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Literary Terms
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Literary Terms
In Poetry
AlliterationDefinition: The
__________________of initial consonant sounds
AlliterationExamples:
1. The deep churned. Something had happened down in the dim, foggy-green depths. --Paul Annixter,"Battle in the Depths" 2. Touch each object you want to touch as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. --Helen Keller, "The Seeing See Little"
SimileDefinition: A figure of
speech that uses like or as to make a _____________________
between two unlike ideas
SimileExamples:
1. Concrete mixers move like elephants
2.As precise as a surgeon3.He fights like a lion
MetaphorDefinition: A figure of
speech in which something is _____________ as though it were something else- does not use like or as
MetaphorExamples:
1.Even a child could carry my dog. He’s such a feather.
2.We would have had more pizza to eat if Tammy hadn’t been such a pig.
PersonificationDefinition: A type of figurative
language in which a _________________ is given human characteristics
PersonificationExample: The wind stood up and gave a shout.
He whistled on his fingers andKicked the withered leaves about
And thumped the branches with his handAnd said he'd kill and kill and kill,
And so he will and so he will.-James Stephens, "The Wind"
OnomatopoeiaDefinition: Use of words
that ___________sounds
OnomatopoeiaExample: It SHUSHES, It hushes, The loudness in the road. It flitter-twitters, And laughs away from me.It laughs a lovely whiteness, And whitely whirs away, To be, Some otherwhere, Still white as milk or shirts, So beautiful it hurts.-Cynthia in the Snow, Gwendolyn Brooks
RhymeDefinition: The
______________of sounds at the ends of words- sometimes used to emphasize words or ideas or give the poem a song-like quality
RhymeExample: Three blind mice, three blind mice,See how they run, see how they run,They all ran after the farmer's wife,Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,Did you ever see such a thing in your life,As three blind mice?
End RhymeDefinition: Rhyming words
at the _______of lines
End RhymeExample:
Do you like green eggs and ham?I do not like them, Sam-I-am.I do not like green eggs and ham.
From“Green Eggs and Ham” by Dr. Seuss
Internal RhymeDefinition: Rhyming words
__________the lines
Internal RhymeExample:Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream beforeFrom “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
Rhyming CoupletDefinition: Two
_____________ lines of poetry that rhyme and have the same meter
Rhyming CoupletExample: Singing he was, or fluting all the day; He was as fresh as is the month of May.
From “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer
Rhyme SchemeDefinition: A ________
___________of rhyming words in a poem
Rhyme SchemeExample: There once was a big brown cat a That liked to eat a lot of mice. bHe got all round and fat aBecause they tasted so nice. b
Multiple MeaningsDefinition: Words or
phrases that have _____than one meaning
Multiple MeaningsExamples:
1.Bank- The side of a river or a place for money?
2.Sole- Part of the foot, a fish, or only?
3.Wind- A current of air or to turn round and round?
ImageryDefinition: The use of vivid
language to appeal to one or more of the _____senses
ImageryExamples:
Taste: a tall frosted glass of lemonade, pink sweetness of the watermelon
Sound: crackling underbrushTouch: tepid water, damp jeansSmell: sweaty clothes
AllusionDefinition: A brief reference
to a person, place, thing, idea, or _______in history or literature
AllusionExample: "Christy didn't like to spend money.
She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities".
The allusion is to Ebeneezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
MeterDefinition: Rhythmical
Pattern
MeterExamples:
1.And the sound of a voice that is still
2.Tell me not in mournful numbers
SymbolDefinition: Anything that
stands for or represents ___________else
SymbolExample:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.From “The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost
The forked road is a symbol representing choices in life.
Shakespearean Sonnet
Definition: A sonnet which has ________lines, iambic pentameter, and follows the ababcdcdefefgg pattern
Shakespearean SonnetExample: SONNET 12 When 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 silver'd 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 forsake And die as fast as they see others grow; And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
Iambic PentameterDefinition: an
____________line with five feet or accents, each foot containing an unaccented syllable and an accented syllable
Iambic PentameterExample: From Sonnet 6SONNET 6 Then let not winter's ragged hand
deface In thee thy summer, ere thou be
distill'd: Make sweet some vial; treasure thou
some place
ababcdcdefefggDefinition: Rhyme scheme
Shakespearean sonnet’s follow
ababcdcdefefggExample: Sonnet 18Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? AThou art more lovely and more temperate: BRough winds do shake the darling buds of May, AAnd summer's lease hath all too short a date: BSometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, CAnd often is his gold complexion dimm'd; DAnd every fair from fair sometime declines, CBy chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; DBut thy eternal summer shall not fade ENor lose possession of that fair thou owest; FNor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, EWhen in eternal lines to time thou growest: FSo long as men can breathe or eyes can see, GSo long lives this and this gives life to thee. G