Poetry Targets Flashcards
Sound Devices
Cadence Onomatopoeia Assonance Alliteration Consonance Slant rhyme
Structure
Free verse
Parallel structure
Graphic Elements
Catalog
Dash
Poetic Devices
- Imagery
- Tone
- Simile
- Metaphor
- Personification
- Symbol
- Intentional ambiguity
- Paradox
- Pun
- Metaphysical poetry
- Allusion
Whitman’s major themes
- The democratic spirit
- The beauty of the individual
- The cycle of life
- Empathy
Dickinson’s major themes
- Seeing the macrocosm in the microcosm (the big in the little)
- Seeing the divine in the natural
- The inner world
- Death
- Pain/separation/ecstasy
Alliteration
How the lank loose-gowned woman looked…
Cadence
Long sweeping lines
Assonance
Similar vowel sounds
“The lIfted stick”
Onomatopoeia
Words that echo their meaning (buzz, whizz)
Consonance
The “z” sound in “for fear the numbers fuse”
Slant rhyme
Close but not exact rhyming sound
Figurative language
Describes one thing in terms of another and not meant to be taken literally
Simile
Like, as, than, resembles
Compares
Metaphor
Compares
Personification
An object is described as a human
Symbols
Both literal and figurative
Imagery
Using words to evoke sense experience
Ambiguity
A writer suggests two or more different and sometimes conflicting meaning
Intentional ambiguity
A writer suggests two or more different but compatible meanings
Tone
The attitude the writer takes toward the subject
Paradox
A statement that appears to be self-contradictory but reveals a kind of truth
Pun
Joke where a word is used to convey two meanings at the same time
Parallel structure
Repetition of the same or similar words, phrases, clauses, or sentences
