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Poetry Literary Terms

Poetry Literary Terms. Alliteration Refers to repetition of a particular sound in the first syllables of a series of words and/or phrases. When to the s essions of s weet s ilent thought. Poetry Literary Terms. Assonance

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Poetry Literary Terms

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  1. PoetryLiterary Terms • Alliteration • Refers to repetition of a particularsoundin the first syllables of a series of words and/or phrases. • When to the sessions of sweet silent thought

  2. PoetryLiterary Terms • Assonance • The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in neighboring words that create internal rhyming. • That solitude which suits abstruser musings (“u”)

  3. PoetryLiterary Terms • Rhyme Scheme • The pattern of rhymes used in a poem, usually marked by letters to symbolize correspondences, as rhyme royal. • There once was a big brown cat      a That liked to eat a lot of mice.         b He got all round and fat                  Because they tasted so nice.            Now lying on his mat, All he does is sleep.

  4. PoetryLiterary Terms • Imagery • The use of vivid sensory description to create a mental picture • A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way

  5. PoetryLiterary Terms • Personification • Giving life to inanimate objects or makes animals human • Death stands above me whispering low

  6. PoetryLiterary Terms • Simile • A comparison between two things using the words “like” or “as” • What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?

  7. PoetryLiterary Terms • Metaphor • An implied comparison between two things • My heart is a piece of paper and it crumples Believe me, when I say high school is a jungle

  8. PoetryLiterary Terms • Hyperbole • An extreme exaggeration • I'll love you, dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet, And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street.

  9. PoetryLiterary Terms • Onomatopoeia • When a word sounds like what it represents • Thistles spike the summer airAnd crackle open under a blue-black pressure.

  10. PoetryLiterary Terms • Oxymoron • A pair of contradictory terms • Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!

  11. PoetryLiterary Terms • Symbol • Using an object or word to represent an abstract idea. • All the world’s a stage,And all the men and women merely players;they have their exits and their entrances;And one man in his time plays many parts, • The above lines are symbolic of the fact that men and women, in course of their life perform different roles. “A stage” here symbolizes the world and “players” is a symbol stand here human beings.

  12. PoetryLiterary Terms • Tone • An expression of an author’s attitude toward a subject and contributes to the mood.

  13. PoetryLiterary Terms • Mood • What the reader feels from the author’s words and tone

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