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English 8 Poetry
Poetry terms for English 8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| figurative language | Using comparative language or descriptive language. Example: Busy as a bee. |
| literal language | When something is written and means exactly what it says. The absence of descriptive language. Example: The frog jumped in the pond. |
| Imagery | The use of the senses to evoke images or pictures in one's mind. This is done with the sense of smell, taste, touch, sound and sight. Example: The sweet smell of perfume and the vibrant red of her scarf turned the man's head. |
| denotation | The literal or dictionary meaning of a word. Example: home= a residence. Where one lives. |
| connotation | The feelings or emotion evoked by a word. The emotional meaning of a word. Example: home= safety, security, love, boredom. |
| stanza | a collection of lines and ideas similar to a paragraph in prose writing. |
| speaker | the voice or point of view in a poem. In Langston Hughes' poem "Mother to Son", the speaker is a mother, though the poet is a man. |
| metaphor | a comparison of two unlike things Example: Greg is a lion. |
| Extended metaphor | A metaphor comparison carries on beyond one line of poetry and instead extends to a stanza or throughout the poem. Example: In "Mother to Son", the comparison of life to a staircase extends through the whole poem. |
| simile | A figure of speech involving the comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as". Example: The girl was as quiet as a mouse. |
| personification | Giving human characteristics, behaviours or feelings to a non-human thing. Example: The vacuum cleaner ate the carpet. |
| hyperbole | Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally and used to create an effect or to emphasis a point. Example: The bag weighed a ton. (Yes it was heavy- but not that heavy!) |
| Symbol | A concrete item (a thing) represents an abstract idea, thought or emotion. In Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The Eagle, an eagle represents strength. |
| irony | A situation or effect of an action which shows the opposite of what is intended, meant or needed. Example: In "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Coleridge, a sailor is lost at sea and surrounded by water, yet he is dying of thirst. |
| internal rhyme | The rhyming of words within a single line of poetry. Example: Enjoy the sun and have some fun. |
| end rhyme | When poem lines end with words which sound similar. Example: Daisies are yellow And oh so mellow. |
| approximate rhyme | A term in writing when you use words which sound similar to one another but are not perfect rhymes. Example: Sword and word Again and friend |
| rhyme scheme | Demonstrates, using letters, how the end of lines of a poem rhyme. Example: I'm writing a poem about my cat A He doesn't eat mice, B And he wear a hat. A |
| rhythm | A regularly repeated or regular sound pattern of accented and unaccented syllables. Numbers of syllables and rhyme influence this sound device also. |
| alliteration | Repetition of particular sounds at the beginnings or inside words. Alliteration is the broad category, and assonance, consonance an sibilance are forms of alliteration. |
| Assonance | The repetition of a vowel sound throughout a line of poetry or a stanza. It is important to HEAR the vowel not just see it, as vowels can make more than one sound. Example: It beats.. it sweeps... it cleans! The repeated "eee" sound. |
| consonance | Repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning and inside words or a line of poetry. Example: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. |
| sibilance | Repetition of the "sssss" sound Example: The snake silently slithered. |
| Cacophony | The use of harsh sounds- generally hard consonants- like c, g, p,k, or blends like cr, gr, kr. The ungrateful cow grated the crypt walls. |
| euphony | The intentional use of pleasant-sounding words to create a gentle, peaceful and harmonious mood. Example: The wind softly whispered a lullaby. |
| onomatopoeia | A word which imitates or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. Example: drip, whisper, crash |
| Theme | The poet's message, meaning or big idea being communicated in a poem. Example: In "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes, the theme is "don't give up even though life is hard". |
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Mrs-Leslie-Smith
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