PoetryTerms

Figurative Language• A form of language use in which

writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.

• Examples include:– The next 7 slides

Personification• A figure of speech in which nonhuman things or abstract ideas are given human attributes the sky is crying dead leaves danced in the wind

blind justice

Simile• A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as.“The pavement was as hot as the sun.Johnny was flopping like a fish on a line.

Her hair was like a tangled mass of seaweed.

Metaphor• A figure of speech in which two things are compared, usually by saying one thing is another, or by substituting a more descriptive word for the more common or usual word that would be expected. The world's a stage He was a lion in battleDrowning in debtYou are my sunshine

A figure of speech that gives an

inanimate object or abstract

idea human traits and qualities.

Personification

The internet really loves to crash.

A figure of

speech in

which

statements

are

exaggerat

ed.

I could sleep for a year.

The repetition of the first

consonant sound in a

phrase.

“Tigers took Title

Today".

A word or a grouping of words that

imitates the sound it is

describing, suggesting it’s source

object.

Buzz Slurp

Bang

Stanza• Two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem.

• The stanzas of a poem are usually of the same length and follow the same pattern of meter and rhyme.

• *Similar to a paragraph in an essay.

MoodThe mood is the feeling or atmosphere of a

piece. Some examples include:A feeling of love. A feeling of doom. A feeling of fear. A feeling of pride. An atmosphere of chaos. An atmosphere of peace.

ImageryDescriptive words or phrases that appeal to any sense or any combination of senses.

He fumed and charged like an angry bull.

He fell down like an old tree falling down in a storm.

He felt like the flowers were waving him a hello.

The eerie silence was shattered by her scream

RepetitionThe repeating of words, phrases, lines, or stanzas.

Free VersePoetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.

Modern and contemporary poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries often employ free verse.

BalladA narrative poem written in four-line stanzas.

Often takes the form of songs.

Simple rhyme scheme.

RhymeThe matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. There once was a cat

who was lazy and fat.

Rhyme Scheme

•A pattern of rhyme in a poem.–AABB–AB–ABB

CoupletA grouping of two lines that rhyme

• Usually one complete idea.

The silly, funny catStood up to get my hat

RhythmThe recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.