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Poetry
The art of expressing one’s thoughts in verse.
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Theme
The overall main point/message the author is trying to make about life or human nature.
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Onomatopoeia
Words whose sounds suggest their meaning—they sound like what they are!
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Symbol
A concrete object that is used to represent an
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Does your line include a figure of speech that compares two unlike items using like or as?
Write a line of verse with a simile.
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Iamb
A foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Each foot contains two syllables.
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Rhyme Scheme
Patterns of end rhymes. (ABAB, AABB, AABBCC, etc.)
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Simile
A figure of speech that compares two unlike items using like or as.
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b a b
What is the rhyme scheme for the following:
I eat my peas with honey I've done it all my life It makes my peas taste funny but it keeps them on my knife |
Does your line include the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words?
Write a line of verse using alliteration.
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Metaphor
A figure of speech in which one item is said to be another in comparison. The two items are often unlike each other in reality.
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Free Verse
Lines that are not measured or counted. An open form of poetry. Does not follow a rhyme scheme. When spoken aloud, it can sound like prose.
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Tone
The general quality, effect, or attitude an author has toward the subject of the literature.
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D. Personification and alliteration
Which poetry techniques do you see in the following:
The clock looks and laughs at me as I sit in class. A. Personification and simile B. Alliteration and metaphor C. Imagery and rhyme scheme D. Personification and alliteration |
Does your line give human qualities or character traits to non-human subjects or objects?
Write a line of verse using personification.
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Prose
The ordinary language people speak and write.
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Personification
Giving human qualities or character traits to non-human subjects or objects.
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Imagery
Descriptive and concrete phrases that appeal to the senses: sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste; the phrase creates a picture in the mind.
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A. Imagery and simile
Which poetry techniques do you see in the following:
They stood like so many stakes driven into the ground. A. Imagery and simile B. Simile and personification C. Imagery and onomatopoeia D. Alliteration and metaphor |
Does your line have a descriptive and concrete phrase that appeals to the sense: sight (the phrase creates a picture in the mind)?
Write a line of verse using imagery of sight.
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Rhyme
Same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words.
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Meter
The rhythmic measure of a line of verse. Meter is measured by a “foot,” which is a set of syllables, stressed and unstressed. These make the beat of the poem.
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Alliteration
Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.
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C. Metaphor and alliteration
Which poetry techniques do you see in the following:
Rage, a shaken soda, waiting to explode. A. Personification and simile B. Imagery and simile C. Metaphor and alliteration D. Metaphor and onomatopoeia |
Does your line have a descriptive and concrete phrase that appeals to the sense: smell (the phrase creates a picture in the mind)?
Write a line of verse using imagery of smell.
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