Poems
"The hoary Colleges look down on careless boys at play. But when the bugles sounded war, they put their games away. They left the peaceful river, the cricket-field, the quad."
The Spires of Oxford
A 14 lined poem
Sonnet
Giving human qualities to an inanimate object
Personification
"Below the elbow"
Anagram
Do I drink coffee? Yes or no.
Yes!
"For washing me cleaner than I have been since I was born into this solitude... Helpless among the living and the dead, like a cold water among broken reeds, myriads of broken reeds all still and stiff."
A turn of thought or change in the tone of the poem.
A dramatic realization of one or more of the characters in a poem or piece of literature
Epiphany
Irony
What is the name of the prayer that we say before class?
Hail Mary
"Saints have adorned the lofty soul of you. Poets have whitened at your high renown... We see your straight and steadfast signpost there. I think it like that signpost in my land, hoary and tall, which pointed me to go upward, into the hills, on the right hand, where mists swim and the winds shriek."
Two Sonnets
The way of measuring the beat of a poem by placing letters at the end of each line.
Rhyme Scheme
Using two different senses (sight, sound, taste, touch, smell) together in order to describe something.
Synesthesia
"The dove flew over the house and a calm air settled."
Symbolism
Do I write with my right hand or my left hand?
Right
"Their ghosts...did fall that day. When twenty hounds streamed by me, not yet combed out but still all equal in their rage of gladness... In Blooming Meadow that bends toward the sun."
Tears
A comparison of two unlike things using words such as like, as, than, resembles, etc.
Simile
Purposely placing two different/contrasting words or ideas together to create a thought.
Juxtaposition
Allusion
I teach another grade in addition to Freshman. What other grade do I teach?
Seniors
"Losing your sight... there's such splendid work for the blind; and people will always be kind, as you sit on the terrace remembering."
Does it Matter
When a poet uses words to create a depiction of the setting in the reader's mind.
Imagery
A word, phrase, or name formed by rearranging the letters of another word.
Anagram
Assonance
My sisters and I are all named after first ladies. Which first lady am I named after?
Jacqueline Kennedy