1. Figurative language and Poetry terms

2. Alliteration The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. EX: While I nodded, nearly, napping, suddenly there came a tapping.

3. Assonance The repetition of vowel sounds within words. EX: On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before. Easier: While I nodded, nearly, napping, suddenly there came a tapping.

4. End Rhyme Similar or identical sounds at the end of two lines of poetry. EX: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore! Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”

5. Internal Rhyme Rhyme within ONE line of poetry EX: Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before.

6. Repetition Words repeated within a line of poetry. EX: From my books surcease of sorrow— sorrow for the lost Lenore.

7. Form The way words are arranged in lines, the way lines are arranged in stanzas, and the way units of sound are organized in rhythm and rhyme. Two kinds of form: Fixed and Irregular.

8. Fixed Form Follows fixed (unchanging) rules. – Limited number of lines – Fixed meter – Fixed rhyme scheme – Definite structure Examples: Sonnet, ballad, epic, elegy, ode, blank verse

9. Irregular form or free verse No rules- takes whatever shape it wants.

10. Anaphora The same word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of two or more lines. EX: Or I guess the grass is itself a child Or I guess it is a uniform hieroglyphic