Poetic Devices Flashcards
Allegory
Is used when a story or poem deciphered to have secondary meaning
Alliteration
The repetition of a sound or letter at the beginning of multiple words
Allusion
Is an indirect reference a.k.a. foreshadowing
Apostrophe
Is used when the writer addresses the person who is not present with an exclamation
Assonance
Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in a series of words, phrases or syllables
Blank verse
Is a verse which does not have any rhyme and uses iambic pentameter
Consonance
Is when repetitive sounds are produced within a sentence or phrase
Couplets
A simple to line poem that rhymes is a couplet. each line shell consist of the same number of syllables. They are often silly
Enjambment
The practice of running lines of poetry from one to the next without using any kind of punctuation to indicate a stop
Metaphor
A metaphor compares one item with another by saying it is the other item
Meter
Traditional forms of verse use established rhythmic patterns called meters
Onomatopoeia
Words which represent or imitate natural sounds e.g. thunk, whoosh, pop
Personification
When human qualities, feelings are given to nonliving things or inanimate objects. It is used to show that an item or thing has performed an action when in reality it has/could not
Repetition
Repeating a word to enhance effect
Rhyme scheme
A rhyming pattern that is created at the end of lines of poetry
