Vocabulary - Poetic Devices - 12/6/24

A word for a sound that reproduces the sound.

• alliteration

• onomatopoeia

• ominous

• rhyme

A repetition of similar sounds in two or more words.

• rhyme

• mood

• onomatopoeia

• idiom

Repetition of the same beginning sound in two or more words.

• stanza

• exact rhyme

• relevancy

• alliteration

A poetic paragraph. There are usually double spaces between these.

• approximate rhyme

• line

• shutter

• stanza

These make up the stanzas in the poem. They are not necessarily sentences.

• ominous

• phrases

• syllables

• lines

The same middle AND end sounds in two or more words.

• exact rhyme

• melancholy

• ebony

• approximate rhyme

Same middle OR end sounds in two or more words.

• alliteration

• peering

• approximate rhyme

• exact rhyme

The feeling or atmosphere that a writer is trying to create in the reader's mind (e.g.: calm, anxiety, joy, anger, fear, etc.).

• bleak

• mood

• ghastly

• irony

A narrator that cannot be trusted to tell the story accurately. These narrators may mislead readers, either on purpose or unintentionally.

• omniscient narrator

• unreliable narrator

• limited narrator

• commentator

Not hopeful or encouraging; depressing; dark & barren.

• bleak

• optimistic

• idyllic

• complacent