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Unit 4 review LA
LA
| Vocab Word | Definition | Example | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Repetition | Repeated use of a sound, word or phrase | As the light faded, The love faded | |
| Alliteration | Repetition of sounds at the beginning of words | Feathered Friend | |
| Rhyme | Repetition of sounds at the end of words | The dog was in the fog | |
| Rhythm | The use of beats, or stresses used in spoken or written places | By the shore of Gitchie Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |
| Imagery | What you see in your head you read | The wet dog trampled past you in a soaking wet mound of fur smelling so ripe its death | |
| Sensory Language | Description of sights, sounds, tastes, smells, and texture | The wet dog trampled past you in a soaking wet mound of fur smelling so ripe its death | |
| Diction | Part of creating effective imagery | The wet dog trampled past you in a soaking wet mound of fur smelling so ripe its death | |
| Word Choice | Choice of words used in imagery | Still, as one of us said into his beard, "Without your intellectual and spiritual Values, man, you are sunk." No one but squared The shoulders of his own unloveliness. | |
| Visualize | Picture images in their minds | A wet dripping dog running in the rain | |
| Symbolism | Use of symbols | The Road Not Taken by Robert frost | |
| Simile | Use like or as to compare two different ideas or things | The dog was wet as an lake | |
| Metaphor | Comparing of two different ideas or things | The Silken Tent by Robert Frost | |
| Personification | A nonhuman subject is given human traits | The sun smiled at a young boy | |
| Hyperbole | Exaggeration of speech for emphasis or effect | He was so hungry enough to eat a horse | |
| Analogy | Comparison that is used to increase understanding | He was as big as the sun | |
| Sound Devices | Sounds pleasing the ear | Is pleasing to the ear | |
| Rhyme scheme | A pattern of rhymes in a poem | A pattern of rhymes in a poem | |
| Stanza | A group of lines in a poem | A group of lines in a poem | |
| End rhyme | Repeated sounds at the end of the line | End Fend | |
| Internal rhyme | Repeated sounds within the line | The cow ate some Chow | |
| Consonance | The repetition of a constant sounds at the end of words | The repetition of a constant sounds at the end of words | |
| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds | Stopping by the woods | |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words that imitate sounds | woof bark | |
| Haiku | Required syllables are 5,7,5 and is about nature | ||
| Cinquain | Required syllables are 2,4,6,8,2 or 1,2,3,4,1 and is about anything is possible | ||
| Epic | Longer stanzas and is about a hero | ||
| Lyric | Is normally based off of mourning and is the most common | ||
| Ballad | Longer song about love | ||
| Narrative | Has plot setting character and tells a story | ||
| Ode | Longer stanzas and is a tribute to someone | ||
| Free Verse | ALL BETS ARE OFF | ||
| Limerick | Required syllables for lines 1,2,5 are 8/10 and for 3,4 are 5/7 |
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