Poetic Devices and Analysis

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Size, type etc. associated with text.

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Font

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part of a scene, landscape, etc., which is near the viewer

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Foreground

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is a set or series of photographs that are intended to tell a story

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Photo Essay

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A single section of a comic, showing one moment in a story being told. Also called frame.
Most cartoons consist of a single frame. Comics have several.

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Panel

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the process or art of using paint, in a picture to convey a message/experience/memory

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Painting

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process or art of drawing in accordance with mathematical principles

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Graphics

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Cartoons (one panel) that deal with current news events or social, political, or
cultural issues

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Editorial Cartoon

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A sequence of drawings in boxes that tell an amusing story, typically printed in a
newspaper or comic book

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Comic Strip

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A form of art in which various materials such as photographs and pieces of paper or fabric are arranged and stuck to a backing.

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Collage

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employed by cartoonists, refers to exaggerated facial features of subjects.

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Caricature

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typically seen with caricatures, cartoons, comic strips, graphics and editorials to express views

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Speech balloon

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An object representing a feeling, idea etc

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Symbol

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it is an enclosed space, the boundaries of which are defined by other elements of art (i.e.: lines, colours, values, textures, etc.) Shape can help convey meaning

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Shape

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Light and shadows visually define objects. Values are the different shades of gray between white and black.

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Shadow

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the size or apparent size of an object seen in relation to other objects, people, or its
environment or format

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Scale

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the size relationship of parts to a whole and to one another.

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Proportion

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The illusion of creating dimensional views of objects. Through intersecting lines and by carefully spacing objects of different sizes, an illusion of depth can be created in a picture.

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Perspective

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can be considered in two ways. The linear marks are made with a pen or brush or the edge created when two shapes meet. Line also communicates emotion and states of mind through its character and direction.

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Line

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illumination, can often establish mood or serve a symbolic purpose

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Lighting

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(photographs) In visual arts including cinematography, framing is a technique used to focus the viewer’s attention upon the subject

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Frame

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Are objects in or out of focus. One way of creating a focal point in photographs.

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Focus

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what your eye is drawn to, the main element in a composition; A focal point draws your attention to the most important element on the page

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Focal Point

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is the juxtaposition of opposing elements eg. opposite colours on the colour wheel

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Contrast

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the bringing together of parts or elements to form a whole; the structure, organization, or total form of a work of art; the arrangement of the parts of a work of art as to form a unified, harmonious whole.

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Composition

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___ in design is similar to ___ in physics A large shape close to the center can be balanced by a small shape close to the edge. A large light toned shape will be balanced by a small dark toned shape (the darker the shape the heavier it appears to be). * There are three different types of balance: symmetrical, asymmetrical and radial.

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Balance

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(Also called hue) helps create mood, can provide contrast to a piece or compliment objects in artwork.

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Colour

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a picture taken with a camera. Distinguishable from an ad or poster as there is no editing or adding of text.

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Photograph

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distance part of a landscape; surroundings, especially those behind something, and providing harmony and contrast

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Background

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A poster contains images and text that convey a feeling or mood and a message.

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Poster

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a hard copy of text (as opposed to electronic)

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Print

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Rough sketches that show the content, sequence, and type of camera shots for a video production. Similar to a comic strip, each frame represents a few seconds of time as seen through the lens of a camera.

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Storyboard

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slant, or way of looking at or presenting something

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Angle

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A fixed nineteen-line form, originally French, employing only two rhymes and repeating two of the lines according to a set pattern.

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Villanelle

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No strict rhyme and rhythm - but usually there, just not in a measured way.

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Free Verse

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No strict rhyme but rhythm MUST be iambic pentameter.

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Blank Verse

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Strict rhyme and/or rhythm. Ex: sonnets, villanelles, haikus.

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Formal Verse

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A poem that is usually sung or recited.

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Ballad

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A long narrative poem that tells a story about characters of high position in adventures.

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Epic

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An elaborated lyric, expressed in dignified, sincere, and imaginative language with an intellectual tone.

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Ode

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A formal poem that is about a poet's thoughts on death, or another solemn theme.

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Elegy

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The form of a __ must be: 14 lines {three quatrains and one rhyming couplet}. The first eight lines reflect upon an idea, and the last 6 lines resolves that idea.

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Sonnet

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A brief, subjective poem strongly marked by imagination and emotion.

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Lyric Poetry

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The literal or dictionary term.

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Denotation

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The ideas or feelings a word evokes.

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Connotation

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An indirect comparison of two unlike things using like or as. Ex: Burns' 'Oh my love is like a red red rose / That's newly sprung in June.'

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Simile

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A direct comparison of two unlike things (without using comparative words like 'like' or 'as'). Ex: Shakespeare's 'All the world's a stage.'

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Metaphor

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A type of poetic meter consisting of five iambs per line.

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Iambic pentameter

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When characters or events in a work is a symbol of something else in history or politics.

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Alegory

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A commonly used phrase or expression that presents a figurative, non-literal meaning attached to the phrase.

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Idiom

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A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a work.

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Extended Metaphor

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A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated.

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Metonymy

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A harsh or disagreeable sound

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Cacophony

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The purpose of using __ is to bring about peaceful and pleasant feelings in a piece of literary work.

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Euphony

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A poem that tells a story or presents a narrative (can be simple or complex, long or short).

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Narrative Poetry

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Words beginning with the same vowels or consonants

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Alliteration

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Similar vowel sounds

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Assonance

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Consonants in the stressed syllables agree

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Consonance