Poetic Devices Review

the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines of a poem or verse.

A seemingly contradictory statement that holds true with further explanation

A comparison between two unlike things using "like" or "as"

Devices? "His opponent was looking for his Achilles’ heel to beat him."

EX:  She was a protective lioness when it came to her children.

Devices? "My heart aches, & a drowsy numbness pains/My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk"

giving inanimate objects human or living characteristics

When two or more words’ endings share the same consonant or vowel sound, but not both.

Devices? "And, as the bird, it left no trace/In the heaven of your face."

A theme statement should be:

repeating the initial sounds in neighbouring words

The 2nd "E" in PEE means you need to:

words whose sounds suggest their meaning

A longer poem that tells a story

the poet's attitude about the subject of the poem

EX: The sun smiled down on the children playing at recess.

A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter that follows a one of several rhyme schemes

Devices? "To climb Mount Everest in winter was a Herculean task."

A comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as'

_______ are to poetry as paragraphs are to prose

poetry free of regular rhyme or rhythm patterns

"Happy," "bright," and "energetic" are all __________ of the colour yellow.

using words to create mental pictures

The first person, "I," in a poem

an emotional, often rhyming poem that may have plot elements, but is more episodic

the central idea or take away from a poem

Which if the following show a correct tense and pronoun for a literary analysis?

the feeling the reader gets from a poem, often evoked through word choice and the setting

EX:  Her eyes were as cold as the eyes of a lioness.

EX: "snap, crackle, pop!"