Poetic Devices

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Alliteration

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Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words

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Assonance

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Repetion of vowel sounds within words.

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Consonance

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Repetion of consonant sounds within and at the end of words

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Onomatopoeia

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Words that imitate sounds

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Meter

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Repetion of a regular rhythic unit in a line of poetry

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Refrain

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Recurrence of words,phrases or lines. Also known as repetion

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Rhythm

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Flow of sound created by the arrangements of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

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Caesura

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A pause in a line of poetry

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Rhyme

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Similarities of sound between words

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Rhyme Scheme

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Pattern of the end line

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End Rhyme

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Rhyme that comes at the end

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Internal rhyme

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Rhyme that occurs within a single line of poetry

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Slant rhyme

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Words that should sound the same but they dont
EX:Prove & Love

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Conventional forms

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Poetry that follow certain rules

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Free Verse

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Poetry that doesnt have regular patterns

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Blank Verse

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Poem that doesnt have words that dont rhyme Iambic pentameter

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Lyric

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Short poem a single speaker expresses thoughts and feelings emotionally

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Quatrain

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4 line stanza

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Epic

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Long story about a hero

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Narrative

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Poe that tells a story using elements of character, setting and plot to develop a theme

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Ballad

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Poem that is meant to be sung

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Protest

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Poem written to persuade people to support certain political cause

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Sonnet

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14 line lyris poem

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Octave

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First 8 lines of a sonnet

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Sestet

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Last 6 lines of a sonnet

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Ode

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Lyric poem written to someone in serious tone

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Elegy

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Poem about morning or death

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Psalm

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Sacred or religios song or poem

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Dramatic

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Poem that creates character through dialogue or monologue

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Form

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Physical arrangement of words in poem

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Structures

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Arrangment of words and lines to produce a desire effect

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Stanza

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Group of lines to form a unit looks like paragraph

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Verse

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One line in a poem

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Couplet

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2 line group of poetry

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Foot

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Rhythmic unit in poetry

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Parallelism

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When speaker expresses ideas of equal worth w/ same grammatical form

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Imagery

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Descripted words to give the reader a sensory experinces

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Speaker

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Voice that talks to the reader

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Persona

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Fictional character involved to play the role of the speaker

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Metaphor

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Figure of speech that compares 2 things that have something in common

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Simile

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Comparison using like or as

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Enjambent

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One sentence that makes up multiple lines in a poem

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Inversion

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Changing natural order of a sentence

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Personification

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Giving the traits of humans to non-human things

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Allusion

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reference to a commonly known idea, story

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Connotation

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Emotions or feelings a word can arouse in a reader

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Apostrophe

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Poetic device where a poet talks to a absent person