 Poetry is made up of lines and stanzas. A stanza is a group of lines.  Ex: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood LINE And Sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth STANZA

A unit of sound, usually at stress breaks

 The mood of the poem, a writer’s attitude towards his or her subject  Words that describe tone are often words that describe emotion, so when you want to describe the tone of a poem, think of what the poet wants to make the reader feel

 Non-human subject is given human characteristics  EX: “ The wind whispered”  “ The earth wept”  “ The tree laughed”  “ The dog empathized with the squirrel”

 A word that imitates its sound  Hiss  Buzz  Bang

 Two Words that sound alike  Ex: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And Sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth

 The pattern of the rhyme  Ex: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood A And Sorry I could not travel both B And be one traveler long I stood A And looked down one as far as I could A To where it bent in the undergrowth B The Rhyme Scheme for this stanza is ABAAB

 When a poem’s lines run over from one to another i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) - e.e. cummings

 Writing in descriptive details using any of the five senses: sight, sound, taste, touch, smell.  The soft, green grass felt like cotton on my feet. The air smelled like summer, and the sun shone brightly.

 Rhythm is the pattern of the beat of the stresses in a stream of sound  Use clapping to find the rhythm of the poem  This is also used a lot in music

 Poetry written without regular pattern or meter  Ex: “ I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong, The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work, The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck,…” - Walt Whitman

 Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of the word  EX: Tom took the train to town Sally sells seashells by the seashore

 Repetition of the same vowel sound in a nearby word  “ Tiger, tiger burning bright” – William Blake  “ The cat in the hat”- Dr. Seuss  “ I will not eat them in a train, I will not eat them on a plane, I will not eat them in a box, I will not eat them with a fox, I will not eat green eggs and ham, I will not eat them Sam I Am!” – Dr. Seuss

 A brief reference to something in history or literature  Where are these allusions from?  “Turn the other cheek”  “ Flying too close to the sun”  “Your Achilles heel”

 Pronounced Hi-per’-bo-lee  A complete exaggeration to make a point  “I waited an hour for her to text back”  “My sister gets a hundred things for Christmas”

 A physical structure which represents something larger  The Osage Orange Tree  The Singing Tree in Walk..  The Hurricane in True Confessions…