AP Lang Glossary #3 Flashcards
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Poetic device
A device used in poetry to manipulate the sound of words, sentences or lines.
Alliteration
The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words.
Alliteration
Ex: “Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore”
Alliteration
Are common in poems and can provide rhythm to a text. a “pulse”
Assonance
The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds.
Assonance
Ex: “From the molten-golden notes”
Assonance
Used to create rhythm in a text, Similar to an alliteration.
Consonance
The repetition of the same consonant sound at the end of words or within words.
Consonance
Ex: “Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door”
Consonance
used to bring attention to a particular sound, used in poems
Onomatopoeia
The use of a word which imitates or suggests the sound that the thing makes.
Onomatopoeia
Snap, rustle, boom, murmur
Onomatopoeia
To create the effect of a sound within a poem or story.
Internal rhyme
When a line of poetry contains a rhyme within a single line.
Internal rhyme
“To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!”
Internal rhyme
To change the rhythm of the poem
Slant rhyme
When a poet creates a rhyme, but the two words do not rhyme exactly – they are merely similar.
Slant rhyme
“I sat upon a stone, / And found my life has gone.”
Slant rhyme
Used to make poetry and prose sound more cohesive.
End rhyme
When the last word of two different lines of poetry rhyme.
End rhyme
“Roses are red, violets are blue, / Sugar is sweet, and so are you.”
End rhyme
Used to change the rhythm of the poem
Rhyme Scheme
The pattern of a poem’s end rhymes.
Rhyme Scheme
rhyme scheme of a b a b c d c d:
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? a
Thou art more lovely and more temperate. b
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. a
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. b
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines c
And often is his gold complexion dimmed d
And every fair from fair sometime declines c
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed d
