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Poetry Terms

Poetry Terms. A dictionary. Alliteration. Words close to each other begin with the same letter Ex: f ull f athom f ive thy f ather f lies My example: Source:. Assonance . Where words close to each other have the same vowel sounds in them

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Poetry Terms

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  1. Poetry Terms A dictionary

  2. Alliteration • Words close to each other begin with the same letter • Ex: full fathom five thy father flies • My example: • Source:

  3. Assonance • Where words close to each other have the same vowel sounds in them • Ex: “with dying light the silent fall of night” • My example: • Source:

  4. Colloquial language • The language people use in everyday speech. • Sometimes called slang. • Ex: bloke, dissing, buff, • My example: • Source:

  5. Couplet • A pair of ryming lines in a poem. Sometimes called a rhyming couplet. • Ex: “So long as men can breath or eyes can see So long lives this, and gives life to thee.” • My example: • Source:

  6. Iamb • A metrical foot of two syllables, one short (unstressed) & one long (stressed) Sounds like a tic tock • Ex: “to be or not to be” • My example: • Source:

  7. Imagery • Mental pictures which help the reader or listenr imagine something clearly • Metaphor, simile, and personification are types of imagery • Ex “the merciless iced east winds that knive us” • My example: • Source:

  8. Metaphor • Describing something by saying it is something else • Ex: The sea was a monster chewing at the beach. Ms. Skaggs is an ogre. • My example: • Source:

  9. Meter • An arrangement of words in which the accents occur at equal, rhythmic intervals of time. • Ex “Hickory dickorydock” • My example: • Source:

  10. Onomatopoeia • A word which sounds like what it describes • Ex: whisper, snip, bang, squelch • My example: • Source:

  11. Personification • When something that is NOT alive is given living qualities. • Ex: “The wind snatched my hat from my head.” • My example: • Source:

  12. Refrain • A phrase or verse recurring at intervals in a poem or song. • Ex: If I was your boyfriend, never let you goKeep you on my arm girl you'd never be aloneI can be a gentleman, anything you wantIf I was your boyfriend, I'd never let you go, never let you go • My example: • Source:

  13. Rhyme • Endings of lines that sound the same. Ex: Little Miss Muffett Sat on her tuffet • My example: • Source:

  14. More Types of Rhyme • True rhyme – what you normally thing of as rhyme. Cat, hat, fat, sat • Weak rhyme – sometimes called partial rhymes. Words don’t sound exactly alike but close. Notion, nation. Bear, bore. Ear, are • Eye rhyme – the words LOOK the same, but sound different Bear, ear. Slaughter, laughter

  15. Rhythm • A pattern of beats or sounds. • Ex: “There once was a lady named SueWho had nothing whatever to do” • My example: • Source:

  16. Similie • A comparison using like or as • Ex” “The cat’s fur was like silk” “She’s as mean as a snake.” • My example: • Source:

  17. Stanzas • The verse of a poem, usually separated from one another by a blank line

  18. Tone • What message is the poet getting across? Anger, sadness, joyful, spooky?

  19. Hard Frost Frost called to water “Halt!” And crusted the moist snow with sparkling salt; Brooks, their own bridges, stop, And icicles in long stalactites drop, And tench in water-holes Lurk under gluey glass like fish in bowls. In the hard-rutted lane At every footstep breaks a brittle pane, And tinkling trees ice-bound, Changed into weeping willows, sweep the ground; Dead boughs take root in ponds And ferns on windows shoot their ghostly fronds. But vainly the fierce frost Interns poor fish, ranks trees in an armed host, Hangs daggers from house-eaves: In the long war grown warmer The sun will strike him dead and strip his armour. Andrew Young (1885-1971) Personification Rhyming Couplet Simile Stanzas Assonance Alliteration Metaphor Half Rhyme

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