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Poetry Terminology. Alliteration. Definition: The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or within words Ex) “All d ay within the d reamy d welling The d oors d arkened with d ew.”. Assonance. Repetition of vowel sounds in or at the beginning of words. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Poetry Terminology
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Alliteration
• Definition: The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or within words
• Ex) “All day within the dreamy dwelling
The doors darkened with dew.”
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Assonance
• Repetition of vowel sounds in or at the beginning of words.
• Example: Try to light the fire.
Hayden plays a lot.
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Notice the alliteration in the following poems:
Daddy's Gone A Hunting by: Mother GooseBye, baby bunting,Daddy's gone a - hunting,Gone to get a rabbit skinTo wrap baby bunting in.
Dancing Dolphins by: Paul McCann
Those tidal thoroughbreds that tango through the turquoise tide.
Their taut tails thrashing they twist in tribute to the titans.
They twirl through the trektumbling towards the tide .
Throwing themselves towards those theatrical thespians.
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Free Verse• Definition: Poetry that is not written in a
regular pattern or meter
• But that doesn’t necessarily mean that “anything goes,” because some poets like to make their lines rhythmic.
• One way they do that is by repeating sentence patterns. One example is Walt Whitman’s poem, “Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun.”
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from “Give me the Splendid, Silent Sun”
Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling,
Give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard,
Give me a field where the unmowed grass grows,
Give me an arbor, give me the trellised grape…
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Free Verse, continued
• Other free verse poems:
• Pg. 671 “I Hear America Singing”
• Pg. 672 “I, Too, Sing America”
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Imagery
• Concrete images that appeal to the senses
• A quarter horse, no rider
canters through the pasture
thistles raise soft purple burrs
her flanks are shiny in the sun
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Mood
• The total feeling in a literary work or the choice of setting, objects, details, images and words that contribute to a specific mood
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Stanza
• A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit
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Simile
• Definition: A comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles.
• Example: The steak is tougher than an old shoe.
• Example: My mom is as old as a Civil War soldier.
• Example: The cat is soft like peach fuzz.
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Metaphor
• Definition: an imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be like another
• Ex) Fog rubbing its back on windows
makes a sudden leap and curls
around the house to fall asleep• By using words that we associate with a cats
behavior, the author, Eliot, suggests a comparison without stating, “The fog is a cat.”
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Metaphor (cont)
• Ex) Computers are the vehicles for tomorrow
• Ex) The parks are the lungs of London.
• Ex) My heart is a lonely hunter.
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Onomatopoeia
• Definition: The use of words whose sounds imitate or suggest their meaning.
• Ex) Buzz, boom, tick tock
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Personification
• Definition: A figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken of as if it had human thoughts, feelings, or attitudes.
• Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon; This way and that, she peers and sees Silver fruit upon silver trees
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Repetition
• When the author repeats a word or phrase to emphasize it in the poem.
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Hyperbole
• An exaggerated statement used especially as a figure of speech to heighten effect.
• There was a young lady from Lynn Who was so exceedingly thin That when she essayed To drink lemonade She slid down the straw and fell in.
• Let’s look at “Cremation of Sam McGee” pg. 637 for more hyperbole.
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Symbol
• A person, a place, a thing, or an event that has meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself as well
• Ex) The American eagle stands for freedom.
• Let’s read “The New Colossus” pg. 493 of you Literature book.
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Meter
• The PATTERN of stressed and unstressed syllables/beats in spoken or written language
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Rhyme
• The repetition of vowel sounds and all the sounds following them in words that are close together in the poem.
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Rhythm
• A musical quality produced by the pattern of stresses of beats in spoken or written language