Parts of a Poem

1. Parts of a Poem

2. Figurative Language • Personification • Oxymoron • Hyperbole • Simile • Metaphor • Extended Metaphor

3. Personification • Personification is giving human qualities to animals or objects • Example:a smiling moon, a jovial sun

4. Oxymoron • Oxymoron is putting two contradictory words together Ex:hot ice, cold fire, wise fool, sad joy, military intelligence, eloquent silence

5. Hyperbole • Hyperbole is exaggeration or overstatement Example:I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.He's as big as a house.

6. Simile • Simile is the comparison of two unlike things using like or as Example:He eats like a pig. Vines like golden prisons.

7. Metaphor • Metaphor comparison of two unlike things using the verb "to be“. Example:He is a pig. Thou art sunshine

8. Extended Metaphor • An extended metaphor is one where there is a single main subject to which additional subjects and metaphors are applied. Example: He is the pointing gun, we are the bullets of his desire. All the world's a stage and men and women merely players

9. Sound Devices/ Rhetorical Devices • Repetition • Assonance • Alliteration • Consonance • Onomatopoeia

10. Repetition • Repetition of a sound, syllable, word, phrase, line, stanza, or metrical pattern is a basic unifying device in all poetry. Rain The rain is falling all aroundIt falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here,And on the ships at sea.

11. Assonance • Assonanceis the repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds as in consonance Example:fleet feet sweep by sleeping geeks

12. Consonance • Consonance is the repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, as in assonance Example:lady lounges lazily , dark deep dread crept in

13. Alliteration • The repetition of sound at the beginning of words Example: Sally sells seashells by the seashore

14. Onomatopoeia • Onomatopoeiais a word that imitates the sound it represents. also imitative harmony Example:splash, gush, kerplunk

15. Prose- ordinary speech or writing; • Poetry- everything else