful use of words appealing to any of the senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, smell)
Synecdoche
Figure of speech that utilizes a part of something to represent the whole.
Sound
The intentional use of consonant/vowel sounds (assonance, alliteration, rhyme, etc.) and accented/unaccented syllables (rhythm/meter) to add emphasis or create an intended effect
Assonance
The general repetition of vowel sounds in poetry
Consonance
The general repetition of consonant sounds in poetry
Alliteration
The repetition of sounds at the beginnings of words
Exact Rhyme
When words intended to rhyme mirror each other almost exactly in their consonance and assonance
End Rhyme
Words rhyme at the ends of lines
