Alliteration The repetition of consonant sounds especially at the beginning of words Examples Fetched fresh as I suppose off some sweet wood Polly planted plenty of pretty pansies ID: 708348
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Poetry Definitions
Words you need to know
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Alliteration
The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.
Examples:
"Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood."
“Polly planted plenty of pretty pansies.”Slide3
Free verse
Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme
Example:
Fog by Carl Sandburg
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.Slide4
Line
The basic structural component of a poem.
Lines can be arranged in free form, by syllables (as in a haiku), or by meter.Slide5
Line break
The place where a line of poetry ends.
It does not always have traditional punctuation. Line breaks are important because they often affect meaning.
Poets use line breaks to lead readers into multiple understandings and surprising ideas, as well as to control the flow at which they encounter ideas and images.Slide6
M
etaphor
Figure
of speech that compares two completely different objects (without using like or as) suggesting they are similar
Examples:
Her
eyes
were
fireflies
Time
is
money
Time
is a
thief
You
are my
sunshine
He
has a heart of
stone
America
is a melting
potSlide7
Onomatopoeia
Use
of words that
mimic
sounds, or sound like what they mean
.
Example:
buzz and crack
or
"murmur of innumerable bees" Slide8
Personification
Giving
human characteristics to objects, animals, or ideas.
Examples:
“The sun played hide and seek with the clouds”
“
The vines wove their fingers together to form a braid
”
“The
yellow leaves flaunted their color gaily in the breeze." Slide9
R
hyme
The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Example:
Mary Mary quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells
And pretty maids all in a row.Slide10
R
hythm/meter
The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in
poems; a pattern of syllables, a beat.
Example
(~=unaccented, /=accented)
:
~ / ~
/
~
/
~ /
All I could see from where I
stood
~ / ~ / ~ / ~ /
Was
three long mountains and a wood;Slide11
Sensory Images
H
elp the reader visualize things using the five senses
Example:
An apple, for
example
, might be described "juicy and tart." Slide12
S
imile
A figure of speech
that compares
unlike things using “like
,” “
as,” or “as though
”
Examples:
“As
dry as a bone
”
“
As easy as shooting fish in a barrel
”
“
They fought like cats and dogs
”
“
Stand out like a sore thumb”Slide13
Stanza
One or more lines that make up the basic units of a poem - separated from each other by spacing