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Poetry Vocabulary!. stanza. Definition: a group of lines from a poem Example:. "I'm nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there's a pair of us — don't tell! They'd banish us, you know. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
• Definition: a group of lines from a poem
• Example:
"I'm nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson
I'm nobody! Who are you?Are you nobody, too?Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!How public, like a frogTo tell your name the livelong dayTo an admiring bog!
• Definition: two consecutive rhyming lines
• Examples:
"I'm nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson
I'm nobody! Who are you?Are you nobody, too?Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!How public, like a frogTo tell your name the livelong dayTo an admiring bog!
• Definition: a pattern of end rhymes in a poem
• Examples:– Shakespearean:abab/cdcd/efef/gg
– Petrarchan:abba/abba/cdecde
"I'm nobody! Who are you?" by Emily Dickinson
I'm nobody! Who are you?Are you nobody, too?Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!How public, like a frogTo tell your name the livelong dayTo an admiring bog!
• Definition: repetition of consonant sounds in several words that are close together
• Examples:– The creepy
creature crawled toward Craig.
• Definition: Comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”
• Examples:• Fast as a cat• Slow as a turtle• Smelly as manure• Clean as a window• Dangerous as a
bomb• Safe as a lock• Jumpy as a
kangaroo
• Definition: a comparison of two unlike things without “like” or “as”
• Examples:– Her heart is stone.– Her eyes are
diamonds.
• Definition: Any language using the five senses
• Examples: -Sight: Shiny-Taste: Sour-Touch: Rough-Hear: Whispering-Smell: Stinky
Definition:
Words whose sounds imitate their meaning.
Examples:
BOOM, CRASH,
BANG, RING
• Definition: a songlike poem that often tells a sad story
• Examples:– “The Dying
Cowboy”
• Definition: a poem that expresses the personal feelings of the speaker
• Examples:– “You Don’t Know
What You’re Getting Into”
– “Valentine for Ernest Mann”
• Definition: a long narrative poem about the deeds of a great hero
• Examples:– “Beowulf”
• Definition: a 14-line lyric poem that follows strict rules of structure, meter, and rhyme
• Examples:– Shakespearean
sonnet: “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day”
• Definition: a long lyric poem, usually praising a person or thing
• Examples:– “Ode to My Feet”– “Ode to a Frog”
• Definition: a poem mourning a person’s death
• Examples:– “An Elegy for
Anne Frank”– “O Captain, My
Captain”
• Definition: a poem without a regular rhyme scheme or meter
• Examples:– “I Hear America
Singing”
• Definition: the message or moral of a story or poem
• Examples:– Don’t judge a
book by its cover.– A brave person
can accomplish the unexpected.
• Definition: a person, place, or thing that has a deeper meaning
• Examples:– Heart = love– Dove = peace
• Definition: an exaggeration
• Examples:– The elephant
weighed a million pounds!
– She talks on the phone forever!
• Definition: the way a writer uses language
• Examples:– Edgar Allen Poe:
• Uses lots of dashes & exclamation points
• Definition: the speaker’s attitude about his/her subject
• Examples:In Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech, he speaks passionately about civil rights.
I have a dream!
• Definition: the feelings the reader gets when reading a poem or story
• Examples:– The “The Tell-
Tale Heart” is scary and intense.