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Poetic Devices Flashcards

1
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Alliteration

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Repeating sounds

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Assonance

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Repetition of vowel sounds

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Consonance

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Repetition of consonant sound

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Allusion

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Something references to something familiar (that test was the atomic bomb)

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Analogy

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Extended comparison of two things that are similar but not exactly alike that has reasoning behind it (life is like a box of chocolate)

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Anecdote

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A short story that is amusing (sky diving story)

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Antithesis

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Side by side ideas that are contradictory to each other (I laughed so hard I cried)

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Apostrophe

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Love of an inanimate object (poem about how much you love chocolate)

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9
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Archaic language

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Outdated language (groovy)

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10
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Aside

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When someone on stage talks to audience or other character but not everyone on stage hears

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11
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Blank poetry

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Possesses rhythm but not rhyme

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Cacophony/dissonance

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Harsh words or sounds (swear words)

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Catharsis

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Cleanse emotion after play, poem, movie etc. (crying after la miserable or a walk to remember)

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Character foil

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Two characters are the opposite (if billy likes ice cream we assume jinny does not)

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15
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Cliché

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Don’t count your chickens before they hatch

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Colloquial language

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Language we use every day (salty, like)

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17
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Compare

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View similarities between things

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Allegory

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Story has a moral or theme to learn from (tortoise and the hare)

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19
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Concealment

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When a character is hidden on stage from the actors but not the audience (romeo in garden)

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20
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Connotative meaning

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Associated meaning of a word (snitch=rat)

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21
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Contrast

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Differences between things

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22
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Couplet

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2 verses alike in meter are rhyme (for never was there a tail of more woe then that of Juliet and her Romeo)

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23
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Denotative meaning

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Dictionary meaning

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24
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Denouement

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Conclusion or resolution (princess peach in romeo and juliet)

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25
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Drugs ex machina

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A power that comes in the nick of time (if friar came in time)

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Diction

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The selected words

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27
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Dramatic monologue

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One sided conversation

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28
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Dynamic character

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Someone who changes (romeo)

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29
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Elegy

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A poem about someone dead

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30
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Empathy

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Feel another’s pain (walk in there shoes)

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31
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Epic

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Long poem about a heroic person

32
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Euphemism

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Change to “nice language” (social butterfly)

33
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Euphony

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Pleasant musical quality (wishing wanting)

34
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Flat character

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Easy character to sum up (prince in Romeo and juliet)

35
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Foreshadowing

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Hints about future

36
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Free verse

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Un-rhyming inspirational verse
Irregular meter
Many poetic devices

37
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Haiku

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5-7-5

38
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Hyperbole

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Huge exaggeration

39
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Imagery

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Appeal to Senses

40
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In media res

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Starting plot anywhere but beginning (lord of the rings)

41
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Initial incident

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Starts conflict ball rolling (going to caplet ball)

42
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Irony

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Intended meaning is opposite to what actually happens

43
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Dramatic irony

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Audience has more knowledge then charterers (Juliet’s really not dead)

44
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Situational irony

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Reader expects one thing to happen and the opposite happens (montage and capsules fall in love)

45
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Verbal irony

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Sarcasm

46
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Juxtaposition

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Cameron and fouda

47
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Meiosis

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Understatement

48
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Metaphor

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Direct comparison

49
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Controlling metaphor

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Whole poem is metaphor

50
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Extended metaphor

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Metaphor lasting for portion

51
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Meter

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A beat and pattern

52
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Mood atmosphere

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How you feel reading the poem

53
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Onomatopoeia

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Bang crash boom!

54
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Oxymoron

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Sweet sin. Jumbo shrimp.

55
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Paradox

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To make peace we must have war

56
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Parallelism

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Two things are alike/equal (life is like a box of chocolates)

57
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Pathetic fallacy

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When setting represents mood (horror movie in an alley)

58
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Pathos

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Sympathy for character

59
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Personification

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Wind whispered my name (wind can’t whisper)

60
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Pun

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Play on word

61
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Theoretical question

A

Do I look stupid to you

62
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Rhythm

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The beat which is present

63
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Round character

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Someone you can talk about a lot and Is capable of change

64
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Satire

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Making fun of society (jimmy Fallon)

65
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Simile

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Like as then comparison

66
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Soliloquy

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Monologue alone on stage about thoughts (friars speech)

67
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Sonnet

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14 line lyrical poem

68
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Stanza

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Block of text

69
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Static character

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Character that does not change (friar)

70
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Stereotype stock archetype

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Character that keeps appearing (damsel in distress)

71
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Symbolism

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Dove = peace
West = death
Etc.

72
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Synecdoche

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Give me a hand

lend me your ear

73
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Tone

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Attitude

74
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Tragedy

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Person who has heroic potential has a character flaw (romeo)

75
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Hamartia

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Fatal flaw (Romeos impulse)

76
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Parody

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Making fun with something recognizable

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