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Title: Poetry Terms


1
Poetry Terms
  • Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that
    burn. Thomas Gray
  • Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought
    and the thought has found words. Robert Frost

2
Sound Devices
  • Assonance The repetition of vowel sounds at any
    place in a series of words
  • Do you like blue?
  • We viewed the movie about mooing rookies at the
    school.
  • Well he seemed so low that I couldnt say no
    Robert Service (The Cremation of Sam McGee, pg.
    709)

3
Sound Devices cont.
  • Alliteration The repetition of a sound at the
    beginning of a series of words
  • Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
  • Rain races, ripping like wind. Its restless rage
    rattles like rocks ripping through the air.
  • A fly and a flea flew up in a flue.
  • Said the fly to the flea, What shall we do?
  • Lets fly, said the flea.
  • Lets flee, said the fly.
  • So they fluttered and flew up a flaw in the
    flue.

4
Sound Devices cont.
  • Consonance The repetition of a consonant sound
    at any place in a series of words.
  • I dropped the locket in the thick mud.
  • Eric liked the black book
  • And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each
    purple curtain. Edgar Allen Poe

5
Sound Device cont.
  • Onomatopoeia The use of words whose sound makes
    one think of its meaning
  • Wham! Bonk!
  • Ding-dong
  • Cuckoo
  • Tick-tock
  • snap, crackle, pop

6
Figurative Language
  • Simile A comparison of two nouns using the words
    like or as
  • My love for you is like a red, red rose
  • Metaphor A comparison of two nouns saying that
    one thing is another
  • All the world is a stage
  • Idiom An expression that is like a saying. When
    its translated literally, it makes no sense
  • Easy as pie

7
Figurative Language cont.
  • Hyperbole Extreme exaggeration
  • The books weigh a ton.
  • I could sleep for a year.
  • I have a million things to do.
  • Personification When a non-living object has
    been given qualities of a person
  • The wind whispered through the trees
  • The moon danced on the water
  • Oreo Milks favorite cookie.

8
Figurative Language cont.
  • A Symbol a person, place, thing, or event that
    stands for itself and for something beyond itself
    as well.
  • Examples the American flag symbolizes freedom,
    liberty, and love for America.
  • A wedding band symbolizes_______.
  • A white flag symbolizes__________.

9
Figurative Language cont.
  • Prominent Symbols in Literature
  • The Four Seasons
  • Spring birth, rebirth, new beginnings, new life,
    etc.
  • Summer the prime of life, youthful, energetic,
    growing
  • Fall the decline, the approach of death, getting
    old
  • Winter death, the end of life, something comes
    to an end
  • Day life, goodness, knowledge, honesty,
    happiness, energy, purity, positive, light,
    understanding, clarity
  • Night death, evil, darkness, mystery, bad, the
    end, scary, uninformed, unknown

10
Figurative Language cont.
  • Prominent Symbols in Literature cont.
  • The Cycle of Life
  • Dawn new beginning, birth, rebirth
  • Dusk approach of the end, unknown
  • Paths/Roads journey, lifes journey, choices,
    obstacles
  • Bridges movement form one place to another
    symbolically
  • Water gives and takes life, thought to be the
    source of first life, rebirth
  • Earth mother, life giving, fertility Gardens
    fertility, life giving
  • Rocks/Doors/Weather obstacles, problems (could
    be good or bad)

11
Rhyme
  • End Rhyme Rhyme that appears at the end of two
    or more lines of poetry
  • I would not, could not, in a box.
  • I could not, would not, with a fox.
  • I will not eat them with a mouse.
  • I will not eat them in a house.
  • I will not eat them here or there.
  • I will not eat them anywhere.
  • I do not eat green eggs and ham.
  • I do not like them, Sam-I-am.

12
Rhyme
  • Internal Rhyme The rhyming of words within one
    line of poetry
  • Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,
    weak and weary
  • Over many a quaint and curious volume of
    forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping,
    suddenly there came a tapping...

13
Rhythm
  • Repetition The repeating of a word or phrase to
    add rhythm or to emphasize an idea
  • And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go
    before I sleep. Robert Frost, Stopping By
    Woods on a Snowy Evening
  • The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the
    purple moor, And the highwayman came riding-
    Riding-riding- The highwayman came riding, up to
    the old inn-door. Alfred Noyes, The
    Highwayman

14
Form
  • Stanza A division in a poem named for the number
    of lines it contains, such as a couplet (2
    lines), triplet (3 lines), quatrain (4 lines),
    and octave (8 lines)
  • This is as though the poem is broken up into
    paragraphs
  • Gleaming in silver are the hills!
  • Blazing in silver is the sea!
  • And a silvery radiance spills
  • Where the moon drives royally! James Stevens,
    Washed in Silver

15
Form cont.
  • Haiku A three-line poem that originated from
    Japan, often about nature, with a syllable
    pattern of 5, 7, 5
  • Verse The name for a line of traditional poetry
    written in meter
  • A line of poetry
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