Poetic Devices and Lit Techniques

Question 1

Alliteration

Answer 1

a stylistic device in which consecutive words or words that occur together in a series all begin with the same first consonant letter or sound (repeated starting sounds)

Question 2

Cacophonous

Answer 2

harsh and unpleasant combination of words (harsh consonants)

Question 3

Connotation

Answer 3

associations and emotional overtones attached

Question 4

Denotation

Answer 4

dictionary definition

Question 5

Diction

Answer 5

The poet’s choice of words which can be formal or informal

Question 6

Euphonious

Answer 6

the pleasing and harmonious arrangement of sounds (alliteration, assonance)

Question 7

Extended Metaphor

Answer 7

a comparison between two unlike things developing and elaborated upon throughout multiple lines or stanzas

Question 8

Free Verse

Answer 8

poetry without a fixed pattern of meter and rhyme (has no rules)

Question 9

Iambic Pentameter

Answer 9

unstressed + stressed (two syllables), 5 stressed syllables per line

Question 10

Imagery

Answer 10

language used for visual illustrations or representation of a sensory experience; giving a person the experience of something through description of the 5 senses; the second type of imagery also uses devices like simile and mynotomy

Question 11

Line

Answer 11

could be used for pacing or emphasizing certain ideas

Question 12

Metaphor

Answer 12

The distinct comparison where one thing or idea substitutes for another “A Verb Like Be”

Question 13

Meter

Answer 13

the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

Question 14

Onomatopoeia

Answer 14

a word which imitates the natural sound of a thing

Question 15

Personification

Answer 15

attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things

Question 16

Poetry

Answer 16

literary work focusing on the expression of feelings and ideas through rhythm

Question 17

Repetition

Answer 17

repeating words or phrases

Question 18

Rhyme

Answer 18

a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words (especially common at the ends of words)

Question 19

Rhythm

Answer 19

pleasing to the ear and also lends a sense of rhythm and order to the language

Question 20

Perfect Rhyme

Answer 20

when stressed syllables along with all subsequent syllables

Question 21

Slant Rhyme/Imperfect Rhyme

Answer 21

involves the repetition of similar sounds that are not quite as precise as perfect rhyme

Question 22

Rhythm

Answer 22

pleasingly arranged sounds through stress or duration

Question 23

Simile

Answer 23

the comparison of two objects using the words “like” or “as”

Question 24

Sonnet

Answer 24

14 line poem, typically w 10 syllables a line

Question 25

Stanza

Answer 25

a group of lines in a poem

Question 26

Syntax

Answer 26

arrangement of words in a sentence regarding its order and grouping

Question 27

Tone

Answer 27

author's attitude towards the text

Question 28

Theme

Answer 28

is a message about life or human nature implicitly conveyed through the text, a lesson

Question 29

Voice

Answer 29

perspective, tone, reliability of narrator

Question 30

SIFFTSIS

Answer 30

Speaker, Imagery, Form, Figurative Language, Tone/Theme, Setting or device of sounds, Irony, Symbolism

Question 31

Shakespearean Sonnet Characteristics

Answer 31

14 lines, three quatraints and a couplet, first introduces subject, second complicates it, third and couplet revolve/alter it, Iambic Pentameter