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Title: Poetic Devices - Linguistics Study Guide
Description: This study guide provides information on poetic devices, including the form and structure, types of stanzas, rhythm, rhyme schemes, sound play, word play and imagery.
Description: This study guide provides information on poetic devices, including the form and structure, types of stanzas, rhythm, rhyme schemes, sound play, word play and imagery.
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Poetic Devices
POETRY
● Writing arranged to create a particular emotional response through meaning, sound and
rhythm
FORM/STRUCTURE
● A poem's form = appearance
● Poems are divided into lines -> groups of lines = stanzas
● Stanzas function like paragraphs in a story:
They contain single ideas / take the ideas one step further
...
● Some syllables are pronounced more strongly than others ('stressed') to create a beat-like
rhythm
...
the last words of lines (aka
...
COMMON RHYME SCHEMES
Triplet
AAA
Set of 3 lines in a stanza (tercet)
Monorhyme
AAAA
Mono - Greek for one ; one rhyme throughout the
lines/poem
Alternate rhyme ABAB
Alternating the rhythm pattern throughout
Coupled rhyme
Pairs the rhymes into couples with new
AA BB
sounds/dueling sounds
Enclosed
ABBA
The 1st and 4th line rhyme ; encloses a pair of new
Rhyme
rhymes in the middle = aka
...
SOUND PLAY
● Poets play with sounds in words to create atmospheres/moods
...
COMMON SOUND PLAY
Repetition
Using a word/phrase several times
Alliteration
Repeating a beginning sound
Onomatopoeia
Words that imitate a sound
Consonance
Repetition of the same consonant sound within a group of
words
Assonance
Repetition of the same vowel sound
WORD PLAY
● Poets play with multiple meanings of words to amuse readers
...
● They use descriptive vocabulary to help readers create images in their minds of
subjects/topics
...
Appealing to the senses (sight, sound, smell, touch)
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Create meaning through symbols
Title: Poetic Devices - Linguistics Study Guide
Description: This study guide provides information on poetic devices, including the form and structure, types of stanzas, rhythm, rhyme schemes, sound play, word play and imagery.
Description: This study guide provides information on poetic devices, including the form and structure, types of stanzas, rhythm, rhyme schemes, sound play, word play and imagery.