Figurative Language Techniques Spring 2007 Unit 2: Poetry College English

Words are the Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. Rita Dove Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. Paul Engle

What to do with these slide/notes 1.Find the definition of each poetry term. Suggested: lossary1.html lossary1.html 2.List an applicable example for each definition. 3.If your example is original (that is, out of your own mind), star it! **

Metaphor DEFINITION EXAMPLE

Simile DEFINITION EXAMPLE

Alliteration DEFINITION EXAMPLE

Assonance DEFINITION EXAMPLE

Consonance DEFINITION EXAMPLE

Enjambment DEFINITION EXAMPLE (written as two lines of poetry)

Caesura DEFINITIONEXAMPLE

Hyperbole DEFINITION EXAMPLE

Apostrophe DEFINITIONEXAMPLE

Onomatopoeia DEFINITION THREE EXAMPLES:

Personification DEFINITION EXAMPLE

C’est Fini! Now, read “Recovery” by Kevin Woster. Identify his poetic techniques.