Common Poetic Devices Cheat Sheet, Study notes of Poetry

Download Common Poetic Devices Cheat Sheet and more Study notes Poetry in PDF only on Docsity! Cheat Sheet of 20 Common Poetic Devices Figurative writing or speech not meant to be interpreted literally but used to create Language: vivid expressions Imagery: a word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses Simile: a figure of speech in which “like” or “as” is used to make a comparison of two basically unlike ideas Metaphor: a figure of speech which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else Extended Metaphor: differs from a regular metaphor in that several comparisons are made and the metaphor sustains the comparison for several lines of the entire poem Personification: a type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics Hyperbole: an exaggeration Alliteration: the repetition of initial consonant sounds Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants Consonance: the repetition in two or more words of final consonants Onomatopoeia: the use of words that imitate sounds Dialect: form of language spoken by people in a particular region or group Allusion: a reference to a well-known person, place, event, and literary work Symbolism: literary device where something stands for or represents something else Repetition: the use, more than once, of any element of language – a sound, a word, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence Meter: the rhythmical pattern of a poem that is determined by the number and types of stresses, or beats, in each line Rhyme: the repetition of sounds at the end of words Internal Rhyme: occurs when the rhyming words appear in the same line Rhyme Scheme: the regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem that is indicated by using different letters of the alphabet for each new rhyme Stanza: is a formal division of lines in a poem, considered a unit. Stanzas are sometimes named according to the number of lines found in them: couplet-2, tercet-3; quatrain-4; cinquain-5 etc.)