Poetic Terms 5-9

Poetic Terms
5-9

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Overview of Terms

1) Asyndeton
2) Polysyndeton
3) Syndeton
4) Chiasmus
5) Consonance

Asyndeton

Asyndeton: the conjunctions are missing and replaced by commas

Examples:
a. "We saw no houses, no smoke, no footprints, no boats, no people.”
b. "“Veni, Vidi, Vici” or “I came, I saw, I conquered.”
c. “…and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the Earth.”

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of ASYNDETON?

• I came, and I saw, and I ate.

• I came, I saw, I conquered.
• I came, I saw, and I lost.

• I ran to watch my baby crawl, now I'm willing to crawl to watch her run.

Polysyndeton

​polysyndeton: the repetitive occurrence of conjunctions 

Example:
a. They like ham and cheese, and mayonnaise and bread."
b. Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers.
c. the people I meet in small towns and big cities and diners and office parks, they don’t expect government to solve all of their problems.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of POLYSYNDETON?

• I came, and I saw, and I ate.

• I came, I saw, I conquered.
• I came, I saw, and I lost.

• I ran to watch my baby crawl, now I'm willing to crawl to watch her run.

Syndeton

Syndeton: sentence construction where two or more phraases are joined together with coordingaing conjunctions.

Example:
a. "They like ham and eggs."
b. We packed sandwiches and apples.
c. "I've met Kanye, President Obama, and did chin-ups with DMX."

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of SYNDETON?

• I came, and I saw, and I ate.

• I came, I saw, I conquered.
• I came, I saw, and I lost.

• I ran to watch my baby crawl, now I'm willing to crawl to watch her run.

Chiasmus

chiasmus:a two-part sentence or phrase, where the second part is a reversal of the first

Example:
a."We had everything before us, we had nothing before us."
b. "When the going get tough, the tough get going."
c. “I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of CHIASMUS?

• I came, and I saw, and I ate.

• I came, I saw, I conquered.
• I came, I saw, and I lost.

• I ran to watch my baby crawl, now I'm willing to crawl to watch her run.

Categorize

Options (4)

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

Reduce and Reuse, and Recycle

Reduce before you are reduced.

Organize these options into the right categories

Asyndeton

Polysyndeton

Syndeton

Chiasmus

Consonance

Consonance: repetition of the same consonant sound within a group of words

Examples:
a. "pitter-patter"
b. “Jeffery and Tiffany have tough phones”.
c. "Dead in the middle of little Italy, little did we know we riddled two middlemen who didn't do diddly."

Drag and Drop

Find the examples of CONSONANCE​

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Fuddy duddy

Heorot trembled, wonderfully built to withstand th

“I beat the daring Roman, I beat the daring Turk

crying time

the kind knight jogs by