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Frost & Williams: Poetic Devices and Terms

Frost & Williams: Poetic Devices and Terms

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English

5th Grade

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Georgeanne Cheng

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1.

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Enjambment

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Refers to when one line of a poem flows into another without stopping. Example: glazed with rain water.

2.

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Personification

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Literary device that gives human characteristics, thoughts or feelings to an object, animal or concept. Example: He gives his harness bells a shake to ask if there is some mistake.

3.

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Alliteration

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The repetition of sounds, either consonant or vowel sounds, at the beginning of consecutive (side by side) or nearby words. Example: To watch his woods fill up with snow. The 'w' sound is repeated in 'watch' and 'woods'.

4.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

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Assonance

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Refers to the repetition of vowel sounds in consecutive and nearby words. The sound may appear in the beginning, middle or end of words, and it creates internal rhyme (rhymes within lines) in the poem. Example: so much depends upon. The short 'u' in 'much' is matched with the short 'u' in 'upon' in the next line.

5.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

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Juxtaposition

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Occurs when a writer positions two ideas, concepts or images next to each other for dramatic effect. Example: William Carlos Williams places the two distinct images of a red wheelbarrow and white chickens next to each other in his poem 'The Red Wheelbarrow.'

6.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

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Stanzas

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Group of lines that forms the basic organization of the poem. In traditional Latin and Greek poetry, stanzas contained four lines. Modern poetry may contain any number of lines.

7.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

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Iamb

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An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Example: above, invite, myself.

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