Poetry Literary Devices Flashcards
What is a Stanza?
A set of lines in a poem.
What is a Couplet?
A Stanza or poem with 2 lines
What is a Tercet?
A Stanza or poem with 3 lines
What is a Quatrain?
A Stanza or poem with 4 lines
What is an Epigraph?
Starting a piece of writing with a quotation.
What is an Allusion?
A reference to something the reader is familiar with
What is Imagery?
Sensory language used to evoke emotion
What is Personification?
Giving human characteristics to a nonliving thing
What is a Hyperbole?
Extreme exaggeration
What is a Euphemism?
A nice way of saying something
What is a Dysphemism?
A mean or harsh way of saying something
What is a Euphony?
A pleasant sounding word, phrase, or line
What is a Cacophony?
A harsh or ugly-sounding word, phrase, or line
What is an Onomatopoeia?
A word that is a sound.
What is Alliteration?
Repetition of the first sounds of words
What is Consonance?
Repetition of the Consonant (non-vowel) sounds
What is Assonance?
Repetition of the Vowel sounds
What is a Caesura?
When punctuation creates a pause for the reader in the middle of a line of poetry
What is End-stopped?
When a punctuation creates a pause for the reader at the end of a line of poetry
What is Enjambment?
When there is no punctuation at the end of a line of poetry so the reader does not pause between lines.
