Images

• Images are pictures (with words):

“The sky was blood red, and the dust made the plains look like a giant beach with no water in sight.”

Figures of Speech

• Language that makes connections between dissimilar (different) things

• Personification• Simile• Metaphor

Stanzas

• Groups of Lines in a Poem

“I rise to makefour prayers of

thanksgiving forthis fine clear day,”

Simile

• Compares two unlike things, using a specific word of comparison such as “like” or “as.”

He was as big as a mountain.

Metaphor

• Directly compares two unlike things without the use of a specific word of comparison.

He is a mountain of a man!

Extended Metaphor

• A metaphor developed or extended through several lines.

This mountain of a manStood over everything around him,

Blocked out the sunAnd rumbled in bad weather

Personification

• Giving a human characteristic to a nonhuman thing.

The stars danced in the night.

Tone

• The way a writer feels about a subject.

My school was dark and cold,And it was like we studied in a cave

full of alumni’s bones,with trolls for teachers…

Imagery

• Language that appeals to the senses.

“How thin and sharp is the moon tonight!How thin and sharp and ghostly white

Is the thin curved crook of the moon tonight.”

Narrative Poem

• A poem that tells a story.

Lyric Poem

• A poem that expresses an emotion

Sonnet

• A lyric poem of exactly fourteen lines.

Ode

• A poem that pays tribute (honors or praises) someone or something.

Rhythm

• Refers to the rise and fall of our voices as we use language.

Rhyme

• Words that have different beginning sounds but the same ending sounds.

• Fat/cat/rat/sat

End rhyme

• Rhymes that occur at the end of two or more lines:

“Moldy melons, dried-up mustard,Eggshells mixed with lemon custard”

Internal Rhyme

• Words that rhyme within lines.

“Candy the yams and spice the hams.”

Rhyme Scheme

• The pattern of rhymes in a poem:Example of an abcb poem:

Roses are red,Violets are blue,This class stinksAnd so do you…

Alliteration

• Repetition of a consonant sound in words that are close together:

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Onomatopoeia

• Use of words with sounds that echo their meaning:

• Pow, Bang, clickety clack, varoom…

Couplet

• Two lines in a row that rhyme and express a complete thought:

I think that I shall never seeAnything as lovely as a tree.

Elegy

• A peom that mourns the passing of something.

Repetition

• Words or lines or stanzas that repeat.

Four lean hounds crouched low and smiling…

Free Verse Poem

• A poem without rhyme scheme or regular meter.