Figures of speech
Her hair shines like gold.
Simile:
Comparison made between two different objects, people, and so on, using the word 'like' or 'as'.
Sam slowly sipped his sweet tea by the shore.
Sibilance:
When words near each other begin with the same letter.
The old man walked down the street, down the street, down the street.
Repetition
Poems that are made up of 14 lines and usually deal with love.
Sonnet
The poem Rain was written during ...
WW1
The moon looked down on the earth.
Personification:
The attribution of human characteristics to things, abstract ideas.
How they clang, and clash, and roar!
(not alliteration)
Onomatopoeia:
The sound of the word matches its meaning.
I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?
(not caesura, nor rhetorical question)
Enjambment:
A continuation of a phrase beyond the end of a line of poetry.
Poetry that does not adhere to the traditional rules of meter, rhyme, or specific poetic forms.
Free verse
What product is the speaker evaluating in A Consumer's Report?
Life
Life is a journey. Each step takes us further, each turn opens to the unknown, and we sometimes stumble, but forward is the only direction.
Extended metaphor:
An image which is extended across a piece of writing.
Traffic figures, on July Fourth, to be tough.
Consonance:
The repetition of consonant sounds in a sequence of words with different beginnings.
To be, or not to be — that is the question.
(not repetition)
Caesura:
A pause at or near the middle of a poetic line.
A pair of rhyming lines, which are usually the same length and have the same metre.
Couplet
Title of the poem?
Year, if you have no Mother's day present planned,
Reach back and bring me the firmness of her hand.
Request to a Year
“But when the melancholy fit shall fall
Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud
That fosters the droop-headed flowers all
And hides the green hills in an April shroud”
Pathetic fallacy:
When human emotion is attributed to a natural scene, often the weather.
His tender heir might bear his memory.
(not internal rhyme)
Assonance:
The repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words with different consonant beginnings.
I drove myself to the lake / and dove into the water.
(not enjambment)
Internal rhyme:
Rhyme that occurs in the middle of lines of poetry, instead of at the ends of lines.
A poem that tells a story.
e.g. The Raven (E.A. Poe)
Narrative poem
Name of the poet?
Away, melancholy,
Away with it, let it go.
Stevie Smith
white blackness
Oxymoron:
A combination of opposing ideas.
The fair breeze blow, the white foam flew / The furrow followed free.
(Coleridge)
Alliteration:
Repeated consonant sounds at the start of a sequence of words.
It rained on his lousy tombstone, and it rained on the grass on his stomach. It rained all over the place.
(not repetition)
Anaphora:
The deliberate repetition of the first part of a sentence for effect
Type of sonnet?
Some hand, that never meant to do thee hurt,
Has crushed thee here between these pages pent;
But thou has left thine own fair monument,
Thy wings gleam out and tell me what thou wert:
Oh! that the memories, that survive us here,
Were half as lovely as these wings of thine.
Pure relics of a blameless life, that shine
Now thou art gone: Our doom is ever near:
The peril is beside us day by day;
The book will close upon us, it may be,
Just as we lift ourselves to soar away
Upon the summer airs. But, unlike thee,
The closing book may stop our vital breath,
Yet leave no lustre on our page of death.
Shakespearean sonnet
Complete the quotation:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and ...
despair