Figurative Language Techniques

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Figurative Language Techniques

• Spring 2007
• Unit 2 Poetry
• College English

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Words are the

• Poetry is language at its most distilled and most
  powerful. Rita Dove
• Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth
  power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and
  blooded with emotions, all held together by the
  delicate, tough skin of words. Paul Engle

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What to do with these slide/notes

• Find the definition of each poetry term.
• Suggested http//www.infoplease.com/spot/pmglossa
  ry1.html
• List an applicable example for each definition.
• If your example is original (that is, out of your
  own mind), star it!

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Metaphor

• DEFINITION

• EXAMPLE

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Simile

• DEFINITION

• EXAMPLE

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Alliteration

• DEFINITION

• EXAMPLE

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Assonance

• DEFINITION

• EXAMPLE

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Consonance

• DEFINITION

• EXAMPLE

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Enjambment

• DEFINITION

• EXAMPLE (written as two lines of poetry)

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Caesura

• DEFINITION

• EXAMPLE

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Hyperbole

• DEFINITION

• EXAMPLE

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Apostrophe

• DEFINITION

• EXAMPLE

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Onomatopoeia

• DEFINITION

• THREE EXAMPLES

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Personification

• DEFINITION

• EXAMPLE

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Cest Fini!

• Now, read Recovery by Kevin Woster. Identify
  his poetic techniques.