Poetic Device Flashcards
Personification
Capital letter
A thing or animal is given human attribute
Metaphor
Indirect Comparison
Imagery
Description create a picture in the reader’s mind
Hyperbole
Exaggeration
Assonance
Repetition of two or more vowel sounds
Simile
Mentioning of similarities btw two by using the word “like”, “as”
Refrain
It is a word, line or phrase that is repeated within the line or stanzas of the poem itself
Antithesis
It is two terms or idea having contrast or opposite meaning
Transferred Epithet
It is when an adjective usually used to describe one thing is transferred to another
Rhetorical Question
Asked when the speaker already knows the answer, asked to make a point rather than expecting or needing any information or answer from the listener
Allegory
Saying a strong message through something by self distancing . Used to preach a moral lesson.
Consonant
It is a stylistic literary device identified by the repetition of identical or similar consonants sound in neighbouring words whose vowel sound are different
Anthropomorphism
Study about human in the subject of science and social science
Epithet
It is a word or a phase which describes the main quality of someone or something
Couplet
It is literary device featuring two consecutive lines of poetry that typically rhyme and have the same meter
Connotation
Suggested beyond what is expected
Allusion
It will reference to a place, person, a work of literature or something that happened in history
Symbolism
Symbolise something beyond its literal meaning to convey complex ideas, emotions, and themes
Irony
Contrast with literal interpretation, having rhetorical meaning
Apostrophe
Address / call out a non living entity
Pun
Also called as paronomasia. Have two or more meaning (like double meaning) in humorous or rhetorical effect
Euphemism
Expressing a hard term in mild way
Apostrophe and personification difference
- Personification gives human qualities to animals, object, and ideas.
- Apostrophe has characters talking aloud to objects and ideas as if they were human.
Synecdoche
It is about a part is made to represent the whole or vice verse
Ex: Saying that “I’ve got wheels” instead of “I have a car”
Paradox
It is about the statement appears to contradict itself
Ex: To bring peace we must war
Be cruel to be kind
Onomatopoeia
It creates a rhythmic pattern that imitates the sound in reality. It is use to words to create a metrical pattern and rhyme scheme
Rhyming word
Last words of more than one line have same rhyming
Rhyme scheme
Similar to rhyming word; but answering it in scheme of the 4 lines or more in a way of patterns
Alliterated words
Same starting letter words in same line with different meaning - Repeating of consonants sound at the beginning of words
Oxymoron
It is a rhetorical device:
contradictory terms(two) or concepts are combined to create a paradoxical effect.
Anapora