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Poetry Terms

Poetry Terms. Notes and examples. Verse. A line of or lines of poetry Late for Class I realized it was half past four When I, quite late, ran out the door. My history class I so abhor, But I missed two sessions the week before. I failed a test on ancient lore

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Poetry Terms

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  1. Poetry Terms Notes and examples

  2. Verse • A line of or lines of poetry Late for Class I realized it was half past four When I, quite late, ran out the door. My history class I so abhor, But I missed two sessions the week before. I failed a test on ancient lore And forgot the date of the Second World War. (Man, my brain was really sore.) Up the marble stairs I tore, And slid across a just-mopped floor: I banged my knee and loudly swore, To wake -again- at half past four! These nightmares I can stand no more...

  3. Stanza • A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit • This Is Just To Say By William Carlos Williams I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold

  4. Line • A single line of words in a poem • Dancing Dolphins By Paul McCann Those tidal thoroughbreds that tango through the turquoise tide. Their taut tails thrashing they twist in tribute to the titans. They twirl through the trek tumbling towards the tide . Throwing themselves towards those theatrical thespians.

  5. Rhyme • Poem or verse with corresponding sounds, especially at the end of lines Little Miss Muffet, sat on her tuffet, eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider, that sat down beside her, and frightened Miss Muffet away.

  6. Free Verse • Poem with no particular rhyme scheme • Song of Myself (excerpt) Walt Whitman I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cease not till death.

  7. Figurative Language A comparison or exaggeration used to make a point. Not meant to be taken literally. • COMPARISON: • She was as slow as a snail. • Tony was a cheetah on the track. • EXAGGERATION: • "It's raining cats and dogs" means it's raining intensely. • "I'll give you a piece of my mind" means the speaker will state a frank opinion.

  8. Simile Uses like or as to make a comparison • He flew like a dove • Her eyes sparkle like a crystal • Her hair is like a sea

  9. Metaphor Makes a comparison without using like or as • He has a hyena’s laugh. • Her eyes were endless pools of beauty.

  10. Imagery Mental pictures or images. • Often a simile or metaphor. • Allows the reader to envision what has been written • Sensory imagery – using the five senses to help envision Fall The chilly weather settles into your bones.Those once green leaves turnRed, yellow, orange, and brown.CRRNCH! go the leaves,,Beneath  your feet.The birds fly in a victory “V” formation,To where the sun rules the skies.The days of winter are lurking aroundWaiting to be free falling.

  11. Alliteration • Repeating consonant sounds at the beginning of words Excerpt from “The Raven” Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearlynapping, suddenly there came a tapping,As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door." 'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door;Only this, and nothing more."

  12. Personification • Giving human qualities to inhuman objects The Cat & The Fiddle by Mother Goose Hey diddle, Diddle,The cat and the fiddle,The cow jumped over the moon;The little dog laughed To see such sport,And the dish ran away with the spoon.

  13. Onomatopoeia • Use of words with sounds that imitate their meaning • Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot! Had they heard it? The horse-hoofs ringing clear; Tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot, in the distance? Were they deaf that they did not hear?
 (Alfred Noyes, "The Highwayman”)

  14. Symbol Something representing something else And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I marked the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to wayI doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference. The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,

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