Literary Devices and Poetic Forms
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Figures of Speech
Sound Devices:
- Alliteration: Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or stressed syllables.
- Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds within words.
- Consonance: Repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of words.
- Onomatopoeia: Words that imitate sounds.
Figurative Language:
- Anaphora: Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses.
- Anadiplosis: Repetition of the last word of one clause or verse at the beginning of the next.
- Antithesis: Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas.
- Apostrophe: Addressing an absent person, abstract idea, or inanimate object.
- Asyndeton: Omission of conjunctions between words or phrases.
- Chiasmus: Repetition of words in reverse order.
- Ellipsis: Omission of words that are implied by the context.
- Epiphora: Repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses or verses.
- Epizeuxis: Repetition of a word or phrase immediately for emphasis.
- Hyperbole: Exaggeration for emphasis.
- Hyperbaton: Unusual word order for emphasis.
- Irony: Saying the opposite of what is meant.
- Metaphor: Comparison of two unlike things without using "like" or "as."
- Metonymy: Substitution of a related term for the word itself.
- Oxymoron: Combination of contradictory terms.
- Paradox: A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true.
- Parallelism: Repetition of similar grammatical structures.
- Personification: Giving human qualities to inanimate objects.
- Pleonasm: Use of redundant words for emphasis.
- Polysyndeton: Use of multiple conjunctions.
- Paronomasia: Use of words that are similar in sound but different in meaning (pun).
- Rhetorical Question: A question asked for effect, not requiring an answer.
- Simile: Comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as."
- Synecdoche: Using a part to represent the whole or vice versa.
Poetic Forms and Structures
Stanzas and Verse Forms:
- Couplet: Two lines of verse, usually rhyming.
- Tercet: Three lines of verse.
- Quatrain: Four lines of verse.
- Quintet: Five lines of verse.
- Sestet: Six lines of verse.
- Octave: Eight lines of verse.
Specific Poetic Forms:
- Ballad: Narrative poem, often with a repeating refrain.
- Elegy: Poem of mourning.
- Epigram: Short, witty poem.
- Haiku: Japanese poem with three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.
- Limerick: Humorous five-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme.
- Ode: Lyrical poem, often addressed to a particular subject.
- Sonnet: Fourteen-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme.
Literary Analysis
When analyzing poetry, consider the following:
- Theme: The central idea or message.
- Structure: The organization of the poem.
- Literary Devices: The use of figures of speech and other techniques.
- Verse: The rhythmic pattern of lines.
- Meter: The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.