1. Poetic Device Review PPT
Rapert/AP Lit.

2. a peck of pickled peppers!
Peter Piper picked
a peck of pickled peppers!
Alliteration:
Repetition of the same sound at the beginning of two or more stressed syllables.

3. Allusion
A reference to something supposed to be known, but not explicitly mentioned.
Little Lamb, I'll tell thee: He is called by thy name, For he calls himself a Lamb. He is meek & he is mild; He became a little child.

4. Antithesis: Juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas (Often, although not always, in parallel structure).
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness

5. Address of something not human or some person not present.
APOSTROPHE
Tyger, tyger burning bright…
Address of something not human or some
person not present.

6. On thy cold, gray stones, O Sea!
Break, Break, Break,
On thy cold, gray stones, O Sea!
Assonance:
Repetition of similar vowel sounds, preceded and followed by different consonants, in the stressed syllables of adjacent words.

7. Ellipsis: Omission of a word or short phrase easily understood in context. You curled the papers from your hair,               Or clasped the yellow soles of feet             In the palms of both soiled hands The possessive “your” is left out in the second and third lines, but it can be assumed that the woman addressed by the speaker is clasping the soles of her own feet with her own hands.

8. HYPERBOLE: Exaggeration for poetic effect
Robert Burns writes to one of many women in his life:
So fair thou art, my bonnie lass, So deep in love am I: And I will love thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry.
Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi' the sun:
HYPERBOLE: Exaggeration for poetic effect

9. Metonymy:reference to Something or Someone by Naming One of Its Attributes.
The pen is mightier than the sword

10. Parallelism: similarity of structure in a pair or series of related words, phrases, or clauses.

11. Metaphor: An implied rather than direct comparison.
The wind sweeps the clouds.

12. OXYMORON: A two word paradox
Jumbo Shrimp

13. PARADOX:
a statement that seems to be
self-contradictory
but which is
actually true
Shame is Pride’s Cloak!
William Blake’s “Proverbs of Hell”

14. SIMILE:
Items from different classes are explicitly
compared by a connective such
as like, as, or than, or by a verb
such as appears or seems.
Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore
... Poe

15. Giving one’s hand in marriage SYNEDOCHE:
A figure of speech in which a part is used for
the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for
a part (as the law for police officer)
Giving one’s hand
in marriage