Poetry Terms
What is Assonance?
Repetition of vowel sounds in repeated words in lines of poetry. "Green Leaved Peach Tree."
What is Personifaction?
Giving something non-human human qualities.
"Friday calls to us from far away."
Scapegoating:
Singling out a person as a target. The boy on trial is scapegoated at times by various jurors.
"Green Leaved Peach Tree."
Assonance
"Friday calls to us from far away."
Personification
What is Alliteration?
Repetition of consonant sounds in repeated words in lines of poetry. "Peter Piper Picked a Peck…"
What is a Simile?
Comparison of two unlike things, using the word "like" or "as." "Your face is like a stone."
Appeal to Authority
Using the status of an expert to substitute for the possibility of being wrong. "My doctor told me I'm going to the NFL"
"Peter Piper Picked a Peck..."
Alliteration
"Your face is like a stone"
Simile
What is Slant Rhyme?
End words, paired, that seem to rhyme, but that don't exactly rhyme. "Brow//Flow"
What is Synedoche?
Part stands for the whole. "Ten thousand swords stood against us."
Appeal to Pity, Fear, Shame, (and/or other emotions):
The emotion is made to seem greater than the reality. "Officer, if you give me that ticket, my parents will kill me!"
"Brow/Flow"
Slant Rhyme
"Ten thousand swords stood against us."
Synecdoche
What is Apostrophe?
Speaking to something that can't speak back
"O, rose, thou art sick."
Red Herring:
Distracting by diverting attention to another issue. "Never mind the milk, comrades, the harvest is more important."
Slippery Slope:
One thing made to guarantee a series of bad consequences, one after the other. "If I fail math, I won't graduate, and then I will eventually end up homeless."
"O,rose, thou art sick."
Apostrophe
"He is too short, so he can't be a good English teacher."
Personal Attack
What is a Metaphor?
Comparison of two unlike things. "Your face is a stone."
Personal Attack:
Attacking the person, not the issue. "He is too short, so he can't be a good English teacher."
Bandwagon:
Appeal to group values, even if those values are wrong. "Everyone is cheating, so I will, too. It's no big deal."
"Your face is a stone"
Metaphor
"My doctor told me I am going to the NFL"
Appeal to Authority