The close repetition of initial consonants in poetry or prose. Example: Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled peppers.

The repetition of vowel sounds, without repetition of consonants. Example: fleet feet sweep by sleeping geeks

Exceptional exaggeration for comic or dramatic effect. Example: I am so hungry I could eat a cow. Her brain is the size of a pea You snore louder than a freight train My backpack weighs a ton! His smile was a mile wide

In poetry, the expression of an idea, object, or action by creating an actual or symbolic sensation. To paint a picture for the reader through words. Five Senses: Sight Sound Touch Taste Smell

The poet’s strategic choice of where a line ends Affects: Pace Rythym Mood Tone Characters Sound Shape Meaning

A metrical line ending at a grammatical boundary or break—such as a dash or closing parenthesis—or with punctuation such as a colon, a semicolon, or a period. A line is considered end-stopped, too, if it contains a complete phrase.

The running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation; the opposite of end-stopped.

Figure of speech that substitutes on object for another. A is B. Example: I am a red balloon, a balloon tied to an anchor. "But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill." (William Sharp, "The Lonely Hunter") "The rain came down in long knitting needles." (Enid Bagnold, National Velvet)

In poetry, a system for measuring the number of feet of a certain rhythm and organizing them into lines. Types: Monometer (1) Pentameter (5) Dimeter(2) Hexameter (6) Trimeter(3) Heptameter (7) Tetrameter(4) Octameter (8) Notice the Prefixes!!!

The emotion that is evoked in the reader by the poem. Moods: Sad, happy, angry, etc.

The use of words whose sounds suggest the sense. Example: Pow, buzz, hiss, etc.

Treating nonhuman things as if they are human. Example: Fear knocked on the door. Faith answered. There was no one there. – Proverb The flowers dance in the wind The moon seemed to smile at me from the sky. The wind whispered softly in the night. The sun played hide and seek with the clouds.

A stanza, line, or phrase that is repeated regularly or irregularly throughout a work. It can be used to emphasize thematic, rhythmic, or stylistic qualities. I looked upon the rotting sea, And drew my eyes away; I looked upon the rotting deck, And there the dead men lay. - “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Rhyme is the recurrence of identical or similar sounds which, in poetry, can occur at the: end, beginning, or middle of a line; end rhyme is the most common in poetry.

End Rhyme- The words at the end of lines rhyme (creates a rhyme scheme) Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”: Whose woods these are I think I know, His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

Rhyme Scheme - the fixed pattern of rhyme for the whole poem [abab, cdcd, efef, gg] Bid me to weep, and I will weep While I have eyes to see; And having none, and yet I will keep A heart to weep for thee.

Figure of speech that compares two objects by using the words “as,” “as if,” or “like.” A is like B He fights like a lion. She swims like a dolphin. He slithers like a snake. He runs like a cheetah. She kicks like a mule. He flopped like a fish out of water.

The narrator of a poem

In poetry, a regular, rhymed, recurrent pattern of lines. The counterpart of a paragraph in prose, except that it is regulated by form (numbers of lines, rhyme scheme, meter, and so on), and customarily divided from other stanzas by spaces. Types: Couplet (rhymed)2 lines Tercet (unrhymed) 3 lines Triplet (rhymed)3 lines Quatrain (rhymed/unrhymed) 4 lines

The speaker’s attitude that is revealed in the poem. What is the speaker’s attitude in the poem?