ENG 1111 Baarendse Poetry Final - Devices
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Denotation | The basic dictionary definition of a word. |
| Connotation | What a word suggests beyond its basic dictionary definition; a word's overtones of meaning. |
| Imagery | Representation through language of sense experience. Visual, Auditory, Gustatory, Olfactory, Tactile, Organic, Kinesthetic. |
| Figure of Speech | Saying one thing and meaning something else; saying something in terms of something else. |
| Simile | Comparison between two things using like or as. (comparison stated) |
| Metaphor | Comparison between two things. (comparison unstated) |
| Personification | Giving human attributes to an animal, object, or concept. |
| Apostrophe | Addressing someone absent, dead, or nonhuman as if present and alive. |
| Synecdoche | Taking a part to represent the whole. |
| Metonymy | Taking something closely related for the thing actually meant. |
| Symbol | Something that stands for itself (literal) and something else (symbolic). |
| Allegory | Narrative that has a second meaning beneath the surface. |
| Paradox | An apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true. |
| Overstatement (Hyperbole) | Saying more than what one means; exaggeration in the service of truth. |
| Understatement | Saying less than what one means. |
| Verbal Irony | Saying the opposite of what one means. |
| Satire | Ridicule of human folly or vice, with the purpose of bringing about reform. |
| Dramatic Irony | Contrast between what a character says or thinks and what the reader knows to be true. |
| Irony of Situation | Contrast between what is expected and what actually happens. |
| Allusion | A reference to something in history or previous literature. |
| Tone | The writer's or speaker's attitude toward the subject, the audience, or herself or himself; the emotional coloring, or emotional meaning, of a work. |
| Alliteration | The repetition at close intervals of the initial consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words. |
| Assonance | The repetition at close intervals of the vowel sounds of accented syllables or important words. |
| Consonance | The repetition at close intervals of the final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words. |
| Approximate/Slant Rhyme | Words with sound similarity (inexact rhymes). |
| Onomatopoeia | Words whose sound suggests their meaning. |
| Euphony/Euphonious | Smooth and pleasant sound. |
| Cacophony/Cacophonous | Rough and harsh sound. |
| Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet | A sonnet consisting of an octave rhyming abbaabba and of a sestet using any arrangement of two or three additional rhymes, such as cdcdcd or cdecde. |
| English/Shakespearean Sonnet | A sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. Its content or structure ideally parallels the rhyme scheme, falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet; but it is sometimes structured, like the Italian sonnet, into octave and sestet, the principal break in thought coming at the end of the eighth line. |
| Sentimental Poetry | Poetry that attempts to manipulate the reader's emotions in order to achieve a greater emotional response than the poem itself really warrants. (A sentimental novel or film is sometimes called, pejoratively, a "tearjerker") |
| Rhetorical Poetry | Poetry using artificially eloquent language, that is, language too high-flown for its occasion and unfaithful to the full complexity of human experience. |
| Didactic Poetry | Poetry having as a primary purpose to teach or preach. |
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