Poetic Devices Review

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

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

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

A seemingly contradictory statement that holds true with further explanation

the central idea or take away from a poem

A theme statement should be:

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

poetry free of regular rhyme or rhythm patterns

using words to create mental pictures

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

repeating the initial sounds in neighbouring words

words whose sounds suggest their meaning

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

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

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

the poet's attitude about the subject of the poem

_______ are to poetry as paragraphs are to prose

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

giving inanimate objects human or living characteristics

The first person, "I," in a poem

A longer poem that tells a story

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

EX: "snap, crackle, pop!"

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