Poetry Devices Flashcards
Alliteration inside words, often vowels
Assonance
Consonant sounds at the end of words
Consonance “wet set of regrets”
Harsh sounds making a discordant sound
Cacophony
Repeating words to draw focus and add emphasis
Repetition
Rhythm of ‘reduce’
Iamb/Iambic
Rhythm of ‘deadline’
Trochee/Trochaic
Rhythm of ‘to the beach’
Anapest/Anapestic
Rhythm of ‘frequenty’
Dactly/Dactylic
Rhythm of ‘true blue’
Spondee/Spondaic
Something symbolic, representing larger things
Allegory
Referring to something well known
Allusion
A word or idea meaning more than one thing
Ambiguity/Ambiguous
Something which is used a great amount and becomes expected and cheesy
Cliché
Closely placed ideas which are very different
Contrast
The literal definition for something without reading too deeply into it
Denotation/Denote
Where someting distasteful is said in a more acceptable way
Euphemism
Deliberate use of a false or misleading statement in a way that makes the truth apparent
Irony
Two words placed together with differing meanings
Oxymoron
A situation or statement which contradicts itself
Paradox
Describing an inanimate object with animal or human qualities
Personification
A line of a poem
Verse
The three popular rhyme schemes
- Alternate: abab
- Cross rhyme: abba
- Couplets: aabb
Stanzas of four lines
Quatrains
Iambic pentameter with not consistent rhyme
Blank verse
