Poetry Devices

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Acrostic
Where the first letter,syllable or word of each line, paragraph or a other recurring feature in the text spells out a word
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Allorgy
Something symbolic, often a story representing larger things.
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Allusion
Referring to something well known Shakespeare makes allusion we may not understand.
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Ambiguity
A word or idea meaning more than one thing to provoke thought.
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Analogy
Comparing something unfamiliar to something familiar.
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Anaphora
The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of lines, creating a rhetorical emphasis on those lines.
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Anthropomorphism
Giving human-like qualities to things that aren't human.
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Assonance
Like alliteration,the sound of assonance come from within the word.
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Asyndeton
The omission of conjunctions between clauses.
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Bathos
A descent in literature in which a poet or writer -striving too hard to be passionate- falls into trivial or stupid imagery. Some authors and poets use it intentionally for a humorous effect.
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Blank verse
Unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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Cacophony
Harsh sounds in order to make a discordant sound.
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Caesura
A break of meaning and rhythm within a line.
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Cliche
Something used in great amount, becomes expected or cheesy.
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Colloquial
Language that is informal.
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Consonance
Consonant sounds at the ends of words.
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Dissonance
A discordant combination of sounds: the clash, spew and sow pang
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Euphemism
Where something distasteful is said in a more acceptable way.
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Fricative
Often occurrences of the letter f in the formation of a sentence.
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Gothic-ism
A style characterized by supernatural, mysterious and an exciting sort of fear and wonder.
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Half-rhyme
A rhyme in which the vowel sounds do not match but the constant final sounds do.
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Hendiadys
A figure of speech which gives two items, where we might normally expect one.
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In Media Res
A story that begins in the middle of the action.
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Paradox
A situation or statement which contradicts itself.
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Pathos
Language that evokes feelings of pity or sorrow.
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Plosive
denoting a consonant that is produced by stopping the airflow using the lips, teeth, or palate, followed by a sudden release of air
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Pun
Using words with mutiple meanings while intending both, often used for comedic affect.
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Symploce
In rhetoric, symploce is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used successively at the beginning of two or more clauses or sentences and another word or phrase with a similar wording is used successively at the end of them. It is the combi
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synaesthesia
The overlapping and blending of senses.
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Volta
In a sonnet, the volta is the turn of thought or argument: in Petrarchan or Italian sonnets it occurs between the octave and the sestet, and in Shakespearean or English before the final couplet.
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Zoomorphism
Applying animal characteristics to humans.
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Semantic Field
It is a set of words grouped by meaning that refers to a specific subject.
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Something symbolic, often a story representing larger things.

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Allorgy

Card 3

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Referring to something well known Shakespeare makes allusion we may not understand.

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Card 4

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A word or idea meaning more than one thing to provoke thought.

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Card 5

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Comparing something unfamiliar to something familiar.

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