Literary Devices - Quiz #2 Terms

verbal irony

a writer says one thing, but means something different

situational irony

occurs when something happens that is entirely different from what would be expected

dramatic irony

when the audience of a story knows something important that a character in the story does not know

satire

a form of writing in which humor is used to point out flaws in society

blank verse

a metrical verse that does NOT use a rhyme scheme/rhyme

metrical verse

a type of verse that both rhymes and has meter

free verse

a type of verse that does not rhyme nor has any meter

caesura

the use of punctuation that causes a pause within a line or lines of poetry when read aloud

end stop

the use of punctuation that causes a stop or break in reading at the end of each line of poetry when read aloud

enjambment

the lack of punctuation that would cause stops at the end of lines of poetry

rhyme scheme

the ordered pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines of a poem and may be noted as ABAB, ABCB, etc.

stanza

a division of a poem created by arranging lines into a unit; a poem paragraph

verse

a specific style or form of poetry

repetition

the repeated use of the same word or word pattern done for a desired effect

paradox

a statement or proposition that contradicts itself