University:
Alcorn State University
Course:
EN 213 | Studies in Literature
Academic year:

2019
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380

Pages:

11
Author:

SpaceCadet101

POETIC ANALYSIS DEFINITION: • Literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature. • A quality of beauty and intensity of emotion regarded as characteristic of poems. POETIC DEVICES: • A lot of poetry devices are also found in literature, but they are more noticeable in poetry due to its style. • Poetry is much more focused on sound and emotion. • Poetry appeals to two parts of the brain: the amygdala (emotions) and the Wernicke’s area (patterns & words). SOUND DEVICES RHYME: The matching of ending sounds in words: both vowel and consonant Exact Rhyme Example: art/heart, gasp/grasp, claw/maw, sweet/meat, load/explode Slant Rhyme Example: trade/brain, toes/clothes, nervous/Cerberus (thanks, Lin-Manuel) RHYME SCHEME: • A way to measure out the matching rhymes through assigning letters to each new sound, starting with ‘A.’ • Starting with ‘A,’ examine the next line in the poem. • If it rhymes with the first line, put an ‘A.’ • If it’s a different sound, put a ‘B.’ RHYME SCHEME What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? RHYME SCHEME Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams go, Life is a barren field Frozen with snow RHYME SCHEME Trade, Trade versus Art, Brain, Brain versus Heart; Oh, the earthiness of these hard-hearted times, When clinking dollars, and jingling dimes, Drown all the finer music of the soul. ALLITERATION: The repetition of the initial consonant letter or sound in two or more words (consecutively) in a line. Hard-hearted, high hand, cloudless climes, starry skies, day denies, dreams die, syrupy sweet ONOMATOPOEIA: Words that spell out sounds; words that sound like what they mean. Examples: clinking, jingling, ‘thwip,’ ‘snikt’ (thanks, Jack Kirby).