1. Unit 1 Vocabulary
Literary Language

2. Figurative Language and Sound Devices
Diction
Rhythm / Rhyme
Alliteration
Stanza / Line
Assonance / Consonance
Inference
Types of Poetry:
Onomatopoeia
Limerick
Personification
Narrative
Imagery
Free Verse
Simile / Metaphor
Sonnet
Symbolism
Tone / Mood
Irony
Speaker

3. Diction DEFENITION Style of speaking or writing as dependent
upon choice of words: good diction.
EXAMPLE
You got a purty face.
Your beauty will haunt my dreams.

4. Alliteration DEFINITION Use of the same consonant at the
beginning of each
stressed syllable in a line
of verse.
EXAMPLE
Susan sells seashells by the sea shore.
Tongue twisters

5. Forms of Alliteration Assonance Consonance
The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words.
How now brown cow.
The repetition of consonants (or consonant patterns) especially at the ends of words.
A stoke of luck for just a buck.

6. Buzz ZooM BOOM ZIP Using words that imitate the sound they denote.
Onomatopoeia
Buzz
Using words that imitate the sound they denote.
ZooM
ZIP
BOOM

7. Personification
Disney cartoons: Beauty and the Beast, Toy Story, Shrek. Talking Dogs Dancing Frogs
The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc..

8. IMAGERY Imagery is the use of vivid description, usually
rich in sensory words, to create pictures, or
images, in the reader's mind.
Examples
He could hear the footsteps of doom nearing.
The taste of sweet strawberries danced on my tongue.
The flash was a blinding array of colors.

9. Comparison Simile Metaphor A comparison of two
unlike things by use of like
or as.
Example
My love for you is like an
ocean.
He fights like a lion when
in battle.
A direct comparison of two unlike things.
Example
My love for you is an
ocean.
He is a lion in battle.

10. Symbolism The practice of representing things by
symbols, or of investing
things with a symbolic
meaning or character.

11. What emotion is the author
Tone
MOOD
A prevailing
atmosphere or feeling .
The general feeling of the
poem.
The quality of
something (an act or a
piece of writing) that
reveals the attitudes and
presuppositions of the
author.
Writer’s attitude.
What emotion is the author
trying to convey?

12. Irony
The humorous or mildly sarcastic use of words to imply the opposite of what they normally mean .
An outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.
Example
Alanis Morissette song: Ironic
A traffic jam when you're already late
A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
It's meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his
beautiful wife

13. Self explanatory words
Inference:
Speaker- Voice of the written work. (NOT the author)
Rhythm- The beat of the written work
Rhyme-Words that sound the same
Stanza- Paragraph in a poem. Verse.
Line- sentence in a stanza.
To draw conclusions.
To make an educated guess.
I can infer they like each other.

14. SOME Types of Poetry Limerick Narrative
A humorous verse form
of 5 anapestic lines with a
rhyme scheme aabba.
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were caught, so what could
they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee."
"Let us fly," said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw
in the flue.
Type of poetry that tells a story.
Epic Poems
The Iliad, The Odyssey

15. Sonnet Free Verse Unrhymed verse without a consistent
A verse form consisting
of 14 lines with a fixed
rhyme scheme.
Example
MY mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun   Coral is far more red than her lips’ red:   If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;   If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.   I have seen roses damask’d, red and white,          5
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;   And in some perfumes is there more delight   Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.   I love to hear her speak, yet well I know   That music hath a far more pleasing sound:   10
I grant I never saw a goddess go,—   My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:     And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare     As any she belied with false compare.
Free Verse
Unrhymed verse
without a consistent
metrical pattern.
No real rules.