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