Rhyme
rhyme at the end of a line of poetry
end rhyme
the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. “sweet birds sang songs”
alliteration
a subdivision of a poem, specifically a group of words arranged into a row that ends for a reason other than the right-hand margin. (you number them)
line
Language has its own natural rhythms, created by the stressed (/) and unstressed (⌣) syllables of words.
meter
it's like I'm in flight High off of love
simile
Click, click, boom!
I'm coming down on the stereo, hear me on the radio
Click, click, boom!
I'm coming down with the new style and you know it's buck wild
onomatopoeia
Two Roads diverged in a yellow wood
visual imagery
rhyming words placed within a line The mouse in the house woke the cat.
internal rhyme
the repetition of vowel sounds in words, as with the long e sound “dreams of bees and sheep”
assonance
a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem; a verse.
stanza
The stressed and unstressed syllables are then divided into units called
feet
I'm Superman, with the wind at his back, she's Lois Lane
Metaphor
I'm never gunna dance again, Guilty feet have got no rhythm
personification
Swish of strings like silk
audio imagery
words that end in a similar but not exact sound proved and loved
slant rhyme
repeating words with purpose or for effect
repetition
19 lines, set rhyme scheme, first and third line repeat
Villanelle
⌣ /
iamb
You ever love somebody so much you can barely breathe when you're with 'em?
hyperbole
'Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter
And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet"
But you were everything to me
I was beggin' you, "Please don't go, " and I said
Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting, all there's left to do is run
Allusion to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and to the novel The Scarlet Letter
Don't be polite.
Bite in.
Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that
may run down your chin.
It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.
Gustatory imagery (taste)
words that end in both the same vowel and the same consonant sound. Sun and fun.
exact, true rhyme
words that mimic sounds: buzzing bee
onomatopoeia
14 lines, octet & sestet, rhyme scheme can vary,
Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet
⌣ / ⌣ / ⌣ / ⌣ / ⌣ /
iambic pentameter
You push, pull each other's hair,
alliteration
It's the eye of the tiger
It's the thrill of the fight
Rising up to the challenge of our rival
And the last known survivor
Stalks his prey in the night
symbolism
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
olfactory imagery (smell)
A set pattern of rhyme
rhyme scheme
the repetition of the same consonant sounds in a line of text; “mike likes his new bike”
consonance
14 lines poem, iambic pentameter, set rhyme scheme, 3 quatrains, couplet
Shakespearean Sonnet
The Raven is written in what rhythm?
⌣ / ⌣ / ⌣ / ⌣ / ⌣ /⌣ / ⌣ / ⌣ /
iambic octameter
Just gunna stand there and watch me burn? Well, that's al'right, because I like the way it hurts.
meiosis
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
idiom
It’s winter in my body all year long, I wake up
with music pouring from my skin, morning
burning behind closed blinds. Dead
light, dead warmth on dead skin
cells, the sky is wrong
again. Hope clings to me like damp
sheets, lies to my skin. As if I were a coat
wearing my bare body out on loan,
tactile imagery