Poetry unit:Review of Poetic Devices and

Figurative Language

Alliteration Repetition of initial consonant

sounds

Example: terrible truths and lullaby lies

Assonance Repetition of vowel sound

Example: mystery disguised within

Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds,

but not vowels

Example: gloomy woman

Imagery Language that evokes sensory images

Sight, sound, taste, feel, smell

Example: drip of ruby teardrops (sound)

Example: to wake up where the green grass grows (visual/sight)

Example: lips like cool sweet tea (taste)

Example: streaming through a velvet sky (touch)

Example: the stench of the underworld (smell)

Internal Rhyme Rhyming that occurs within the

line (rather than at the end)

Example: Piece of me emerges

Metaphor Comparison of unlike things made

without using like or as

Example: I am the “Lone Star”

Mood Emotional response/feelings of

reader based on atmosphere, word choice, and tone of poet

Personification Giving human qualities or

characteristics to animals or objects

Example: tears of amber fell from my soul

Rhyme A pattern of words that contains

similar sounds at the end of the line

Example: life for meis wild and free

Rhyme Scheme A repeated pattern of rhymed words at the end of a

line

Example: Lusty eyes (A)Passionate cries (A)Rich blood, (B)

Bitter sweat (c)

She/he loves (D)

And dies (A)

Similie Comparison using like or as

Example: notes dance across the page like stars twinkle in the night sky

Stanza A group of poetic lines (also called a

verse)

Example:

Like glistening sun

and moon like day and gloomy night like pure earth and gentle clouds transformation - life and death

Symbol An object or action that means

more than its literal meaning

Example: always open like a rosebud about to bloom (a young girl)

Tone An author’s attitude about a

subject or theme

“Mask” by Carl Sandburg FLING your red scarf faster and faster, dancer.

It is summer and the sun loves a million green leaves,     masses of green.Your red scarf flashes across them calling and a-calling.The silk and flare of it is a great soprano leading a     chorusCarried along in a rouse of voices reaching for the heart     of the world.Your toes are singing to meet the song of your arms:

Let the red scarf go swifter.Summer and the sun command you.

Poetry and Pop Culture

Watch the following commercial.

Answer in your packet: Why do you think this poem has to do with

exercise and the Nike brand? What effect does it have on the viewer

(you)?