Sound Devices
Cat, Hat, Rat, Flat, Splat
Are an example of...
Rhyme
Poe's Raven always saying "Nevermore."
What is Repetition?
A reference in a literary work to another piece of literature, the Bible, culture, or history
Allusion
a poem that reflects upon death or loss.
Elegy
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
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Stressed and unstressed
Example: Beat
Rhythm
The repetition of one or more phrases or lines at the end of a stanza
Hint: It can also be an entire stanza repeated, like the chorus of a song
Refrain
The warm doughnut tasted sweet with hints of vanilla and strawberry
This is an example of _______
Imagery
a lengthy, narrative work of poetry, typically detail extraordinary feats and adventures of characters from a distant past
Epic
The woodpecker pecked out a little round hole
And made him a house in the telephone pole.
One day when I watched he poked out his head,
And he had on a hood and a collar of red.
When the streams of rain pour out of the sky,
And the sparkles of lightning go flashing by,
And the big, big wheels of thunder roll,
He can snuggle back in the telephone pole.
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__________ is a word that names the sound it makes
Example: Pop, Honk, Buzz, Splat
Onomatopoeia
Two lines that rhyme.
Couplet
Giving human characteristics to objects, ideas, or animals.
For example: "The door jumped in my way"
Personification
a three-line poetic form, originating in Japan, that frequently explores nature. The first line has five syllables, the second line has seven syllables, and the third line again has five syllables.
Haiku
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep
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A ______ is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line
Meter
A division or group of lines in a poem that can allow for shifts in tone, theme, or voice
stanza
An exaggeration
For example: "Not in a million years"
Hyperbole
fourteen-line poem that follows a specific rhyme scheme, often about love
sonnet
Like trains of cars on tracks of plush
I hear the level bee:
A jar across the flowers goes,
Their velvet masonry
Withstands until the sweet assault
Their chivalry consumes,
While he, victorious, tilts away
To vanquish other blooms.
His feet are shod with gauze,
His helmet is of gold;
His breast, a single onyx
With chrysoprase, inlaid.
His labor is a chant,
His idleness a tune;
Oh, for a bee’s experience
Of clovers and of noon!
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_______ is the repetition of the same consonate at the beginning of the words
Aliteration
Pattern of rhyme marked with letters to indicate which words rhyme, such as ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH II
Rhyme Scheme
Something that stands for more than itself and goes beyond a literal meaning
Symbol
poem that concerns the natural world, rural life, and landscapes.
pastoral
My letters! all dead paper, ... mute and white ! —
And yet they seem alive and quivering
Against my tremulous hands which loose the string
And let them drop down on my knee to-night.
This said, ... he wished to have me in his sight
Once, as a friend: this fixed a day in spring
To come and touch my hand ... a simple thing,
Yet I wept for it! — this, ... the paper's light ...
Said, Dear, I love thee; and I sank and quailed
As if God's future thundered on my past.
This said, I am thine — and so its ink has paled
With lying at my heart that beat too fast.
And this ... O Love, thy words have ill availed,
If, what this said, I dared repeat at last!
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