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Have you sat in a lecture and had your lecturer ask the class to define terms such as Sibilance, Caesura, Chiasmus, Zeugma or Synecdoche? These are not names of pasta dishes, rather they're poetic devices often found in poems. When writing a poetry analysis, lecturers often expect you to analyze ot...

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Poetry
Reading a poem
Step 1: Notice title, consider title, decide what poem is about
Step 2: Read poem, look up any words you don’t understand
Step 3: What is the poem about?
Step 4: What is the theme(what the poet wants to say about the subject, what the poem is
about) of the poem?
Step 5: Who is the poet?
Step 6: Look up relevant info pertaining to the poem
Step 7: What kind of poem is this?

Poetry Aspects
Term Definition Example
Sound Devices
o To stress key words
o To link key words
o To create onomatopoeia by making the poem sound like the thing it is describing

Alliteration Consonants at start of words are She sells sea shells
repeated
Assonance Vowels within words are The loud sound of the crowd
repeated

Consonance Consonants repeated in various Butter lettuce tastes
places of words tremendous


Rhythm Poetry realizes on rhythm, the sentence structure and line
structure influence rhythm


Metre

In lines
Anapestic duh-duh-DUH But of course!
Dactylic DUH-duh-duh Honestly
Iambic duh-DUH(unstressed, stressed) Collapse
Trochaic DUH-duh pizza
In feet
Spondaic DUH-DUH Good grief!
Pyrrhic duh-duh In the
Repetitions
Monometer 1 foot
Dimeter 2 feet
Trimeter 3 feet
Tetrameter 4 feet

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