Poetic Devices
Alliteration: repetition of initial consonant sounds
Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds
Imagery: language that causes people to imagine pictures in their mind
Metaphor: a comparison between two things without the use of "like" or "as"
Meter: the basic recurrent rhythmical pattern of note values, accents, and beats per measure in music or poetry
Onomatopoeia: the use of words that imitate natural sounds
Point of view (1st, 2nd, 3rd): the angle of considering things, which shows us the opinion, or feelings of the individuals involved in a situation
1st: involves the use of either of the two pronouns “I” and “we”
2nd: employs the pronoun “you”
3rd: uses pronouns like “he”, “she”, “it”, “they” or a name
Repetition: something that is said or done again
Simile: a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by "like" or "as"
Stanza: a group of lines in a poem...
2 lines-couplet
3 lines-tercet
4 lines-quatrain
5 lines-quintet
6 lines-sestet
7 lines-septet
8 lines-octave
Consonance: repetition of consonant sounds
Personification: the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form
Rhythm: movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like
Allegory: a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one
Allusion: an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference
Ambiguity: uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language
Analogy: a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification
Apostrophe (speaking to reader/or object): the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically
ex: "Oh, [name]!"
Synesthesia: the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body
Tone: Tone, in written composition, is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience and is generally conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject
Mood: (atmosphere) a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions
Caesura (strong pause in a line): a break between words within a metrical foot
Cliche: a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought
Hyperbole: exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
Metonymy: thing/person represented by thing associated with it
Irony: the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Paradox: a statement or proposition that, despite sound, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory
Symbolism: use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense
Synecdoche: a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part
Alliteration: repetition of initial consonant sounds
Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds
Imagery: language that causes people to imagine pictures in their mind
Metaphor: a comparison between two things without the use of "like" or "as"
Meter: the basic recurrent rhythmical pattern of note values, accents, and beats per measure in music or poetry
Onomatopoeia: the use of words that imitate natural sounds
Point of view (1st, 2nd, 3rd): the angle of considering things, which shows us the opinion, or feelings of the individuals involved in a situation
1st: involves the use of either of the two pronouns “I” and “we”
2nd: employs the pronoun “you”
3rd: uses pronouns like “he”, “she”, “it”, “they” or a name
Repetition: something that is said or done again
Simile: a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by "like" or "as"
Stanza: a group of lines in a poem...
2 lines-couplet
3 lines-tercet
4 lines-quatrain
5 lines-quintet
6 lines-sestet
7 lines-septet
8 lines-octave
Consonance: repetition of consonant sounds
Personification: the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form
Rhythm: movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like
Allegory: a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one
Allusion: an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference
Ambiguity: uncertainty or inexactness of meaning in language
Analogy: a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification
Apostrophe (speaking to reader/or object): the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically
ex: "Oh, [name]!"
Synesthesia: the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body
Tone: Tone, in written composition, is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience and is generally conveyed through the choice of words or the viewpoint of a writer on a particular subject
Mood: (atmosphere) a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions
Caesura (strong pause in a line): a break between words within a metrical foot
Cliche: a phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought
Hyperbole: exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
Metonymy: thing/person represented by thing associated with it
Irony: the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
Oxymoron: a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction
Paradox: a statement or proposition that, despite sound, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory
Symbolism: use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense
Synecdoche: a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part
Types of Poetry:
Verse: poetry that possesses more formal qualities
Free verse: poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
Blank Verse: A blank verse is a poem with no rhyme but does have iambic pentameter.
Ballad: form of verse, often a narrative set to music.
Heroic Couplet: a traditional form for English poetry, commonly used in epic and narrative poetry; it refers to poems constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of lines in iambic pentameter.
Dramatic Monologue: also known as a persona poem, is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character.
Epic: a long, serious,poetic narrative about a significant event, often featuring a hero.
Sonnet: A 14-line poem with a variable rhyme scheme using iambic pentameter
*Tip: the last two lines usually convey the meaning or subject of the poem
Petrarchan Sonnet: this divides the 14 lines into two sections: an 8-line stanza (octave) rhyming ABBAABBA, and a 6-line stanza (sestet) rhyming CDCDCD or CDEEDE
Villanelle: A nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain.
Iambic Pentameter: A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.
Dactylic Hexameter: A form of meter in poetry or a rhythmic scheme. It is traditionally associated with the quantitative meter of classical epic poetry in both Greek and Latin, and was consequently considered to be the Grand Style of classical poetry.
Trochaic Tetrameter: It refers to a line of four trochaic feet. The word "tetrameter" simply means that the poem has four trochees.
Meter: rhythm established by a poem, and it is usually dependent not only on the number of syllables in a line but also on the way those syllables are accented.
Monometer: a line of verse of one measure or foot.
Dimeter: a line of verse consisting of two metrical feet.
Trimeter: is a meter of three metrical feet per line.
Tetrameter: a verse of four measures.
Pentameter: a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet.
Hexameter: a line of verse consisting of six metrical feet.