Unit 1 Vocabulary

Unit 1 VocabularyLiterary Language

Figurative Language and Sound DevicesDictionAlliterationAssonance / Consonance Onomatopoeia PersonificationImagerySimile / MetaphorSymbolismTone / MoodIronySpeakerRhythm / RhymeStanza / LineInferenceTypes of Poetry: LimerickNarrativeFree VerseSonnet

DictionDEFENITION

Style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of words: good diction.EXAMPLE

You got a purty face.

Your beauty will haunt my dreams. AlliterationDEFINITION

Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse.

EXAMPLE

Susan sells seashells by the sea shore. Tongue twisters

Forms of AlliterationAssonanceConsonanceThe repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words.

How now brown cow.

The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words.

A stoke of luck for just a buck. OnomatopoeiaUsing words that imitate the sound they denote.

BuzzZIPZooM

BOOMThe act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc..

PersonificationDisney cartoons: Beauty and the Beast, Toy Story, Shrek.

Talking Dogs

Dancing Frogs

IMAGERYImagery is the use of vivid description, usually rich in sensory words, to create pictures, or images, in the reader's mind.ExamplesHe could hear the footsteps of doom nearing.The taste of sweet strawberries danced on my tongue. The flash was a blinding array of colors. ComparisonSimileMetaphorA comparison of two unlike things by use of like or as.

ExampleMy love for you is like an ocean.He fights like a lion when in battle. A direct comparison of two unlike things.

ExampleMy love for you is an ocean. He is a lion in battle.

SymbolismThe practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character.

ToneMOOD The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author. Writers attitude.

A prevailing atmosphere or feeling .The general feeling of the poem. What emotion is the author trying to convey?IronyThe humorous or mildly sarcastic use of words to imply the opposite of what they normally mean .An outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected. ExampleAlanis Morissette song: IronicA traffic jam when you're already late A no-smoking sign on your cigarette breakIt's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knifeIt's meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting hisbeautiful wife

Self explanatory wordsInference: Speaker- Voice of the written work. (NOT the author)Rhythm- The beat of the written workRhyme-Words that sound the sameStanza- Paragraph in a poem. Verse.Line- sentence in a stanza.

To draw conclusions. To make an educated guess.

I can infer they like each other.

SOME Types of PoetryLimerickNarrative A humorous verse form of 5 anapestic lines with a rhyme scheme aabba.

A flea and a fly in a flueWere caught, so what could they do?Said the fly, "Let us flee.""Let us fly," said the flea.So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

Type of poetry that tells a story.

Epic Poems

The Iliad, The OdysseyFree VerseSonnetUnrhymed versewithout a consistent metrical pattern.No real rules.

A verse form consistingof 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme.

ExampleMY mistress eyes are nothing like the sun Coral is far more red than her lips red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damaskd, red and white, 5 But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound: 10 I grant I never saw a goddess go, My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.