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Terms you need to know! You have the main definition in your Terms Package examples and practice you will write on your own notes page Ready...

Definition: A directly expressed comparison, a figure of speech comparing two objects using like, as or than Example: He ran as fast as a cheetah Example: My love for you is like an infection Your turn write two of your own similes!

Definition: Metaphor A figurative use of language in which a comparison is expressed without the use of the comparative terms: like, as or than Example: Men are pigs Your turn write your own metaphor!

Alliteration Definition: The repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds, normally at the beginning of words. Example: Norbert never knew of pneumonia Example: All antelopes are air heads. Your turn write two of your own Alliterations!

Personification Definition: A kind of metaphor that gives inanimate objects or abstract ideas human characteristics. Example: The tree danced! Example: The building stared out of boredom

Definition Hyperbole A deliberate, extravagant, or outrageous exaggeration! Example: I m so hungry I could eat a horse! Your turn! Write a hyperbole!

Types of Stanzas in Poetry Couplet: A two line stanza, usually with end- rhymes the same. Tercet: A stanza of three lines, usually ending with the same rhyme Quatrain: A four-line stanza, with any combination of rhymes

Couplet: Write your own! There once was a tree Who wanted to see Tercet... Quatrain...

Stanza and Meter Stanza: usually a repeated grouping of three or more lines with the same meter and rhyme scheme Meter: The repetition of a regular rhythmic unit in a line of poetry. *Each unit of meter is known as a foot

Stressed and Unstressed Syllables The meters with two-syllable feet are IAMBIC (x /) : That time of year thou mayst in me behold Iambic pentameter (5 iambs, 10 syllables) That time of year thou mayst in me behold

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How To Analyze a Poem...

Devices of Sound and Diction Rhyme: close similarity or identity of sound between accented syllables occupying corresponding positions. AKA: words that share similar sounds Example: If you do the crime You ll do the time

Rhymes you say? Eye Rhyme: Rhyme that appears correct from spelling, but is half-rhyme or slantrhyme from the pronunciation. Example: watch and match Example: love and move

Internal Rhyme: A rhyme that occurs within a line, rather than at the end Example: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary Rhythm: The recurrence of stressed and unstressed syllables. *heightens emotional response

Assonance: the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds Example: waste, slain, tame a sound Consonance: The repetition of similar consonant sounds in a group of words. *Ending consonants are the same, but vowels are different! Example: bill/ball or born/burn or dog/dug

Onomatopoeia... Definition: The use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning...

Diction... The use of words in literary work. -informal -formal -slang -terms from a specific group -polite conversation

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Types of Poems Blank Verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter. How many syllables are in each line? The Ball Poem by John Berryman What is the boy now, who has lost his ball, What, what is he to do? I saw it go Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then Merrily there it is in the water!

Types of Poems Didactic Poem: A poem teaching a lesson. The Archer Didactic Poem What lesson does this poem teach us?

Dramatic Poem: A poem that employs dramatic form or elements of dramatic technique that achieve poetic ends. Example: Dramatic Monologue Luciana Monologue - Vanessa Bolt Les Miserables - Anne Hathaway

Elegy: A formal poem addressing the poet s meditations upon death or another solemn theme. Mournful, melancholic, a funeral piece Free Verse: A poem written in no traditional meter, rhyme, or pattern. But tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech.

Lyric Poem: Any short poem that has a single speaker expressing thoughts and feelings. Examples: Sonnets and Odes Narrative Poem: A non-dramatic story, it is a narrative and can be long, short, simple or complex. Examples: Epics and Ballads The Broken Legg'd man - Narrative Poem

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