Poetic Devices Flashcards
What is alliteration?
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
What is apostrophe?
The poet directly addresses (speaks to) a person or thing, often the reader, a personified object or the audience.
What is Assonance?
The repetition of vowel sounds, but not consonant sounds. They can be repeated at the beginning, in the middle or end of words.
For Example: ”fleet feet sweep by sleeping geeks” – repetition of the e-sound
The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain– My Fair Lady
What is Allegory?
Allegory is a story, poem or other written work that can be interpreted to have another or secondary meaning.
What is an allusion?
Allusion is a reference to a person, event, or literary work outside the poem. Allusions are usually implied or indirect, and poems with allusions do not necessarily cite the work or historical event they are referencing.
What is a blank verse?
Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines.
What is consonance?
Consonance is the repetition of similar sounds – or consonants (non-vowels)
What is enjambment?
The running over of a sentence from one line of verse into the next, a continuation of the same thought.
What is hyperbole?
An extreme exaggeration. To make a point more dramatic, to over-emphasise a point
What is Irony?
Irony is the use of tone or exaggeration to convey a meaning opposite to what is being said.
What is imagery?
Descriptions that appeal to the five senses.
What is layout?
The layout of a text is the visual form the text is presented on a page, i.e. how the words and the sentences are arranged on a page.
What is a metaphor?
Indirect comparison between two unlikely things, when one is said to be the other
What is onomatopeia
Use of words which echo their
meaning in sound. The word
mimics the sound it names.
For example: boom, snap, buzz, beep, crackle, pop.
What is repetition?
Using the same words or phrases over and over.
