Poetry

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Poetry

• Figures of Speech- Tools that help to create
  images in a readers mind to help him understand
  a person or an idea
• Devices of Sound- Language tools that poets use
  to help their writing sound cool also used to
  help highlight important ideas

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Simile

• Figure of speech
• A direct comparison using like or as
• Example Your nose is LIKE a button
• Example from a song

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Metaphor

• Figure of speech
• An implied/indirect comparison
• Example Her eyes were a clear, blue sky
• Example from a song

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Personification

• Figure of speech
• Human qualities attributed to inanimate objects
  or animals
• Words used to make something that is NOT real
  SEEM real or alive
• Example The wind bellowed
• Example from a song

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Hyperbole

• Figure of speech
• An extreme exaggeration to attain desired
  effect
• Example My dad had a cow when he saw my grades
• Example from a song

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Imagery

• Use of sensory information to create mental
  pictures which reinforce common themes
• Sight, sound, smell, touch, taste
• Often occurs in groups- image clusters
• Example Color imagery, Religious imagery
• Example from a song

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Symbolism

• The use of a concrete object, name, place, event
  or character to represent an abstract idea
• Example Red rose love
• River a journey
• Example from a song

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Irony

• When the opposite of whats expected occurs
• Example You cant get a job because you have
  TOO much education
• Example from a song

UGH!
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Onomatopoeia

• Device of sound
• a word which sounds like the sound it describes
• Example Buzz, honk, tweet

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Assonance

• Device of sound
• a repetition of a vowel sound
• Example My words like silent raindrops fell
• Repetition of long I sound

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Consonance

• Device of sound
• a repetition of a consonant sound
• Example Rubber baby buggy bumpers
• Repetition of B sound

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Alliteration

• Device of sound
• a repetition of a consonant sound at the
  beginning of words
• Example Tangled trail of tears
• Repetition of T sound

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Rhyme

• Device of sound
• a correspondence of sound
• Example the cat in the hat ate a rat on a mat

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• We can use these sound devices and their natural
  stressed
• syllables, lack of stress syllables, and pauses
  to create
• rhythm in poetry one of which is

Iambic Pentameter The most common verse line in
English poetry. It consists of five verse feet,
with each foot an iamb-that is, an unstressed
syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
Shakespeares plays are written almost
exclusively in iambic pentameter.