Poetry

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Poetry

• Presenting the works of Shakespeare, Poe and Frost

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Terms to know

• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Rhyme Scheme
• Personification
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Hyperbole

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Alliteration

• The repetition of the sound of the initial
  consonant
• Example Ten tired turtles

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Onomatopoeia

• The formation of words in imitation of sounds a
  figure of speech in which the sound of the word
  is imitative of the sound of the thing that the
  word represents
• Example the buzz of bees, the hiss of a goose

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Rhyme Scheme

• The arrangement of the words in a poem or stanza
• Example Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
  and sorry I could not travel both
• and be one traveler, long I stood
• And looked down one as far as I could
• -Robert Frost The Road Not Taken

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Personification

• A figure of speech in which inanimate objects or
  abstractions are endowed with human qualities or
  are represented as possessing human form
• Example Flowers danced about the lawn

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Metaphor

• A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that
  ordinarily designate another, thus making an
  implicit comparison
• Example a sea of troubles

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Simile

• A figure of speech in which two essentially
  unlike things are compared, often in a phrase
  introduced by the words like or as
• Example How like the winter hath my absence
  been (Shakespeare)

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Hyperbole

• A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used
  for emphasis or effect
• Example I could sleep for a year

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The works of William Shakespeare

• A Lovers Complaint
• The Passionate Pilgrim
• The Phoenix and the Turtle
• Venus and Adonis

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe

• The Raven
• Annabel Lee
• A Dream Within a Dream
• The Haunted Palace
• The Sleeper

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The works of Robert Frost

• The Road Not Taken
• Fire and Ice
• Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
• In Neglect