Poetry Devices - Ms. Chabot - The Meadows School 2014-15 Year

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Alliteration

Back 1

Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other

Hint 1

Sally sells seashells south of the sea.

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Assonance

Back 2

Repeated vowel sounds in words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines; should be in sounds that are accented or stressed.

Hint 2

Adam ate apples;

Anson ate avocados;

But all the while,

Audrey acquired artichokes.

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Consonance

Back 3

Repeated consonant sounds at the ending of words placed near each other.

Hint 3

The superb suburb has a club.

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Cacophony

Back 4

Series of harsh, unpleasant sounds that help convey disorder; often combined with the effect of the meaning and difficulty of pronounciation

Hint 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpjJNavdrmc

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Euphony

Back 5

A series of musically pleasant sounds, conveying a sense of harmony and beauty to the language.

Hint 5

"...To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core..."

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Repetition

Back 6

Purposeful reuse of words and phrases for an effect

Hint 6

"...A horse is a horse, of course, of course,
And no one can talk to a horse of course..."

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Rhythm

Back 7

Organization of speech into a regular pattern of accented syllables separated by unaccented syllables; meter

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Ambiguity

Back 8

Word or phrase that can mean more than one thing, even it its context

Hint 8

Shock: to jolt (as in with electricity) or to amaze (as in a daring performance)?

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Apostrophe

Back 9

Speaking directly to a real or imagined listener or inanimate object

Hint 9

“Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.”

Every time you say that, you're speaking TO A STAR.

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Connotation

Back 10

Feelings implied along with the dictionary definition of a word

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Denotation

Back 11

The dictionary definition of a word.

Hint 11

Do I even have to?

Free Verse: Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.

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Euphemism

Back 12

An understatement used to lessen the effect of a statement; substitution for something that might be offensive or hurtful.

Hint 12

"So, did you do the Mattress dance yesterday?"

"Sorry?"

"You know... do the nasty?"

"Huh?"

"Come on... did you ride the skin bus into tuna town...?"

"Ohhhhhhhhhh... gotcha. And no."

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Oxymoron

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A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other.

Hint 13

"GET YOUR GENUINE FAKE WATCHES HERE!"

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Paradox

Back 14

A statement in which a seeming contradiction may reveal an unexpected truth

Hint 14

Fahrenheit 451: Firemen create fire instead of putting them out.

"Didn't firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going?"

"That's rich!"

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Line

Back 15

Important visual distinction from prose; arranged into a series of units that do not necessarily correspond to sentences

Hint 15

You find it funny to assign
Homework all the time
In books thick as a bible
Doing chapter 1-9
Questions 1-24
16-35
Chapter 4's warm up
And 17-39

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Verse

Back 16

One single line of a poem arranged in a metrical pattern

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Stanza

Back 17

A division of a poem created by arranging the lines into a unit

Hint 17

I live in a doorway
between two rooms. I hear
quiet clicks, cups of black
coffee, click, click like facts
budgets, tenure, curriculum,
from careful women in crisp beige
suits, quick beige smiles
that seldom sneak into their eyes.

I peek
in the other room señoras
in faded dresses stir sweet
milk coffee, laughter whirls
with steam from fresh tamales
sh, sh, mucho ruido,
they scold one another,
press their lips, trap smiles
in their dark, Mexican eyes.

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Stanza Forms

Back 18

Names given to describe the number of lines in a divisional unit

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Enjambment

Back 19

The continuation of logical sense - and therefore the grammatical construction - beyond the end of a line in poetry; sometimes done with a title

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Form

Back 20

Arrangement or method used to convey content, such as free verse, ballad, etc.

Hint 20

The way that "Sonrisas" is organized is a type of form.

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Blank Verse

Back 21

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

Hint 21

"Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun..."

Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;

There is no proper rhyme scheme to this at all.

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Free Verse

Back 22

Lines with no prescribed pattern or structure

Hint 22

"The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on."

Do you see a pattern? If you do, you're not thinking straight.

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Fixed Form

Back 23

A poem which follows a set pattern of meter, rhyme scheme, stanza form, etc.

Hint 23

"Whitecaps on the bay:

A broken signboard banging

In the April wind."

Haikus are fixed form.

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Ballad

Back 24

More complex than the lyric; intricate rhyme schemes; marked by a rich, intense, expression of an elevated thought praising a person or object

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Epitaph

Back 25

A brief poem or statement in memory of someone who is deceased, used as or suitable for a tombstone inscription

Hint 25

"Here lies Good Old Fred;

A great big rock fell on his head."

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Lyric

Back 26

Originally designed to be sung; speaker's ardent expression of an emotional element; most frequently used modern form

Hint 26

"Lord, does she even have a clue

One wink and I was through

That first kiss was like glue

Her gravitational pull

Turned my empty into full

Teach me baby, I'm loving school

..Can't get enough!"

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Ode

Back 27

A narrative poem written as a series of quatrains

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Sonnet

Back 28

Fourteen line poem in iambic pentameter with a prescribed rhyme scheme

Hint 28

•Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

•Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

•Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

•And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

•Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

•And often is his gold complexion dimmed,

•And every fair from fair sometime declines,

•By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:

•But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

•Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

•Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

•When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,

•So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

•So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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Shakespearean Sonnet

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Rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg; created by a famous playwright

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Sonnet Sequence

Back 30

Series of sonnets in which there is a discernable unifying theme

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Villanelle

Back 31

A 19-line poem made up of five three-line stanzas followed by a final four-line stanza (quatrain) There are only 2 rhymes per each stanza.

Hint 31

"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night."

What characteristics can you detect from the above lines?

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Imagery

Back 32

The use of vivid language to generate idea and/or evoke mental images

Hint 32

"A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the Milky Way"

The poet paints a wonderful picture of daffodils such that you can almost picture them in the breeze.

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Synesthesia

Back 33

An attempt to fuse different senses by describing one kind of sense impression in words

Hint 33

"It tastes funny."

"You look cool."

"I can hear the bitterness in your voice."

"Hey, girl, you look hot."

"Rough day, huh?"

"Aww...You're sweet."

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Tone

Back 34

The author's feelings toward their subject

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Mood

Back 35

The atmosphere created for the audience

Hint 35

Ever heard of setting the mood? It's not just romantic.

"The river, reflecting the clear blue of the sky, glistened and sparkled as it flowed noiselessly on." (Imagery plays a part in this, too.)