The pattern of beats or stress in written language.
Rhythm
This is where words have the same ending sound.
What is Rhyme?
A comparison of 2 unlikely items using like or as.
What is a simile?
Simile, hyperbole, or metaphor.
EX. It's raining cats and dogs!
What is figurative language?
A noun that the sentence is based on or is the main part.
What is a subject?
The regular pattern of rhyming words at the end lines of a poem.
Rhyme Scheme
Division of lines into groups.
Or a paragraph in a poem.
What is a stanza?
A direct comparison between 2 unlike things without using the words like or as.
What is a metaphor?
Readers feeling toward the poem.
What is mood?
It describes a noun.
What is a adjective?
What is the rhyme scheme of the poem below.
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
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A
B
B
C
The difference between the way something appears and what is actually true.
Ex.
What is irony?
Language using one or more of the 5 senses to describe something.
What is imagery?
Words formed by mimicking the sound they make.
What is onomotopeoia?
An action word.
EX. The cat climbed the tree.
What is a verb?
This graphic technique capitalized the first word in a line.
capitalization
Occurs when the author uses the same letter or sound to begin each word in a string of words.
What is alliteration?
Exaggerated comment or line used for effect and not meant to be taken literally.
What is hyperbole?
A form of literature that uses rhyming qualities of language.
EX.
What is poetry?
Expressing a thing that will happen, already happened, or happening now.
EX. Past, present, or future.
What is a tense?
This graphic technique position words to different places in the poem to achieve creative style.
Word position
Occurs when the author gives the animal or object ideas or actions.
Hint: Human Qualities
What is personification?
This is how the readers feel as they read the poem.
Mood
This is the attitude of the writer toward the audience, subject, or character.
Tone
Has on independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
What is a complex sentence?