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More Poetry Terms

More Poetry Terms. Some new ones for you?. Assonance Consonance Apostrophe Metonymy Synecdoche Rhetorical vs figurative devices. Assonance. The repetition of vowel sounds.

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More Poetry Terms

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  1. More Poetry Terms

  2. Some new ones for you? Assonance Consonance Apostrophe Metonymy Synecdoche Rhetorical vs figurative devices

  3. Assonance • The repetition of vowel sounds. • I bomb atomically—Socrates’ philosophies and hypotheses can’t define how I be droppin’ these mockeries. (Wu-Tang Clan “Triumph) • Whofuses the music With no illusions Producing the blueprints Clueless? (Del the Funky Homosapien “Mastermind”)

  4. Assonance • Assonance is all about sound, not the letters. Just because the letters are the same it doesn’t mean that it is assonance. The SOUND must be the same. • Treat the bread • Nothing gold can stay • You can have assonance with different letters! • Should sugar • A queasy sweep

  5. Consonance the recurrence or repetition of identical or similar consonants; specifically the correspondence of end or intermediate consonants “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,” “Struck, brickand clock”

  6. Apostrophe • When the poet directlyaddresses an absent or imaginary person or object as if he/she/it was alive and could reply. • "O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!” • Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” • "Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour“ • William Wordsworth “Milton”

  7. Metonymy • a figure of speech in which the name of something is used to refer to something that that name stands for. • "These lands belong to the crown."  Obviously, a crown doesn't own these lands.  The writer is using "crown" as metonymy – (s)he actually means "to the monarch" or "to the country ruled by the monarch.“ • "He is a man of the cloth."  The writer is actually saying that he is a man of religion, such as a minister.  "Cloth" is used to stand for "religion."

  8. Synecdoche (suh-nek-doh-key) • A figure of speech in which a part represents the whole or, less commonly, the whole represents a part. • Ex. of part representing the whole= “hired hands” for workmen • “Give us this day our daily bread” (bread represents food in general) • Ex. of the whole representing a part= “society” to mean high society

  9. Metonymy vs. Synecdoche • Here is my best attempt to explain the difference: • If the image is actually a whole thing and represents another whole thing, it is metonymy. • The land belongs to the crown. (The crown is a whole thing and represents another whole thing) • If you can see the image as part of a whole, then it is synecdoche. • I gave it to the hired hands. “Hands” are only a part of a person, so this is synecdoche.

  10. Rhetorical Devices • Have "ear appeal"Create melody in writing and make a piece pleasurable to listen to. • Examples include: • Alliteration • Assonance • consonance • Onomatopoeia

  11. Figurative Devices • A tool that an author uses to help readers visualize what is happening in the story. • Appeals more to the mind than the ear, andcreate imagery in writing. • Examples include: • Personification • Simile • Metaphor

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