1. THE WORLD OF POETRY Poetic Terms to know & understand POETRY: is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response.

2. Types of Poetry http://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/ We will focus on: Lyric, Sonnets, Free Verse, Name, Couplet and Rhymes

3. Pens ready! ALLITERATION: The repetition of the initial sounds (usually consonants) of stressed syllables in neighboring words CONSONANCE: The close repetition of the same end consonants of stressed syllables with differing vowel sounds, Ex: such as boat and night, or the words drunk and milk ASSONANCE: The relatively close juxtaposition of the same or similar vowel sounds, but with different end consonants in a line or passage, thus a vowel rhyme, Ex. As in the words, date and fade.

4. RHYMING…Depends on the TIMING… REPETITION: When a word or phrase is used over and over again for a significant purpose; to instill an idea into the memory of the audience INTERNAL RHYME: Rhyming that occurs inside a line of poetry END RHYME: Rhyming that occurs at the end of the line

5. EVEN MORE TERMS ONOMATOPOEIA: The formation or use of words which imitate sounds (Buzz, bang) FREE VERSE: A type of poem that has no set pattern or rhyme scheme METAPHOR: Comparison of 2 unlike things by stating one is the other

6. STRETCH YOUR FINGERS PERSONIFICATION Giving non-human objects/things human characteristics Ex: The trees danced in the wind. Ex: Cartoons SIMILE Comparison of 2 unlike things using like, than, or as Ex: SYMBOLISM When an object, person, idea has meaning beyond its literal value (represents something else)

7. MORE AND MORE TERMS HYPERBOLE: An extreme exaggeration ALLUSION: reference to a person, place or thing in history or time IMAGERY: Using words to create an image in the reader’s mind

8. Getting closer to the finale TONE The author’s attitude towards the subject STANZA: A division of a poem made by arranging the lines into units separated by a space, usually of a corresponding number of lines and a recurrent pattern of meter and rhyme.meterrhyme

9. TERMS! TERMS! TERMS! FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Language that is not literal in meaning. Used often to make comparisons or create mental pictures. There are FIVE literary devices that make up figurative language: Metaphor Simile Personification Onomatopoeia Hyperbole

10. ALMOST DONE SPEAKER/VOICE: The speaker or voice in the poem AUTHOR: The writer of the poem AUDIENCE: The intended readers/viewers of the poem MOOD: The feelings the reader has while/after reading the story

11. YOU MADE IT THROUGH! DENOTATION: The dictionary definition of a word CONNOTATION: The implied meaning of a word (EX-home= love/comfort) COUPLET: A pair of rhyming lines