Ela 8 Musical Devices

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ELA 8 Poetry Terms
Musical Devices -

Couplet -

Satire -

Allegory -

Dialect -

Rhyme Scheme -

Allusion -

Symbol -

Personification -

Diction -

Voice -

Mood -

Tone -

Ambiguity -

Theme -

___________ a typical character, an action, or a situation that seems to represent universal patterns of human nature. Also known as “universal symbol” may be a character, a theme, a symbol, or even a setting.

__________ a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings.

__________ a voice that talks to the reader.

__________ a type of sonnet written in iambic pentameter, consisting of three quatrains and a final couplet with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg.
__________ a poem of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, that has one of two regular rhyme schemes

__________ 4 lined unit in a