Literary Terms/ Figurative Language

1. Literary Terms/ Figurative Language • Alliteration – • the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words. • Ex: To make a man to meet the mortal need A man to match the mountains • Assonance • the repetition of vowelsounds but not consonant sounds • Ex: The fleet sweep by the sleeping geese

2. Literary Terms/ Figurative Language • Chiasmus • type of rhetoric in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first. • "There's a bridge to cross the great divide. . . . • There's a cross to bridge the great divide. . . ." • Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike. • Imagery • language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching.

3. Literary Terms/ Figurative Language • Metaphor • comparison of two unlike things using the verb "to be" and not using like or as in a simile. • Example:He is a pig. Thou art sunshine. • Simile A comparison using like or as Her smile is like the sun

4. Types of Rhyme • Internal Rhyme • rhyming within a line. • Example:I awoke to black flak. • Rhyme Scheme • rhymed words at the ends of lines. • Example:Roses are red AViolents are blue BSugar is sweet CAnd so are you. B

5. Rhyme Scheme Sonnet #12 Explained O C T A V E A B A B C D C D E F E F G G When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls, all silvered o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green all girded up in sheaves, Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard, Then of thy beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of time must go, Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake And die as fast as they see others grow; And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence. S E S T E T Couplet