Poetic Devices Definitions Poetry Definitions Poetry Identification Identifying Poetic Devices
100
What is Repetition?
Repeated words, phrases, lines, or stanzas
100
What is a stanza?
Similar to a paragraph in poetic form
100
What is caesura?
Then, the man suddenly stopped-
he sank to his knees in desperation.
100
What is alliteration?
The whispering willows waved in the wind
200
What is connotation?
The feeling attached to a word
200
What is a line?
Similar to a sentence in poetic form
200
What is repetition?
The water ran down, down to the river.
200
What is assonance?
The time is ripe for another try!
300
What is diction?
Selection of words in a literary work
300
What is enjambment?
The continuation of a phrase onto the next line of poetry
300
What is assonance?
The room was doomed to soothe lost souls.
300
What is Consonance
At the same time, the I roamed the home.
400
What is alliteration?
Repeated consonant sounds at the start of a word?
400
What is assonance?
Repeated vowel sounds in the middle of a word?
400
What is repetition?
Hope beyond Hope, she hoped for a miracle
400
What is internal rhyme?
I walked into the room hoping to see the groom
500
What is consonance?
Repeated consonant sounds in the middle of a word?
500
What is caesura?
A strong pause at the end of a line
500
What is alliteration?
Rachel rang her really good relative.
500
What is enjambment?
Joyce was beautiful. She had the hair of
an angel that God sent from above.

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