Poetic Devices for 9th graders

________- poetry that has no fixed meter or pattern and that depends on natural speech rhythm.

Free verse

________- writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme.

Verse

________- a statement that seems untrue but may be true.

Paradox

________- the specific choice of words for a poet /writer, often to create a certain tone or writing style.

Diction

________- the use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning.

Onomatopoeia

________- a generally regular pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables in poetry.

Meter

________- the emotion or association that a word or phrase may arouse; the implied meaning of a word.

Connotation

________- any object, person, place, or action that has meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself, such as quality, an attitude, a belief, or a value.

Symbol

________- an obvious exaggeration not meant to be taken literally; exaggeration for effect.

Hyperbole

________- a reference in one work of literature to a person, place, or event in another work of literature or in history, art or music.

Allusion

________- a figure of speech in which an animal, an object, a natural force, or an idea is given personality, or described as if it were human.

Personification

________- the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern.

Rhythm

________- a Japanese poem style that describes a single image in three lines and 17 syllables (5, 7, 5)

Haiku

________- a comparison between two dissimilar things through the use of a specific word of comparison such as like, as, that, or resembles.

Simile

________- figure of speech in which opposite ideas are combined e.g.

Oxymoron

________- a direct comparison between two unlike things with the intent of giving added meaning to one of them.

Metaphor

________- how a speaker /persona presents themself within a text.

Voice

________- two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme.

Couplet

________- the literal or "dictionary "meaning of a word.

Denotation

________- the attitude that a writer takes towards his or her subject, characters, and readers.

Tone

________- the narrating voice in a poem; often referred to as the "persona "when "I / "first- person point- of- view is used.

Speaker

________- language that appeals to any combination of senses (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch)

Imagery

________- a difference or inconsistency between what is stated and what is really meant (verbal), or between what is expected to happen and what actually does happen (situational), or when the audience knows something the characters do not (dramatic)

Irony

________ verse- verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.

Blank

________- the repetition of similar sounds, usually consonants or consonant clusters, in a group of words.

Alliteration

________- a group of lines forming a unit in a poem.

Stanza

________- a repetition of sound in two or more words or phrases that usually appear close to each other in a poem.

Rhyme

________- a term applied to a specific kind of figurative language, such as metaphor, simile, or personification.

Figure of speech

________- a fourteen- line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter.

Sonnet

________ is the pattern that the rhymes at the end of the lines create for a poem.

Rhyme scheme

a humorous five-line poem ( “There once was a man from Nantucket…”)

Limerick

a group of lines forming a unit in a poem

**Stanza**

a three-line stanza

Tercet

A four line stanza

quatrain

a five-line stanza.

**Cinquain**

a six-line stanza

**Sestet**

a poets message

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