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English Poetry
Poetry Terms from English 8
| Term | Definition | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Descriptive Devices and Poetic Terms: Literal language | When something is written and it means exactly what it says | Example: The frog sat on the log | |
| Descriptive Devices and Poetic Terms: Images/imagery | The use of the senses to evoke the images. By describing something with great visual detail, the reader can "see" the sight in their mind. this is done with the sense of touch, taste, smell, or sound as well. | Example: The red rose was perfect in its form; the soft, velvety petals curled around the core, and its gentle scent of beauty was appreciated by all who passed | |
| Descriptive Devices and Poetic Terms: Denotation | The literal or dictionary meaning of the word | Example: home- the residence in which a person lives | |
| Descriptive Devices and Poetic Terms: Connotation | The feelings or emotions evoked by a word. In essence, the emotional meaning of a word, as opposed tot he literal meaning. | Example: Home- family, warmth, safety, rest, food, boredom | |
| Descriptive Devices and Poetic Terms: Stanza | A collection of lines and ideas similar to a paragraph in prose writing | ||
| Descriptive Devices and Poetic Terms: Speaker | The voice or point of view of the poem. | Example: Langston Hughes' poem "mother to son" speaker was Mother | |
| Figurative language used for making comparisons: Metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things | Example: Shawnigan Lake School Is My Home. Joe is My Sunshine. | |
| Figurative language used for making comparisons: Extended Metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things which carries on beyond one line of poetry but instead extends through out a stanza or the whole poem | Example: "Mother to Son" Langston Hughes A staircase to Life | |
| Figurative language used for making comparisons: Simile | A figure of speech involving the comparison of two unlike things using the words "like" or "as" | Example: Mr Lam is like a calculator She is as quiet as a mouse | |
| Figurative language used for making comparisons: Personification | giving human characteristics, behaviours or feelings to a non-human being. | Example: Stupid vacuum! So gluttonous and greedy, Yelling at me with his obnoxious roar. | |
| Figurative language used for making comparisons: Hyperbole | Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally and used to create an effect or emphasis. | Example: The bad weighed a ton. (It didn't really, but it was very heavy.) | |
| Figurative language used for making comparisons: Irony | A situation or effect of an action which shows the opposite of what is intended, meant or needed. | Example: "rime of the ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. | It describes a sailor lost at sea There is water everywhere (salt water) yet there is not a single drop of fresh water to drink, and even the floor boards of the ship are drying out. |
| Sound devices: Internal Rhyme | The rhyming of words occur within a single line of poetry | Example: When Kate walked in the house, she screamed when she stepped on a mouse | |
| Sound devices: End rhyme | When poem lines ends with words which sound similar | Example: Roses are red daisies are yellow you are very sweet and so very mellow | |
| Sound devices: approximate rhyme | A term in writing when you use two words that sound similar to one another but, isn't a perfect rhyme. | Examples: Crane and Lame Spare and Hair Sword and word Again and Friend half and Mat tap and HAt Love and But | |
| Sound devices: Rhyme Scheme | Demonstrates, using letters, how the end of lines of a poem rhyme | Example: I'm writing a poem about a cat, (A) he likes to wear a silly hat. (A) He got it from the grocery store,(B) but lost it and can't wear it anymore.(B) | |
| Sound devices: Rhythm | A regularly repeated or regular sound pattern of accented and unaccented syllables. Number of syllables and rhyme often influence this sound device also. | Example: Was this the face that launched a thousand ships? duh DUH duh DUH duh DUH duh DUH duh DUH ( capitals are accented syllables) | |
| Sound devices: Alliteration | repetition of particular sounds at the beginning or inside of words. Alliteration is teh broad category and assonance, consonance, and sibilance are types of alliteration | ||
| Sound devices: Assonance | The repetition of a vowel sound throughout a line of poetry or a stanza. It is important to HEAR the vowel not SEE it, as vowels can make more than one sound | Example: It BEATS as it SWEEPS as it CLEANS (Listen for the EEE sound) | |
| Sound devices: Consonance | Repetition of consonant sound at the beginning and inside of words in a sequence. It is a type of alliteration | Example: Peter Pieper Picked a Peck Of Pickled Peppers | |
| Sound devices: Sibilance | |||
| Sound devices: Cacophony | Harsh mixture of sound, generally the hard consonant sounds, hard c,g,p,k,x sounds | Example: The ungrateful crow grated the crypt walls | |
| Sound devices: Euphony | The use of pleasant sounding words or combinations or pleasant sounds to create a gentle, peaceful, and harmonious mood | Example: To Autumn by John Keats And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease | |
| Sound devices: Onomatopoeia | A word that imitates or suggests the source of the sound it describes | Example: Words related to water: Bloop, splash, squirt, dribble, drip | |
| Descriptive Devices and Poetic Terms: Figurative Langauge | whenever you describe something by comparing it to something else, you are using figurative language, or when you use descriptive language. | Example: Busy as a bee, or fluffy, puffy clouds | |
| Figurative language used for making comparisons: Symbol | A concrete item (a thing) is used to represent an abstract idea, thought, or emotion | Example: A heart represents love, in the poem "The Eagle" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, an eagle represents strength, power, freedom and the natural world |
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