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| Language that appeals to the senses. |
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| Language based on some sort of a comparison that is not literally true. Includes simile, metaphors, and personification. |
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| Uses the word "like", "as", "the", or "resembles" to compare things. |
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| Comapres two unlike things not using "like" or "as". |
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| Says something is something else. |
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| Suggests a comparison between two unlike things. |
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| Metaphors extended over several lines, if not the whole poem. |
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| Attributing human qualities to a non-human thing or to an abstract idea. |
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| Includes onomatopoeia, refrain, and rhyme. |
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| The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning, such as buzz, squish, or sizzle. |
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| A repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or group of lines in a poem, song, or speech. |
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| The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem; (includes free verse, approximate rhyme, etc.) |
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| Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme. |
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| A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry; (includes iamb and iambic pentameter) |
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| A metrical foot used in various types of poetry. |
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| A metrical line in poetry measured in small groups of syllables called "feet". (˘) |
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-14 Lines; abab cdcd efef gg
-alternate lines rhyme
-4 stanzas
-ending couplet
Stanzas represented:
-different ideas
-least important to most
-couplet sums everything up |
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| Poetry that expresses a speaker's emotions or thoughts and does not tell a story. |
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| The central idea or insight about life revealed by a work of literature. |
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| The attitude a write takes towards a subject, a character, or the reader; tone is conveyed through the writer's choice of words and details. |
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Title: ponder the title before reading the poem.
Paraphrase: translate the poem into your own words.
Connotation: contemplate the poem for meaning beyond the literal.
Shifts: note shifts in speakers and attitudes.
Title: examine the title again, this time on an interpritive level.
Theme: determine what the poet is saying. |
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| The emotional or personal associations the word carries, beyond it's literal definition. |
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| The level of formality or informality associated with a word. |
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| In poetry particularly, the way words sound and scan contribute to their appropriate-ness. |
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