Poetic Devices Flashcards
Alliteration
Repetition of same letter sound at the beginning of a word within the same line or a sequence of nearby words
Consonance
Repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds in one line in a sequence of nearby words
Assonance
Repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds
Cacophony
The use of words that are unpleasent to the ear. Rough language
Euphony
Words that are pleasing to the ears smooth, pleasent
Paradox
A clear contradiction that can be true upon second thought
Oxymoron
Placing of opposites together to create a certain effect
Juxaposition
Place two images/ideas/objects side by side for purpose of comparison
Antithesis
Contrary opposite ideas placed in a grammatically balanced phrase
Personification
Giving inanimate objects, animals, or abstract ideas the feelings that humans have
Hyperbole
Exaggeration
Pathos
feelings of sorrow, pity, sympathy
synecdoche
Using part of something to represent its whole
Metonomy
giving an object the name of something it is very closely related with (a type of metaphor)
Apostrophe
speaking to someone who is etiher absent or something nonhuman as it were present/alive
Pun
play on wrds
Two types of structures
Caesura and Enjambment
Caesura
Using periods, commas and other punctuation within one line
-interrupt thought/emotion
Enjambment
When a line of poetry ends but the thought continues into the next line
-emphasizes the parts of the thought or emotion for dramatic effect, urgency, tension
Forms of poetry and explain each one
Free verse
-no consistent set of lines in a stanza or any rhyme scheme
Lyrical
-thoughts and feelings
Ballad
-a story
Narrative
-a longer story (2 pages)
