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Images. Images are pictures (with words): “The sky was blood red, and the dust made the plains look like a giant beach with no water in sight.”. Figures of Speech. Language that makes connections between dissimilar (different) things Personification Simile Metaphor. Stanzas. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Images
• Images are pictures (with words):
“The sky was blood red, and the dust made the plains look like a giant beach with no water in sight.”
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Figures of Speech
• Language that makes connections between dissimilar (different) things
• Personification• Simile• Metaphor
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Stanzas
• Groups of Lines in a Poem
“I rise to makefour prayers of
thanksgiving forthis fine clear day,”
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Simile
• Compares two unlike things, using a specific word of comparison such as “like” or “as.”
He was as big as a mountain.
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Metaphor
• Directly compares two unlike things without the use of a specific word of comparison.
He is a mountain of a man!
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Extended Metaphor
• A metaphor developed or extended through several lines.
This mountain of a manStood over everything around him,
Blocked out the sunAnd rumbled in bad weather
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Personification
• Giving a human characteristic to a nonhuman thing.
The stars danced in the night.
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Tone
• The way a writer feels about a subject.
My school was dark and cold,And it was like we studied in a cave
full of alumni’s bones,with trolls for teachers…
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Imagery
• Language that appeals to the senses.
“How thin and sharp is the moon tonight!How thin and sharp and ghostly white
Is the thin curved crook of the moon tonight.”
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Narrative Poem
• A poem that tells a story.
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Lyric Poem
• A poem that expresses an emotion
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Sonnet
• A lyric poem of exactly fourteen lines.
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Ode
• A poem that pays tribute (honors or praises) someone or something.
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Rhythm
• Refers to the rise and fall of our voices as we use language.
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Rhyme
• Words that have different beginning sounds but the same ending sounds.
• Fat/cat/rat/sat
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End rhyme
• Rhymes that occur at the end of two or more lines:
“Moldy melons, dried-up mustard,Eggshells mixed with lemon custard”
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Internal Rhyme
• Words that rhyme within lines.
“Candy the yams and spice the hams.”
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Rhyme Scheme
• The pattern of rhymes in a poem:Example of an abcb poem:
Roses are red,Violets are blue,This class stinksAnd so do you…
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Alliteration
• Repetition of a consonant sound in words that are close together:
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
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Onomatopoeia
• Use of words with sounds that echo their meaning:
• Pow, Bang, clickety clack, varoom…
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Couplet
• Two lines in a row that rhyme and express a complete thought:
I think that I shall never seeAnything as lovely as a tree.
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Elegy
• A peom that mourns the passing of something.
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Repetition
• Words or lines or stanzas that repeat.
Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling…
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Free Verse Poem
• A poem without rhyme scheme or regular meter.