POETRY TERMS

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POETRY TERMS

• Dont worry these ones are fun ?
• (PS. all vocabulary is in bold)

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SOUNDS LIKE

• Alliteration
• Repetition of similar CONSONANT sounds
• e.g.. Students study very shortly on Sundays.
• Assonance
• Repetition of similar VOWEL sounds
• e.g.. The long song dragged on.
• Onomatopoeia
• A word whose sound imitates its meaning.
• e.g.. WHOOSH!!! The wind blew by suddenly
• Refrain
• Repeated word, phrase, line, or group of lines
• e.g.. He was like, ya, like totally, like,
  awesome! (bad example)

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FIGURE OF SPEECH

• One thing is described in terms of another, not
  meant to be taken literally
• Also called figurative language
• All terms in the next two slides are different
  kinds of figurative language

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METAPHORS

• A comparison of two unlike things without using
  like or as
• Implied does not directly tell that one thing is
  something else
• Extended a metaphor that is developed over many
  lines
• Dead an overused metaphor
• Mixed inconsistent mixture of two metaphors

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LOOKS LIKE

• Simile
• A comparison btw 2 unlike things using like or
  as
• eg. You can make this one up, its as easy as pie
• Personification
• A metaphor talking about a nonhuman thing as
  human
• eg. The skies cry their tears over the earth.
• Hyperbole
• An exaggeration to express strong emotion or
  comedy
• eg. Im so hungry I could eat a whole elephant

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AHHH. The senses

• Imagery
• Language that appeals to the senses
• E.g.. The warm suns rays soothe the weary souls
  who have traveled from the bitter cold, raging
  blizzards to CALIFORNIA!!

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Whats my shape?

• Poetry a rhythmic, compressed language that uses
  figures of speech and imagery to appeal to the
  reader
• Lyric Poetry Poetry aimed at the readers
  emotions
• Haiku Japanese verse form w/ 3 lines 17
  syllables
• Ballad Song/Poetry that tells a story (think
  about all the country songs youve heardthats
  it)

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Cont

• Free verse Poetry w/ not regular rhythm or rhyme
  scheme
• Blank verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic
  pentameter
• Stanza A group of lines in a poem that form a
  unit (the paragraphs of poetry)

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Can you keep the beat?

• Rhythm Musical quality in language produced by
  repetition
• Meter Generally regular pattern of stressed and
  unstressed syllables
• Iambic Pentameter line of poetry that contains 5
  iambs
• u/ u/ u/ u/ u/ (iamb is unstressed, stressed)

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Cont

• Rhyme Repetition of accented vowel sounds and
  all sounds following them
• End rhyme (rhymes at the END of the line)
• Internal Rhyme (rhymes in the MIDDLE of the
  line)
• Rhyme Scheme (pattern of end rhymes)
• Couplet 2 consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme

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Lots of VOCABbut useful

• SO YOU USE IT!!
• ?THE END?