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You are  \nalready familiar with many of these.  \nReminder: it won’t matter if you can identify what device is used IF YOU CAN’T discuss the devise’s purpose in the poem. HOW  \ndoes it affect the poem? Why did the author use it?  \n1. alliteration-the repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginnings of words. “Gnus never know pneumonia” is an example of alliteration since, despite the spellings, all four words begin with the “n” sound.  \n2. allusion-a reference in a work of literature to something outside the work, especially to a well-known historical or literary event, person, or work. When T.S. Eliot writes, \"To have squeezed the universe into a ball\" in \"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,\" he is alluding to the lines \"Let us roll our strength and all/ Our sweetness up into one ball\" in Marvell's \"To His Coy Mistress. \"  \n3. antithesis-a figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words, clauses, sentences, or ideas, as in “Man proposes; God disposes.” Antithesis is a balancing of one term against another for emphasis or stylistic effectiveness. The second line of the following couplet by Alexander Pope is an example of antithesis:  \nThe hungry judges soon the sentence sign,  \nAnd wretches hang that jury-men may dine.  \n4. apostrophe-a figure of speech in which someone (usually, but not always absent), some abstract quality, or a nonexistent personage is directly addressed as though present. Following are two examples of apostrophe:  \nPapa Above!  \nRegard a Mouse.  \n-Emily Dickinson  \nMilton! Thou shouldst be living in this hour;  \nEngland hath need of thee …  \n-William Wordsworth  \n5. assonance-the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds. “A land laid waste with all its young men slain” repeats the same “a” sound in “laid,” “waste,” and “slain.”  \n6. ballad meter-a four-line stanza rhymed abcd with four feet in lines one and three and three feet in lines two and four.  \nO mother, mother make my bed.  \nO make it soft and narrow.  \nSince my love died for me today,  \nI’ll die for him tomorrow.  \n7. blank verse-unrhymed iambic pentameter. Blank verse is the meter of most of Shakespeare’s plays, as well as that of Milton’s Paradise Lost.  \n8. cacophony-a harsh, unpleasant combination of sounds or tones. It may be an unconscious flaw in the poet’s music, resulting in harshness of sound or difficulty of articulation, or it may be used consciously for effect, as Browning and Eliot often use it. See, for example, the following line from Browning’s“Rabbi Ben Ezra”:  \nIrks care the crop-full bird? Frets doubt the maw-crammed beast?  \n9. caesura-a pause, usually near the middle of a line of verse, usually indicated by the sense of the line, and often greater than the normal pause. For example, one would naturally pause after “human’ in the following line from Alexander Pope:  \nTo err is human, to forgive divine.  \n10. conceit-an ingenious and fanciful notion or conception, usually expressed through an elaborate analogy, and pointing to a striking parallel between two seemingly dissimilar things. A conceit may be a brief metaphor, but it also may form the framework of an entire poem. A famous example of a conceit occurs in John Donne’s poem “AValediction: Forbidding Mourning,” in which he compares his soul and his wife’s to legs of a mathematical compass.  \n11. consonance-the repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words. The term usually refers to words in which the ending consonants are the same but the vowels that precede them are different. Consonance is found in the following pairs of words: “add” and “read,”“bill and ball,” and“born” and “burn.”  \n12. couplet-a two-line stanza, usually with end-rhymes the same.  \n13. devices of sound-the techniques of deploying the sound of words, especially in poetry. Among devices of s","cbCail67Lrw4juGI","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCail67Lrw4juGI","pdf",130904,"English","# Literary Terms and Definitions\n## Sound, Structure, and Rhetorical Devices\n## Poetic Meter and Line Forms\n## Poem Types and Style Elements","[{\"question\":\"What is blank verse and where is it commonly used?\",\"answer\":\"Blank verse is unrhymed iambic pentameter. It is described as the meter of many Shakespeare plays and Milton’s Paradise Lost.\"}]","AP English Poetry Terms - Listed and defined literary terms | PDF",1790886821]