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The Language of PoetryPoetry NotesFigurative LanguageDefinition: Language that communicates meaning beyond the literal meaning.Examples: simile, metaphor, extended metaphor, hyperbole, personificationSimileDefinition: A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, using the word like or asExample: The woman looked like a dog.MetaphorDefinition: a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things that are basically unlike but have something in common. Example: Life is a journey. Extended MetaphorDefinition: A figure of speech that compares two essentially unlike things at some length and in several ways. Example: All the worlds a stage, And all the men and women merely players-William Shakespeare, As You Like ItHyperboleDefinition: A figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or humorous effectExample: I have told you all to do your homework a thousand times. Personification Definition: Figure of speech in which human qualities are given to an object, animal, or idea.Example: The books whispered in the quiet room. SymbolDefinition: A person, place, object, or activity that stands for something beyond itself. Example: A dove is a symbol for peace. Connotation Definition: Attitude or feeling associated with a wordExample: Enthusiastic-positive association; rowdy-negative associationAlliterationDefinition: the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of wordsExample: Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before -Edgar Allan Poe, The RavenAssonance Definition: The repetition of vowel sounds with nonrhyming wordsExample: Only their usual maneuvers, dear -W.H. Auden, O What Is That SoundConsonanceDefinition: The repetition of consonant sounds within and at the end of wordsExample: lonely afternoon Mammals named Sam are clammy. Curse, bless me now! With fierce tears I prey.

Rhyme SchemeDefinition: A pattern of end rhymes in a poem. A rhyme scheme is noted by assigning a letter of the alphabet, beginning with a, to each line. Lines that rhyme are given the same letter. Example: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, aAnd sorry I could not travel both bAnd be one traveler, long I stood aAnd looked down one as far as I could aTo where it bent in the undergrowth b-Robert Frost, The Road Not TakenRhythmDefinition: When words are arranged in such a way that they make a pattern or beat. A pattern of stressed or unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

Example: There once was a girl from ChicagoWho dyed her hair pink in the bathtub

Im making a pizza the size of the sun.

Hint: hum the words instead of saying them.

Iambic PentameterDefinition: A metrical pattern of five feet, or units, of each of which is made up of two syllables, the first unstressed and the second unstressed. Example: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand -William Shakespeare, Romeo and JulietBlank VerseDefinition: Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameterFree VersePoetry that does not contain regular patterns of rhythm or rhymeHaiku Definition: A form of Japanese poetry in which 17 syllables are arranged in three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllablesExample: Harvest moonwalking around the pondall night long. -BashoLyric Poetry Definition: A short poem in which a single speaker expresses thoughts and feelingsExamples: Langstons Hughes Theme for English B and Pat Moras A VoiceNarrative PoetryDefinition: Poetry that tells a story or recounts eventsExample: The Raven by Edgar Allan PoeStanzaDefinition: A group of two or more lines that form a unit in a poemQuatrain Definition: A four-line stanza, or group of lines, in poetryCoupletDefinition: A rhymed pair of lines that may be written in any rhythmic patternAcross the Universe

Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cupThey slither wildly as they slip away across the universePools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mindPossessing and caressing meJai Guru Deva OM

Nothing's gonna change my worldNothing's gonna change my worldNothing's gonna change my worldNothing's gonna change my world

Images of broken light which dance before me like a million eyesThey call me on and on across the universeThoughts meander like a restless wind inside a letter boxThey tumble blindly as they make their way across the universeJai Guru Deva OM

Nothing's gonna change my worldNothing's gonna change my worldNothing's gonna change my worldNothing's gonna change my world

Sounds of laughter shades of live are ringing through my open earsInciting and inviting meLimitless undying love which shines around me like a million sunsIt calls me on and on, across the universeJai Guru Deva OM(With a partner, find and record at least 5 examples of figurative language.)