Poetic Device Vocab Review

Refers to a contrast between expectation or appearance and reality

• Repetition

• Extended Metaphor

• Irony

• Simile

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

A comparison between two essentially unlike things that is carried throughout a paragraph, a stanza, or an entire selection

• Metaphor

• Extended Metaphor

• Octave

• Rhythm

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity

• Theme

• Imagery

• Rhythm

• Repetition

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words; impart a musical quality to a text

• Rhyme Scheme

• Sestet

• Alliteration

• Stanza

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.RL.2.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Refers to the pattern or flow of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables

• Rhythm

• Rhyme Scheme

• Petrarchan Sonnet

• Metaphor

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

A group of lines that form a unit of a poem

• Sonnet

• Stanza

• Simile

• Sestet

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

Creative decisions in writing regarding word choice, structure, and style

• Author's Choice

• Imagery

• Theme

• Irony

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Pattern of end rhyme; charted by assigning a letter to each line - lines that rhyme are given the same letter

• Rhyme Scheme

• Rhythm

• Repetition

• Petrarchan Sonnet

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Descriptive words and phrases used to re-create sensory experiences

• Irony

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Imagery

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

CCSS.L.6.5

CCSS.L.7.5

CCSS.L.8.5

A figure of speech that compares two things without the use of like or as

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Octave

• Author's Choice

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D