2. POETRY TERMS

3. Figure of speech  compares one thing to something entirely different-It’s never literally true!  Ex: It’s raining cats and dogs.

4. Simile  figure of speech which compares two unlike things using like or as  Example:The horse ran like the wind.

5. Metaphor  comparing two unlike things without using like or as  Example: He is a beast on the football field.

6. Personification  giving human qualities to a non-human thing  Example: The Lion King or The wind whispered.

7. Alliteration  repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words close together.  Ex:Sally sells seashells at the seashore!

8. Onomatopoeia  When a word sounds like what it represents  Example:The bee buzzed.

9. Tone  the attitude of the writer or the speaker towards the subject of the poem or toward the audience.

10. Imagery  using the five senses to evoke a strong picture of a person, place, thing, or experience.

11. Symbol  something that stands for itself and represents something else.  Example: A heart is a symbol for love.

12. Rhyme Scheme  the pattern of rhyme used in a poem rhyme  Example:(Shakespearean sonnets have an abab cdcd efef gg rhyme scheme)  The last word of lines 1 and 3 will rhyme.  The last word of lines 2 and 4 will rhyme.

13. Free form poetry  Where a poem does not have a required form [This shrubby bush preparing itself to blossom re- sem- bles you]

14. Fixed form poetry  -a type of poem or poetry that has a required form  (For example:it has a required amount of lines or syllables or rhyme scheme or all of the above)  Example: A haiku poem has 5 syllables in the first line,7syllables in the 2 nd line, and 5 syllables in the last line

15. Narrative poem  A poem that tells a story  Eminem’s song “Stan” is a narrative poem because it tells a story.

16. Lyric poem  A poem that expresses an emotion or tells how the author feels about life.  Neyo’s “Beautiful Monster” is a lyric poem because it tells how he feels about his girl.

17. Speaker  the voice that talks directly to us in a poem. The speaker is not always the author.

18. Hyperbole  An overstatement or exaggeration  Example:Her heart was as big as a house! (p.s. also a simile)

19. Internal Rhyme  Is a rhyme that occurs within the lines or repetition of an end rhyme within a line  Example: Eminem raps, “That means I’m on top of my game, and it don’t stop til my hip don’t hop anymore”

20. Iambic Pentameter  This is a particular meter in poetry. meterpoetrymeterpoetry  It refers to a line consisting of five iambic feet. iambic feetiambic feet  Below is a line of iambic pentameter Ay, Pil grim Lips that they must use in prayer