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Poetry Devices Flashcards

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Alliteration inside words, often vowels

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Assonance

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Consonant sounds at the end of words

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Consonance “wet set of regrets”

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Harsh sounds making a discordant sound

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Cacophony

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Repeating words to draw focus and add emphasis

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Repetition

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Rhythm of ‘reduce’

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Iamb/Iambic

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Rhythm of ‘deadline’

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Trochee/Trochaic

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Rhythm of ‘to the beach’

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Anapest/Anapestic

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Rhythm of ‘frequenty’

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Dactly/Dactylic

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Rhythm of ‘true blue’

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Spondee/Spondaic

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Something symbolic, representing larger things

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Allegory

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Referring to something well known

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Allusion

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A word or idea meaning more than one thing

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Ambiguity/Ambiguous

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Something which is used a great amount and becomes expected and cheesy

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Cliché

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Closely placed ideas which are very different

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Contrast

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The literal definition for something without reading too deeply into it

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Denotation/Denote

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Where someting distasteful is said in a more acceptable way

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Euphemism

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Deliberate use of a false or misleading statement in a way that makes the truth apparent

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Irony

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Two words placed together with differing meanings

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Oxymoron

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A situation or statement which contradicts itself

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Paradox

20
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Describing an inanimate object with animal or human qualities

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Personification

21
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A line of a poem

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Verse

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The three popular rhyme schemes

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  • Alternate: abab
  • Cross rhyme: abba
  • Couplets: aabb
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Stanzas of four lines

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Quatrains

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Iambic pentameter with not consistent rhyme

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Blank verse

25
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3 quatrains and a couplet

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Sonnet

26
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Large poems in quatrains often telling a story

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Ballads

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Using weather or environment to reflect the themes and contexts of the poem

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Pathetic fallacy

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Where languages is used to evoke the senses

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Sensory imagery

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The overlapping and blending of senses

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Synaesthesia

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