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poetry(english 11)
poetry terms and poem analysis
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Transcendentalsim | An intellectual movement founded by Emerson. God/Nature/Humanity are united in a shared, universal soul or oversoul. |
| Imagery | language that evokes one or all of the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and touching. |
| Symbol | using an object or action that means something more than its literal meaning. |
| Metaphor | A comparison of two unlike things. |
| Simile | A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as" |
| Personification | giving human qualities to animals or objects. |
| Alliteration | Repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words: Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Peppers(p's) |
| Assonance | Repetition of vowel sounds in neighboring words: flEEt fEEt swEEp be slEEping gEEks. (EE's) |
| Consonance | reptition of constant sounds in neighboring words: daRk deep dRead cRept (R's) |
| Onomatopeia | a word that imitates teh sound it represents. EX: splash, gush, bang |
| "I, Too" | Poem written by Langston Hughes about racism twoards African Americans. A response to Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing" |
| "To Walt Whitman" | Poem written by Angela de Hoyos about the absence of Native Americans in Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing" |
| Walt Whitman | Poet who wrote in free verse style. wrote: "from Leaves of Grass" "from Song of Myself" and "I Hear America Singing" |
| "from Walden" | Poem written by Henry David Thoreau |
| Emily Dickinson | Poet who wrote numerous poems such as: "the brain is wider than the sun" "because I could not stop for death" "I heard a fly buzz" "theres a certian slant of light" "My life closed twice..." "the soul selects her own society" etc. |
| "Because I could not stop for death" | Emily Dickinson poem message: you cant escape death and after death, you go to an afterlife where you live eternally. |
| "I heard a fly buzz- when I did" | Emily Dickinson poem message: Death is focoused on something irrelevant. |
| "Theres a certian slant of light" | Emily Dickinson poem message: you cant escape grief and death. |
| "My life closed twice..." | Emily Dickinson poem *poem was about how her life was so full of grief that she had died twice before actually dying |
| "the soul selects her own society" | Emily Dickinson poem Theme: making life decisons and choices |
| "there is a solitude of space" | Emily Dickinson Poem message: everything is its own, nothing is better than anything else, everything is equal. |
| "water, is taught by thirst" | Emily Dickinson poem message: you learn from experiencing the opposite of something. |
| Alices aunt ate apples and acorns around August is what? | alliteration |
| Dans dog dove deep in the dam | alliteration |
| buckets of big blueberries | alliteration |
| some mammals are clammy | consonance |
| try to light the fire | assonance |
| i lie down by the side of my bride | assonance |
| stanza | a group of lines formed in a poem |
| meter | rhyme of piece of poetry |
| rhythm | a strong pattern |
| free verse | poetry that does not rhyme |
| slant rhyme | a partial rhyme ex. heat heart, tim skin |
| exact rhyme | exact sound |
| rhyme scheme | ordered pattern of rhymes |
| parallel structure | balance of two or more similar words |
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paigeanderson