1. Poetry

2. -one of three major types of literature: -no single characteristic poetry, prose, drama

3. Poetry OFTEN : * uses highly concise, musical, & emotionally charged language * set rhyme scheme or rhythm * divided into lines or stanzas * uses imagery, figurative language, and sound devices

4. RHYME End Rhyme Internal Rhyme Exact Rhyme Slant Rhyme There once was a boy named Matt; He wore a very large hat. Jack & Jill went up the hill love, dove stuff, enough love, prove hat, cap Blank verse – does not rhyme

5. RHYME SCHEME Regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem or stanza Each different sound is labeled with a letter: Roses are red Violets are blue Sugar is sweet So are you a b c b

6. RHYTHM -flow and movement of words in poem Free verse – no regular rhythm Metrical verse – set pattern

7. METER -rhythmical pattern of a poem -Described in terms of stressed and unstressed syllables Lit Book pg R10

8. Sound Devices - consonance – repeated consonant sounds close together – the mammal named Sam is tame - alliteration —Wanda wishes wewe would win - sibilance – she sells seashells by the seashore

9. Sound Devices - assonance – leap and seem not weak - repetition – to the left, to the left - onomatopoeia – humph; bang

10. Figurative Language - simile – As busy as a bee; He behaved like a dog - metaphor – That boy is a dog - conceit – “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day…” - personification – The sun smiled down on me.

11. Figurative Language - oxymoron – pretty ugly; jumbo shrimp - antithesis – “give me action, not words” - synecdoche – “the world treated him badly” OR “twenty sails came into the harbor”

12. Figurative Language - hyperbole – I’ve told you a million times… - paradox – “I dwell in a lonely house I know;That vanished many a summer ago” (Frost) -idiom – he’s pulling your leg

13. Figurative Language - imagery – the rippling tide lapped against the grainy shore - symbolism –owl for wisdom, dove for peace, rose for love - irony – bald man wins a free haircut

14. Graphic/Form Elements -line length/breaks/indents (ex. double barreled lines) -capitals -punctuation -word position -italics -stanza

15. STYLE the way something is written, as distinguished from content VOICE distinctive qualities of a writer’s style – including diction, attitude, sentence style, and ideas

16. TONE Writer’s attitude toward readers and subject MOOD Feeling created in reader by literary work or passage DICTION Writer’s choice and order of words