SOUNDS
Sally sells sea shells at the sea shore, surely to see if the sea can secretly sustain Sally.
Pattern of rhyme throughout stanza or poem.
Rhyme Scheme
"GET A JOB!" she barked savagely at her son's sister.
Implied Metaphor
"And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour,
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love—"
“When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be”
John Keats
Reflective, Remorseful, Contemplative, Longing, Sorrowful, Desperate*
Shakespeare's favored structure was what?
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Define this structure
Iambic Pentameter
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A poem in which each line contains 5 alternating stressed and unstressed syllables
“And where are they? I pray you tell.”
Assonance
"Until then, every forest
had wolves in it, we thought
it would be fun to wear snowshoes"
Enjambment
But coffee was his kryptonite; so he swerved across traffic, partially jumping the curb, into the black rock on the way to work.
Allusion
"Either the Darkness alters -
Or something in the sight
Adjusts itself to Midnight -
And Life steps almost straight."
“We grow accustomed to the Dark”
Emily Dickinson
Hopeful, Optimistic
This is an example of what literary device: "The rigging of the boats in harbor sparkled with flags. In the streets between houses with red roofs and painted walls, between old moss-grown gardens and under avenues of trees, past great parks and public buildings, processions moved."
The Ones Who Walk Away From OmelasImagery
“That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?”
Consonance and Assonance
A stanza consisting of 4 lines.
"Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,
O anything of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity"
Romeo and Juliet (180?)
Oxymoron
"Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
“Do Not Go Gentle into that Good night”
Dylan Thomas
Intense, demanding, insistent, rebellious, defiant, judgmental
A purposefully inconsistent rhyme and meter
Free verse
"With a clamor of bells..."
Cacophony
“The first that died was sister Jane;
In bed she moaning lay,
Till God released her of her pain;
And then she went away."
ABAB
"The Eyes around—had wrung them dry—
And Breaths were gathering firm
For that last Onset—when the King
Be witnessed—in the Room—"
Emily Dickinson
"I heard a Fly buzz—when I died"
Synecdoche
"American but hyphenated,
viewed by Anglos as perhaps exotic,
perhaps inferior, definitely different,
viewed by Mexicans as alien,"
“Legal Alien”
Pat Mora
Contemplative, confused, disillusioned, frustrated.
The American Flag is a
Symbol
"To be, or not to be, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them."
Euphony
A tree/ that may/in sum-/mers wear
Iambic Tetrameter
Every line has 8 syllables (4 stressed/ 4 unstressed) Stressed and unstressed syllables alternate.
"'Merry" and "tragical"? "Tedious" and "brief"?
That is hot ice, and wondrous strange snow!
How shall we find the concord of this discord?"
William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Juxtaposition
"The right to make my dreams come true,
I ask, nay, I demand of life;
Nor shall fate's deadly contraband
Impede my steps, nor countermand;
Too long my heart against the ground
Has beat the dusty years around;
And now at length I rise! I wake!
And stride into the morning break!"
“Calling Dreams”
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Hopeful, confident, assertive, resolved, forceful.
Ms. Hull's favorite drink
Americano with honey