1. Descriptive Writing Poetry Terms 1 st Period

2. Alliteration

3. Simile A comparison between two or more seemingly unlike things using “like” or “as” for the purpose of adding insight/description. (Note: You must be aware of the physical, emotional, intellectual, and social implications of your comparisons.) – Example 1: The cat’s teeth were as sharp as daggers.

4. Metaphor Metaphor: A comparison between two or more seemingly unlike things without using “like” or “as”. Metaphors tend to be more lengthy and complicated. – Example 1: He is the workhorse of the team. He was a lion on the football field. – Example 2: The pillow was a rock.

5. SYMBOLISM the use of color or symbols to represent ideas, feelings, etc. – Example: The American flag symbolizes freedom. A dove symbolizes peace.

6. Hyperbole gross exaggeration used in literary work. – Example: The weight of the world is on his shoulders.

7. Allusion a reference in a work to another work, piece of literature, work of art, song, person, or historical situation for the purpose of drawing connections &/or increasing understanding. – Example: Their relationship was like Romeo and Juliet.

8. Enjambment an unnatural break in thought between two lines of poetry. – Example: I think that I shall never see a poem as lovely as a tree. I am to gong to the game.

9. Personification giving non-living things human attributes. Example: My pencil is running overtime.

10. Onomatopoeia a word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. – Example: Onomatopoeias include animal noises, such as “oink” or “meow”.

11. Imagery when you use show don’t tell, word choice, and the five senses to create a mental picture. – Example: “ A host of golden daffodils;/ Beside the lake, beneath the trees, /Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”

12. Couplet a couplet has rhyming stanzas each made up of two lines. Shakespearean sonnets usually end in a couplet. – Example: “If turkeys gobble, Do Pilgrims squabble?”

13. Quatrain Quatrain: A stanza or poem of four lines. – Lines 2 and 4 must rhyme. – Lines 1 and 3 may or may not rhyme. – Example: “Look Before You Leap” from Auden The sense of danger must not disappear: The way is certainly both short and steep, However gradual it looks from here; Look if you like, but you will have to leap.

14. Refrain Refrain: a phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem, usually after every stanza. – Very common in music lyrics.

15. STANZA Stanza: two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem. Example: Think of stanzas like paragraphs. – 2 lines = CoupletCouplet – 3 lines = TercetTercet – 4 lines = QuatrainQuatrain – 5 lines = CinquainCinquain – 6 lines = SestetSestet – 7 lines = Septet – 8 lines = Octave

16. Literary Devices Symbolism Imagery Metaphors Similes Rhyme Schem Allusions Personification Hyperbole Idioms End Rhymes Internal Rhymes Alliteration Assonance Consonance Mood Punctuation Onomatopoeia Puns

17. HAIKU 3 lines 5-7-5 Syllabic scheme Nature themed Use of Imagery to “paint” a picture in the reader’s mind. Uses simple words and grammar. Example: The Rose The red blossom bends And drips its dew to the ground Like a tear it falls By Donna Brock

18. Another Example & Your Turn Example #2: The Rainbow Curving up, then down Meeting blue sky and green earth Melding sun and rain Try to write three haikus (one with a different theme each). Try these themes: – Sports – Outdoors – Hobby – Winter – Summer – Animals

19. Limericks A five line poem written with one couplet and one triplet. Rhyme scheme is aabba Lines 1, 2, & 5 have 3 beats. Lines 3 & 4 have two beats. They are humorous (Last line is the Punchline). They often contain hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms, puns, and other figurative devices.

20. Example of Limerick 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. - Anonymous

21. Your Turn TRY Completing this: There once was a pauper named Meg Who accidentally broke her______. She slipped on the ______. Not once, but thrice Take no pity on her, I __________. * HINT w/Beat: Practice the rhythm of limericks by clapping you hands or snapping your fingers. Think of some funny names, places, or situations. 1.) Using the a a b b a 5-line form, write an original limerick. 2.) How would you illustrate the page if your poem was published in a book of limericks? 3.)What types of art would you use?