Poetry 1
Giving human characteristics to animals or non-living things.
Personification
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using the connecting words "like" or "as." EXAMPLE: Love is like a battlefield.
Simile
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using the connecting words "like" or "as." EXAMPLE: Love is a battlefield.
Metaphor
A single line of poetry.
Verse
A figure of speech where the writer purposely and obviously exaggerates to an extreme. It is used for emphasis or as a way of making a description more creative and humorous.
Hyperbole
This is how the reader feels when they are reading a poem. i.e.: happy, sad, excited, etc.
Mood
A phrase that expresses a figurative meaning different from the actual meaning of the words used. EXAMPLE: "Kick the bucket" is means "death."
Idiom
A word that sounds like what it means. EXAMPLE: Buzz! Click! Bang! Whoosh!
Onomatopoeia
A unified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.
Stanza
An object or action that means something more than the literal meaning.
Symbol
The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the readers.
Theme
The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. EXAMPLE: "From Forth the Fatal loins of these two Foes; A pair of star-crossed lover take their life."
Alliteration
This is a type of rhyme that occurs within a single line of poem, sometimes known as middle rhyme as well. i.e.: And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes.
Internal Rhyme
This is a type of rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sounds when the final consonant sounds are similar. i.e.: moon and run
Slant Rhyme
The attitude the poem's narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character----serious, humorous, sarcastic, etc.
Tone
This is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line. You use letters to indicate which words rhyme.
Rhyme Scheme
This is a type of rhyme that occurs when a poem as lines ending with words that sound the same.
i.e.: A word is dead
When it is said
End Rhyme
The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text. EXAMPLE: "Ivan will trY to lIght the fIre."
Assonance
The repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels in a chunk of text. Example: "A worM naMed Maurice took he garden by storM."
Consonance
Imagery