Poetry
Poetic Devices: ........................................................................................................................................ 2
Poetry: ..................................................................................................................................................... 4
Sonnet 130 .......................................................................................................................................... 4
Eating Poetry ....................................................................................................................................... 7
We wear mask................................................................................................................................... 10
The English are so nice ...................................................................................................................... 14
African Poem ..................................................................................................................................... 16
The man ............................................................................................................................................ 19
The hug ............................................................................................................................................. 21
Home ................................................................................................................................................. 23
From the air ...................................................................................................................................... 25
The ride ............................................................................................................................................. 28
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,Poetic Devices:
Theme: The main idea or meaning of a text. Often, this is an insight about human life in literary
work.
Imagery: Words and phrases that appeal to the five senses.
Sound: The poet uses rhyme, rhythm, and or repetition to help the listener to hear the poem.
Rhythm: The beat of the poem.
Lines: Phrases or words in a stanza.
Form: What a poem looks like.
Figurative language: language employing one or more figures of speech.
Simile: Comparison using like and as.
Metaphor: Comparison not using like or as.
Personification: A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feeling, thoughts, or
attitudes.
Hyperbole: Extreme exaggeration.
Rhyme scheme / Rhyme: The pattern in which rhyme sounds occur in a stanza.
Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
Onomatopoeia: A word that represents a sound.
Stanza: The division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains.
Repetition: The use of the same term several times.
Adverbs: An adverb is a part of speech that informs about an action – how, where, when, in which
manner, or to what an extent it has been performed.
Adjective: An adjective is a part of speech that describes and modifies a noun, to make a writing or
conversation more specific, relevant, and coherent.
Colloquial languages: Colloquialism is the use of informal words or phrases in writing or speech.
Colloquialisms can include aphorisms, idioms, profanity, or other words.
Ambiguity: A word, statement, or situation with two or more possible meanings is said to be
ambiguous.
Idioms: An idiom is a figure of speech that means something different than a literal translation of the
words would lead one to believe.
Sibilance: Sibilance is a figure of speech in which a hissing sound is created within a group of words
through the repetition of "s" sounds.
Juxtaposition: Refers to a stark contrast between two people or things.
Assonance: Assonance, or “vowel rhyme,” is the repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or
poetry.
Iambic pentameter: In a line of poetry, an ‘iamb’ is a foot or beat consisting of an unstressed syllable
followed by a stressed syllable.
Anthropomorphism: A form of personification in which human qualities are attributed to anything
inhuman, usually a god, animal, object, or concept.
Oxymoron: A self-contradicting word or group of words.
Caesura: Refers to a break or pause in the middle of a line of verse.
Enjambement: The continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break.
Irony: Implies a distance between what is said and what is meant.
Stream of consciousness: Stream of consciousness, narrative technique in nondramatic fiction
intended to render the flow of myriad impressions—visual, auditory, physical, associative, and
subliminal—that impinge on the consciousness of an individual and form part of his awareness along
with the trend of his rational thoughts.
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, Pathetic fallacy: The phrase pathetic fallacy is a literary term for the attribution of human emotion
and conduct to things found.
Puns: A pun is a play on words, centring on a word with more than one meaning or words that sound
alike.
Acrostic: An acrostic poem is a poem where certain letters in each line spell out a word or phrase.
Blank verse: Blank verse is a literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic
pentameter.
Free verse: Free verse is a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations
of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms.
Conceit: Is an often unconventional, logically complex, or surprising metaphor whose delights are
more intellectual than sensual.
Apostrophe: An address to a dead or absent person, or personification as if he or she were present.
End rhymes: A rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verses.
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Poetic Devices: ........................................................................................................................................ 2
Poetry: ..................................................................................................................................................... 4
Sonnet 130 .......................................................................................................................................... 4
Eating Poetry ....................................................................................................................................... 7
We wear mask................................................................................................................................... 10
The English are so nice ...................................................................................................................... 14
African Poem ..................................................................................................................................... 16
The man ............................................................................................................................................ 19
The hug ............................................................................................................................................. 21
Home ................................................................................................................................................. 23
From the air ...................................................................................................................................... 25
The ride ............................................................................................................................................. 28
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,Poetic Devices:
Theme: The main idea or meaning of a text. Often, this is an insight about human life in literary
work.
Imagery: Words and phrases that appeal to the five senses.
Sound: The poet uses rhyme, rhythm, and or repetition to help the listener to hear the poem.
Rhythm: The beat of the poem.
Lines: Phrases or words in a stanza.
Form: What a poem looks like.
Figurative language: language employing one or more figures of speech.
Simile: Comparison using like and as.
Metaphor: Comparison not using like or as.
Personification: A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feeling, thoughts, or
attitudes.
Hyperbole: Extreme exaggeration.
Rhyme scheme / Rhyme: The pattern in which rhyme sounds occur in a stanza.
Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
Onomatopoeia: A word that represents a sound.
Stanza: The division in a poem named for the number of lines it contains.
Repetition: The use of the same term several times.
Adverbs: An adverb is a part of speech that informs about an action – how, where, when, in which
manner, or to what an extent it has been performed.
Adjective: An adjective is a part of speech that describes and modifies a noun, to make a writing or
conversation more specific, relevant, and coherent.
Colloquial languages: Colloquialism is the use of informal words or phrases in writing or speech.
Colloquialisms can include aphorisms, idioms, profanity, or other words.
Ambiguity: A word, statement, or situation with two or more possible meanings is said to be
ambiguous.
Idioms: An idiom is a figure of speech that means something different than a literal translation of the
words would lead one to believe.
Sibilance: Sibilance is a figure of speech in which a hissing sound is created within a group of words
through the repetition of "s" sounds.
Juxtaposition: Refers to a stark contrast between two people or things.
Assonance: Assonance, or “vowel rhyme,” is the repetition of vowel sounds across a line of text or
poetry.
Iambic pentameter: In a line of poetry, an ‘iamb’ is a foot or beat consisting of an unstressed syllable
followed by a stressed syllable.
Anthropomorphism: A form of personification in which human qualities are attributed to anything
inhuman, usually a god, animal, object, or concept.
Oxymoron: A self-contradicting word or group of words.
Caesura: Refers to a break or pause in the middle of a line of verse.
Enjambement: The continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break.
Irony: Implies a distance between what is said and what is meant.
Stream of consciousness: Stream of consciousness, narrative technique in nondramatic fiction
intended to render the flow of myriad impressions—visual, auditory, physical, associative, and
subliminal—that impinge on the consciousness of an individual and form part of his awareness along
with the trend of his rational thoughts.
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, Pathetic fallacy: The phrase pathetic fallacy is a literary term for the attribution of human emotion
and conduct to things found.
Puns: A pun is a play on words, centring on a word with more than one meaning or words that sound
alike.
Acrostic: An acrostic poem is a poem where certain letters in each line spell out a word or phrase.
Blank verse: Blank verse is a literary device defined as un-rhyming verse written in iambic
pentameter.
Free verse: Free verse is a literary device that can be defined as poetry that is free from limitations
of regular meter or rhythm and does not rhyme with fixed forms.
Conceit: Is an often unconventional, logically complex, or surprising metaphor whose delights are
more intellectual than sensual.
Apostrophe: An address to a dead or absent person, or personification as if he or she were present.
End rhymes: A rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verses.
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