1. Poetry
Terms

2. Poetry
a type of literature in which ideas and feelings are expressed in compact, imaginative, and often musical language. Written in lines, which may contain patterns of rhyme and rhythm and are grouped into stanzas

3. Figurative Language
presents ordinary things in fresh ways, communicating ideas that go beyond words’ ordinary meanings

4. Example: “strong as steel”
Simile
a comparison between two things that share a similar characteristic that contains the words like or as
Example: “strong as steel”

5. Metaphor
a comparison between two things that share a similar characteristic that do not contain the words like or as
Example: “My father is a tall, sturdy, oak”

6. giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
Personification
giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea
Example: “the breeze caressed her cheek.”

7. Hyperbole
a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or for humorous effect

8. Idiom
A phrase or expression which means something different from what the words actually say

9. Sound Devices
a technique used by poets to make their writing sound more musical and pleasant to the reader

10. the likeness of sounds at the ends of words
Rhyme
the likeness of sounds at the ends of words

11. End Rhyme the use of rhyming words at the end of lines
Example: “The baby bat cried out in fright; Turn on the dark, I’m afraid of the light!” (Shel Silverstein)

12. the use of rhyming words within a line of poetry
Internal Rhyme
the use of rhyming words within a line of poetry
Example: “Jack Sprat could eat no fat His wife could eat no lean And so betwixt the two of them They licked the platter clean”

13. the pattern of end rhyme in a poem
Rhyme Scheme
the pattern of end rhyme in a poem
Shakespearean sonnets: abab, cdcd, efef, gg

14. Rhythm
the pattern of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

15. Repetition
a technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for effect or emphasis

16. Assonance the repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry
Example: “Till the shining scythes went far and wide, And cut it down to dry”

17. Alliteration the repetition of an initial consonant sound
Example: “Little Larry leaped over the lounging leopards”

18. Consonance the repetition of consonant sounds in a line of poetry
Example: “The sailor sings of ropes and things In ships upon the seas”

19. Onomatopoeia
the use of a word whose sound makes you think of its meaning
Example: “Crash! The plate fell on the floor and shattered.”

20. Symbolism
using a person, place, an object, or an action to stand for something beyond itself

21. words and phrases that appeal to readers’ five senses
Imagery
words and phrases that appeal to readers’ five senses

22. Theme
the meaning, moral, or message about life or human nature that is communicated by a literary work.