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Poetic Devices

Sound Devices Rhyme

Rhyme: Single Rhyme Love, dove

Double Rhyme Napping tapping

Triple Rhyme Mournfully, scornfully

Imperfect Rhyme Two words that look alike, but don’t sound alike: Love, jove

Internal Rhyme Occurs inside a line: to beat the heat

Masculine Rhyme When the final syllables rhyme: Intent, content

Feminine Rhyme When more than one syllable rhymes, but with no emphasis on the final syllable Weather, heather

Other sound devices Assonance Onomatopoeia alliteration

Assonance A resemblance of vowel sounds in words or syllables O’ harp and altar of the fury fused

Onomatopoeia When a word sounds like its meaning: Drip, whisper, hiss, hoot, murmur, crunch, crackle

Alliteration Words beginning with same consonant sound In a summer season when soft was the son

Picture Devices: Imagery Metaphor Simile Personification Allusion Hyperbole Understatement Irony Antithesis Synecdoche Metonymy

Metaphor Two unlike things directly compared The river is a snake which coils on itself

Simile Two unlike things compared using “like” or “as” The man paced like a hungry lion

Personification Giving human qualities to things The trees danced in the breeze

Allusion Referring metaphorically to persons, places or things from literature, history, religion or mythology With Herculean strength

Hyperbole Saying more than is true He played guitar until he wore his fingers to the bone

Understatement Saying less than is true Losing his job meant he could sleep late

You may be smoking a bit too much

Irony Saying the opposite of what is true, or when the intended meaning is different from the actual meaning War is kind

IRONY!

Antithesis Contrasts for effect for emphasis Deserts are dry, oceans are wet

Synecdoche Using parts for the whole “all hands on deck”

Metonymy Substituting one word for another The scales of justice are fair

Form and Structure Stanza Forms

Rhyme scheme: indicated by a capital letters indicating rhyming words: AABB, ABAB, ABCB

Names for stanzas: Couplet: two rhyming lines Tercet: three Quatrain: 4 Quintet: 5 Sestet: 6 (often 3 sets of couplets) Octave: 8

Sonnet: 14 line stanza Shakespearean: 3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet ABAB CDCD, EFEF GG

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