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Explore the depths of human emotion through the art of metaphorical expression in this collection of evocative poems. Immerse yourself in a world where words dance to unveil hidden truths and emotions, inviting you to see beyond their literal meanings. Each poem is a tapestry woven with vivid imagery, personification, and symbolic representations that stir the heart and provoke contemplation. Let the beauty of figurative language guide you through a maze of emotions and experiences, connecting you to the essence of the poet's soul.
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POETRY Figurative Language Vocabulary
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE • FORM OF LANGUAGE USE IN WHICH WRITERS AND SPEAKERS MEAN SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE LITERAL MEANING OF THEIR WORDS
Types • Metaphor • Personification • Simile • Symbol • Hyperbole: AN EXAGGERATION OF THE TRUTH • Denotation: DICTIONARY MEANING OF A WORD • Connotation: THE PERSONAL OR EMOTIONAL ASSOCIATIONS CALLED UP BY A WORD THAT GOES BEYOND ITS DICTIONARY MEANING
Metaphor • COMPARES TWO UNLIKE THINGS • Example: You are a beautiful flower. • Non-Example: You are as beautiful as a flower.
PERSONIFICATION • GIVING HUMAN QUALITIES TO A NON-HUMAN OBJECT. • Example: The tree danced in the wind. • Non-Example: The singer danced on stage.
SIMILE • COMPARES TWO UNLIKE THINGS USING LIKE OR AS. • Example: The trash smells like the sewer!
SYMBOL • ANYTHING THAT REPRESENTS SOMETHING ELSE. • Example: A dove is a common symbol for peace.
HYPERBOLE • AN EXAGGERATION OF THE TRUTH • Example: It is raining cats and dogs!
DENOTATION • DICTIONARY MEANING OF A WORD • Example: A juvenile refers to a person who is no longer a child, but is not old enough to be considered an adult.
CONNOTATION • THE PERSONAL OR EMOTIONAL ASSOCIATIONS CALLED UP BY A WORD THAT GOES BEYOND ITS DICTIONARY MEANING • Example: juvenile, kid
Poetry Sound Devices Vocabulary
ALLITERATION • THE REPETITION OF CONSONANT SOUNDS, ESPECIALLY AT THE BEGINNING OF WORDS • Example: Sally sold seashells at the seashore. • Non-example: Chimmy caught the fly.
ONOMATOPOEIA • WORDS THAT REPRESENT A SOUND. • Example: SNAP, CRACK, POP
ASSONANCE • THE REPETITION OF SIMILAR VOWEL SOUNDS IN A SENTENCE OR LINE OF POETRY (these words do not have to rhyme with one another) • Example: Fleet, feet, sweep
CONSONANCE • THE REPETITION OF SIMILAR CONSONANT SOUNDS AT THE ENDS OF ACCENTED SYLLABLES. • Example: WIND; SAND
REPETITION • A SOUND, WORD, CLAUSE, PHRASE, OR SENTENCE THAT IS STATED MORE THAN ONCE. • Example: The clock sounded at noon, ding, ding, ding.
METER • SYLLABLES IN A LINE OF POETRY THAT CREATES A BEAT. • Uses stressed and unstressed syllables to create the beat. • Example: “Half / in dreams / he saw / his sire “
RHYTHM • THE BEAT OF A LINE OF POETRY WHICH CREATES A RHYTHM THROUGHOUT THE POEM. • Example: “It was many and many a year ago.”
RHYME • WHAT IS RHYME? • Repetition of sounds at the end of the word. • Example: Cat, hat, fat, mat
Forms of Poetry Vocabulary
FORM • THE ARRANGEMENT, MANNER OR METHOD USED TO CONVEY THE CONTENT OF THE POEM • Example: LIMERICK, FREE VERSE, HAIKU, NARRATIVE POEM…
Narrative Poem • Tells a story • The poem may seem like a short story containing a plot and characters • Ex: The Creation of Sam McGee • 563
Haiku • A three line Japanese poem • The first and third lines have five syllables and the second line has seven. • Pg. 523, 529
Free Verse • Lack of strict structure • It has no meter, rhyme, fixed length or specific stanzas • Example: In Just (622)
Lyric Poetry • This poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker • The is read in musical verse. • Example: The Rider (521); Winter (527)
Ballads • Songlike poems that tell a story, often dealing with adventure and romance. • Example: Annabel Lee (p. 598)
Concrete Poem • Poem shaped to look like their subjects. • The poet uses the lines of poetry to create a picture on the page. • Example: Seal (522); Forsynthia (528)
Limerick • A humorous, rhyming, five-line poem with a specific rhythm and rhyme scheme. • See ppt.
Rhyming Couplets • Pairs of rhyming lines, usually of the same meter and length.
Rhyming Couplets Example: “Alone” BY EDGAR ALLAN POE From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common spring— From the same source I have not taken My sorrow—I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone— And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone— Then—in my childhood—in the dawn Of a most stormy life—was drawn From ev’ry depth of good and ill The mystery which binds me still— From the torrent, or the fountain— From the red cliff of the mountain— From the sun that ’round me roll’d In its autumn tint of gold— From the lightning in the sky As it pass’d me flying by— From the thunder, and the storm— And the cloud that took the form (When the rest of Heaven was blue) Of a demon in my view—