2. POETRY TERMS

3. Figure of speech  compares one thing to something entirely different-It’s never literally true!  Ex: It’s raining cats and dogs.

4. Simile  figure of speech which compares two unlike things using like or as  Example:The horse ran as fast as the wind.

5. Metaphor  comparing two unlike things without using like or as  Example: He is a beast on the football field.

6. Personification  giving human qualities to a non-human thing  Example: The Lion King or The wind whispered.

7. Alliteration  repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words  Ex:Sally sells seashells at the seashore!

8. Onomatopoeia  When a word sounds like what it represents  Example:The bee buzzed.

9. Tone  the attitude of the writer or the speaker towards the subject of the poem or toward the audience.

10. Free form poetry  Where a poem does not have a required form [This shrubby bush preparing itself to blossom re- sem- bles you]

11. Imagery  using the five senses to evoke a strong picture  Example: I left my body laying somewhere In the sands of time. body layingsands of timebody layingsands of time

12. Lyric poem  A poem that expresses an emotion or tells how the author feels about life.  Neyo’s “Beautiful Monster” is a lyric poem because it tells how he feels about his girl.

13. Iambic Pentameter  This is a particular meter in poetry. meterpoetrymeterpoetry  It refers to a line consisting of five iambic feet. iambic feetiambic feet  Below is a line of iambic pentameter Ay, Pil grim Lips that they must use in prayer

14. Fixed form poetry  -a type of poem or poetry that has a required form  (For example:it has a required amount of lines or syllables or rhyme scheme or all of the above)  Example: A haiku poem  5 syllables in the first line,  7syllables in the 2 nd line,  5 syllables in the last line

15. Speaker  the voice that talks directly to us in a poem. The speaker is not always the author.

16. Symbol  something that stands for or represents something else.  Example: A heart is a symbol for love.

17. Hyperbole  An overstatement or exaggeration  Example:Her heart was as big as a house! (p.s. also a simile)

18. Rhyme Scheme  the pattern of rhyme used in a poem rhyme  Example:(Shakespearean sonnets have an abab cdcd efef gg rhyme scheme)  The last word of lines 1 and 3 will rhyme.  The last word of lines 2 and 4 will rhyme.

19. Slant Rhyme  rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical EXAMPLE: I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –/ The Stillness in the Room/ Was like the Stillness in the Air – / Between the Heaves of Storm – Room and Storm are slant rhymes.

20. Narrative poem  A poem that tells a story  Eminem’s song “Stan” is a narrative poem because it tells a story.

21. Internal Rhyme  rhyme that occurs within the lines or repetition of an end rhyme within a line Example: I love the doves that float from above