Alliteration Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words located near each other in a text.

Onomatopoeia Word that imitates a sound

The Rusty Spigot by Eve Merriam  The rusty spigot  sputters,  utters  a splutter,  spatters a smattering of drops,  gashes wider;  slash  splatters  scatters  spurts  finally stops sputtering  and plash!  gushes rushes splashes  clear water dashes. Eve Merriam’s use of onomatopoeias crates the tone and theme. What is the tone? What is the theme?

I Heard A Fly Buzz by Emily Dickenson I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm. The eyes beside had wrung them dry And breaths were gathering sure For that last onset, when the king Be witnessed in his power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,-and then There interposed a fly, With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz, Between the light and me; And then the windows failed, and then I could not see to see. What effect does the buzz of the fly have on the speaker’s message about death?

The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; Along the sea-sands damp and brown The traveler hastens toward the town, And the tide rises, the tide falls. Darkness settles on roofs and walls, But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls. The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls. What effect does the repetition of “the tide rises, the tide falls” have on the poem’s meaning?

Bells by Edgar Allen Poe Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells. Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten-golden notes, And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon! Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the Future! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells, Of the bells, bells, bells,bells, Bells, bells, bells To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells! What is the effect of repeating “bells,” and using onomatopoeias and rhymes to describe bells?

Rhyme: same or similar ending vowel or consonant sounds in words near each other in poetry Exact Rhyme: dock and rock Slant Rhyme: place and daze Eye Rhyme: through and tough End Rhyme: rhyming words at the end of lines in poetry Internal Rhyme: Rhyming words within a line of poetry

Limerick There was an Old Person whose habits, Induced him to feed upon rabbits; When he'd eaten eighteen, He turned perfectly green, Upon which he relinquished those habits.

Sonnet Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee.

Septet I meet my love When fate decrees to be sublime I meet my love Knowing that in the stars above We meet and share and you are mine Somewhere in the deep mists of time I meet my love