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Poetry notes II

Poetry notes II. Tropes. A trope is a word referring to figurative language. It is the larger, overarching word used to describe poetic devices such as: hyperbole, metaphors, and allusions. Tropes are often common, and found throughout different texts and genres.

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Poetry notes II

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  1. Poetry notes II

  2. Tropes • A trope is a word referring to figurative language. It is the larger, overarching word used to describe poetic devices such as: hyperbole, metaphors, and allusions. • Tropes are often common, and found throughout different texts and genres. • For Example: The trope of good vs. evil, a damsel in distress, or a hero story such as Little Red Riding Hood’s savior.

  3. Cliché • Clichés are tropes that have been done so often that they are well known, and boring. They come off to the reader as though the writer has run out of original ideas. • Clichés can come in the form of: phrases such as “in the nick of time” or “at the speed of light”, descriptions of people “he was as brave as a lion” or “she was a diamond in the rough”, or about emotions “opposites attract” or “every cloud has a silver lining”

  4. Motif and Repetition • A poetic Motif is a recurring element that has a symbolic significance in a story or poem. • Motifs and repetitions are created through use of imagery, metaphors, and connotative diction. • They often connect different parts of the plot through use of repeated images. • For example: Poison in “Romeo and Juliet” is mentioned early in the play, but it is not shown to be evil. It is simply shown as the byproduct of a plant; it is what humans do with it that makes it good or bad.

  5. Alliteration and Consonance • Alliteration is the repetition of the same sounds or the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words. • Example: Robert Frost’s “Acquainted with the Night”, “I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet.” • Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds anywhere within the word. • Example: “The Raven”, “And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain.”

  6. Onomatopoeia • An onomatopoeia is a word that phonetically imitates the sound that it describes. • Example: While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door— "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door—

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