2. POETIC TERMS 1 st Year English

3. Figurative language Youre doing my head in! Literal language You are annoying me

4. The time (both the time of day and period in history) and place in which the action of a literary work takes place.

5. Tiger! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night

6. November Season = winter Night Edinburgh

7. The use of concrete details that appeal to the five senses.

8. Cold, wet leaves floating on moss- colored water.

9. What are the 5 senses?

10. Smell Taste Touch Hearing Sight

11. What image corresponds to each sense in this poem?

12. November Night, Edinburgh The night tinkles like ice in glasses. Leaves are glued to the pavements with frost. The brown air fumes at the shop windows, Tries the door, and sidles past.

13. The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.

14. Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship

16. I gulp down winter raw. The heady Darkness swirls with tenements. In a brown fuzz of cotton wool Lamps fade up crags, die into pits. Frost in my lungs is harsh as leaves Scraped up on paths. I look up, there, A high roof sails, at the mast-head Fluttering a grey and ragged star. The worlds a bear shrugged in his den. Its snug and close in the snoring night. And outside like flowers The fog unfolds its bitter scent. Lungs / leaves Shrugged /snug / snoring

17. The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant.

18. ...that hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

19. I gulp down winter raw. The heady Darkness swirls with tenements. In a brown fuzz of cotton wool Lamps fade up crags, die into pits. Frost in my lungs is harsh as leaves Scraped up on paths. I look up, there, A high roof sails, at the mast-head Fluttering a grey and ragged star. The worlds a bear shrugged in his den. Its snug and close in the snoring night. And outside like Chrysanthemums The fog unfolds its bitter scent. Cotton / Wool Lamps fade

20. A direct comparison between two basically different things. A simile is introduced by the words like or as.

21. My love is like a red, red rose.

22. An implied comparison between two basically different things. Is not introduced with the words like or as.

23. His eyes were daggers that cut right through me.

25. November Night, Edinburgh The night tinkles like ice in glasses. Leaves are glued to the pavements with frost. The brown air fumes at the shop windows, Tries the door, and sidles past.

26. I gulp down winter raw. The heady Darkness swirls with tenements. In a brown fuzz of cotton wool Lamps fade up crags, die into pits. Frost in my lungs is harsh as leaves Scraped up on paths. I look up, there, A high roof sails, at the mast-head Fluttering a grey and ragged star. The worlds a bear shrugged in his den. Its snug and close in the snoring night. And outside like Chrysanthemums The fog unfolds its bitter scent.

27. Human characteristics are given to non-human animals, objects, or ideas.

28. My stereo walked out of my car.

29. November Night, Edinburgh The night tinkles like ice in glasses. Leaves are glued to the pavements with frost. The brown air fumes at the shop windows, Tries the door, and sidles past. The air tries the door The air sidles past The air tries the door The air sidles past

30. thethe form of a poem is the physical arrangement of the words on the page

31. The repetition of consonant sounds that are preceded by different vowel sounds.

32. Wherever we go Silence will fall like dews

33. The use of words whose sounds suggest the sounds made by objects or activities.

34. Blind eyes could blaze like meteors Other examples: buzz, hum, kiss Other examples: buzz, hum, kiss

35. The repetition of identical sounds at the ends of lines of poetry.

36. He clasps the crag with crooked hands Close to the sun in lonely lands from The Eagle

37. The repetition of identical sounds within a line of poetry.

38. We three shall flee across the sea to Italy. Or Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour.

39. Something concrete, such as an object, action, character, or scene that stands for something abstract such as a concept or an idea.

40. Do not go gentle into that good night Rage, Rage against the dying of the light Both phrases are symbols that stand for death. Both phrases are symbols that stand for death.

41. The main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work.

42. Civilization vs. Savagery The central concern of Lord of the Flies is the conflict between two competing impulses that exist within all human beings: the instinct to live by rules, act peacefully, follow moral commands, and value the good of the group against the instinct to gratify ones immediate desires, act violently to obtain supremacy over others, and enforce ones will. This conflict might be expressed in a number of ways: civilization vs. savagery, order vs. chaos, reason vs. impulse, law vs. anarchy, or the broader heading of good vs. evil.

43. The repeating of a sound, word, phrase, or more in a given literary work.

44. I sprang to the stirrup, and Jarvis, and he; I galloped, Derrick galloped, we galloped all three

45. The overall atmosphere or prevailing emotional feeling of a work.

46. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.