Poetic Device Terms
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- the formal organization of rhythms in a poem
- meter
- the basic metrical unit of a poem
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stanza
- the patterns of beats or stresses in a languange
- rhythm
- repeated words or phrases to make a point
- repetition
- the repetition of initial consonant sounds
- alliteration
- the use of words to imitate sounds
- onomatopoeia
- the repetition of similar vowel sounds
- assonance
- the use of extreme exaggeration
- hyperbole
- two terms in immediate contrast to one another
- oxymoron
- uses of language to illustrate one meaning while referring to another
- irony
- choiced or use of words or language
- diction
- a self-contradictory or absurd statement
- paradox
- comparison without using like or as
- metaphor
- obscure meaning
- ambiguity
- that which represents an idea or an object
- symbol
- free of rhyme
- free verse
- line of verse with five metrical feet in a pattern of unstressed and stressed syllables
- iambic pentameter
- a comparison using like or as
- similie
- giving human characteristics to nonliving things
- personification
- two rhyming lines of poetry
- couplet