Poetic Devices (literary Devices) Flashcards
The repetition of initial constant sounds.example from Samuel Taylor K college “The Rime of the ancient mariner” the Fair breeze blew ,the white Foam Flew the Furrow Followed Free
Alliteration
Reference to a well-known person, place event, literary work or work of art
Allusion
Direct address to an absent person or personified quality object or idea
Apostrophe
The repetition of vowel sounds
Assonance
A natural pause or break in the middle of a line of poetry
Caesura
An unusual and surprising comparison between two very different things
Conceit
Consonance refers to repetitive sounds produced by Consonants within a sentence or phrase
Consonance
A line of poetry that concludes with a break in a meter and in the meaning
End-stop line
Deliberate, exaggeration, or overstatement
Hyperbole
A direct comparison between two objects with the intent of giving clear meaning to one of them
Metaphor
Atmosphere is a feeling created in the reader by a poem or literary work
Mood
Reoccurring literary convention, or an element repeated within a literary work
Motif
The use of a word which imitates sound
Onomatopoeia
Figure of speech that fuses to contradictory or opposing ideas
Oxymoron
A figure of speech, which endows animals ideas, or imitate objects with human traits of abilities
Personification
The author’s point of view contracts on the Vantage point of the speaker or teller of the story or poem
Point of view
The repeating of words, phrases, lines or stanza
Repetition
The similarity of ending sounds existing between two
Rhyme
The sequence in what’s the rhyme occurs
Rhyme scheme
Politic line that does not contain a positive or a stop at
Run on line
The process of analyzing the metrical pattern of a ball
Scansion
The imaginary voice assumed by the writer of the poem. The character who tells the poem
Speaker
A group of lines in a poem seen as a unit
Stanza
Anything that stands for represents something else
Symbol
Figure of speech in which a part of something is used to stand for a whole
Synecdoche
A comparison between two objects, using a specific word or comparison, such as like as or then
Simile
Central idea, concern or purpose
Theme
Writers attitude towards the readers and towards the subject
Tone
