Poetry A metrical writing chosen and arranged to create or evoke a specific emotional response through meaning, sound and rhythm.

Terminology  Alliteration – repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds in words that are close together in a poem “Open here I flung the shutter, when with many a flirt and flutter, /In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore.”  Allusion- reference to a statement, a person, place or event in history, literature, etc.

Terminology  Analogy- a comparison made between two things to show how they are alike in some respects  Assonance- repetition of similar vowel sounds that are followed by different consonant sounds.  Ballad – a song that tells a story

Terminology  Blank verse - poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter  Connotation- the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests  Couplet- two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme  I am his Highness’ dog at Kew; Pray me, Sir, whose dog are you?”

Terminology  Denotation – the definition of a word  Diction- A writer or speaker’s choice of words  Epic – a long story told in an elevated language which relates the deeds of a “larger-than-life” hero who embodies the values of a particular society

Terminology  Free verse – poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme  Haiku – Japanese verse form consisting of three lines and usually seventeen syllables (5 first line, 7 second, 5 third)  Hyperbole – figure of speech using exaggeration to express an emotion. An overstatement. His shoes were the size of ocean liners.

Terminology  Idiom – expression peculiar to a particular language that means something different from the original meaning of each word Raining cats and dogs  Imagery - language that appeals to any of the senses  Inversion – reversal of the normal word order of a sentence

Terminology  Lyric poetry – poetry that does not tell a story but is aimed only at expressing a speaker’s emotions or thoughts.  Metaphor – a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things. Does not use LIKE or AS “My love is a red rose” Implied – does not directly say that something is something else but uses words to suggest the nature of the comparison  “O, my love bursts into bloom” Extended - a metaphor that is developed over several lines

Terminology  Meter – generally regular pattern of stress and unstressed syllables Iambic(*/) That time of year thou mayst in me behold Trochaic (/*)  Tell me not in mournful numbers Anapestic (**/)  And the sound of a voice that is still Dactylic (/**)  This is the forest primeval, the…

Terminology  Onomatopoeia – the expression of a sound through words “Bang”  Personification - giving human-like qualities to non human things “This poetry gets bored of being alone”  Refrain – repeated word, phrase, line or group of lines

Terminology  Rhyme – repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together as in poems End - rhyme occurs at the end of a line of poetry Internal – rhyme occurs within a line of poetry  Rhythm – musical quality in language produced by repetition

Terminology  Simile – figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using words similar to like, resemble, as, etc. “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”  Sonnet – a 14 line lyric poem that is usually in iambic pentameter and that has one of several rhyme schemes  Stanza – a group of consecutive lines in poetry that form a single unit

Terminology  Symbol – a person, place, thing or event that stands for itself and something beyond itself as well A Scale, An eagle, etc.  Theme – a central idea of a work of literature  Tone – an attitude a writer takes toward the audience, a subject or a character