Literary Terms/ Figurative Language

Alliteration – the repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words.

Ex: To make a man to meet the mortal need A man to match the mountains

Assonancethe repetition of vowel sounds but not consonant sounds

Ex: The fleet sweep by the sleeping geese

Literary Terms/ Figurative Language

Chiasmus• type of rhetoric in which the second part

is syntactically balanced against the first. – "There's a bridge to cross the great divide. . .

. • There's a cross to bridge the great divide. . . ."

– Flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike. Imagery

language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching.

Literary Terms/ Figurative Language

Metaphor– comparison of two unlike things using the

verb "to be" and not using like or as in a simile.

– Example:He is a pig. Thou art sunshine.

SimileA comparison using like or as

Her smile is like the sun

Types of Rhyme

• Internal Rhyme – rhyming within a line.

• Example:I awoke to black flak.

• Rhyme Scheme – rhymed words at the ends of lines. – Example:

Roses are red AViolents are blue BSugar is sweet CAnd so are you. B

Sonnet #12 ExplainedWhen I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;When I behold the violet past prime,And sable curls, all silvered o'er with white;When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,And summer's green all girded up in sheaves,Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard,Then of thy beauty do I question make,That thou among the wastes of time must go,Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsakeAnd die as fast as they see others grow;And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defenceSave breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.

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Rhyme Scheme

O

C

T

A

V

E

S

E

S

T

E

T Couplet