Poetry devices Flashcards
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What is a metaphor?
A figure of speech that describes something by saying it’s something else without using as or like.
I was a brave lion
What is a simile?
A phrase that uses comparison to describe and you always use as or like.
The ball was as hard as a rock
What is personification?
A poetic literary device in which non-human things are given human traits.
The trees waved me goodbye
What is Zoomorphism?
It means to attribute animal forms or animal characteristics to other animals
The ocean roared
What is imagery?
Elements of a poem that invoke any of the five senses to create a set of mental images
The smell of fish wafted in the air.
What is repetition?
It is when you purposefully repeat a phrase or word
Over and over and over again
What is plosive alliteration?
The sounds that are generally associated with the letters p, t, k, b, d, g
Pat, kid, bag
What is sibilance?
Sibilance is the repetition of letter sounds that have a hushing or hissing quality.
Sarah’s silly sister swallowed her sweet.
What is a stanza?
A stanza is a paragraph in poetry
What is a tercet?
A poetic unit of three lines, rhymed or unrhymed (stanza with 3 lines only)
What is assonance?
The repetition of vowel sounds without repeating
Between trees
What is caesura?
A break in the flow of sound usually in the middle of a line of verse
Are you nobody, too?
What is enjambment?
Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break
What is onomatopoeia?
The naming of a thing or action by imitation of natural sounds
Crash, boom
What is rhyme?
Rhyme is the repetition of syllables, typically at the end of a verse line
Sweet meat, goat boat
What is a rhyming couplet?
A Rhyming Couplet are two lines of the same length that rhyme and complete one thought
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
What is pathetic fallacy?
Pathetic fallacy is giving human feelings to something non-human
Wandered lonely as a cloud (associated with the weather)
What are consonants?
Consonants is the repetition of consonant sounds.
Clitter clatter, pitter patter
