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TC Poetic Devices
TC Poetry
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The way a poem looks on the page, its shape. | Form |
| The repeating of sounds, words, phrases, or lines for an effect. | Repetition |
| Group of lines arranged together, similar to the paragraph in prose. | Stanza |
| The beat of a poem, made of patterns of accented and un-accented syllables. | Rhythm or meter |
| Repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words. | Alliteration |
| Includes mental pictures that words put into a reader's mind. It is also reference to the five senses created by language - touch, smell, sounds, etc. | Imagery |
| When a writer gives human qualities to nonhumans and objects. | Personification |
| The author's attitude toward the subject or her reader. | Tone |
| An extreme over-exaggeration. | Hyperbole |
| What makes a work of literature, or any art work, a classic? | Universal, timeless themes |
| Not what is said by an author but HOW it's said. | Style |
| A small world that represents a larger one. | Microcosm |
| A reference to something or someone famous. | Allusion |
| When an author says one thing but means another. | Verbal irony |
| A twist from what's expected to something else (usually there's a deep meaning behind this twist) | Situational irony |
| When the audience knows something a character does not know. | Dramatic irony |
| In ancient Greek drama, when tragic events would occur, some thought the gods were playing tricks on them for their own amusement. | Cosmic irony |
| Of what are these examples? Good vs. evil, heroism vs. cowardice, undying love, rags to riches. | Universal themes |
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