1. “Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.” ~Thomas Gray “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” ~Robert Frost

2. Figurative Language  Simile: A comparison of two nouns using the words like or as  “My love for you is like a red, red rose”  Metaphor: A comparison of two nouns saying that one thing is another  “All the world is a stage”

3. Figurative Language cont. Allusion: an indirect reference to a work of literature or historical event, or person, place, or thing of significance. (something people are familiar with) Chocolate was her Achille’s heel. It felt like it rained for forty days and forty nights. Being a good Samaritan, he helped the woman change her flat tire.

4. Figurative Language cont. Hyperbole: Extreme exaggeration The books weigh a ton. I could sleep for a year. I have a million things to do. Personification: When a non-living object has been given qualities of a person The wind whispered through the trees The moon danced on the water

5. Language Denotation: literal or dictionary definition Rose: a prickly bush or shrub that usually bears red, pink, white, or yellow fragrant flowers Connotation: the meaning of a word beyond what it literally describes Rose: a symbol of passion and love

6. Rhyme  End Rhyme: Rhyme that appears at the end of two or more lines of poetry  “I would not, could not, in a box. I could not, would not, with a fox. I will not eat them with a mouse. I will not eat them in a house. I will not eat them here or there. I will not eat them anywhere. I do not eat green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-am. ”

7. Rhyme Internal Rhyme: The rhyming of words within one line of poetry “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary…” Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping...”

8. Alliteration: repetition of sounds at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers…” “Rain races, ripping like wind. Its restless rage rattles like rocks ripping through the air.”

9. Assonance: repetition of a vowel sound, not at the beginning of the words Do you like blue? We viewed the movie about mooing rookies at the school. The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.

10. Consonance: repetition of a consonant sound, not at the beginning of the words I dropped the locket in the thick mud. Eric liked the black book “And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain.” –Edgar Allen Poe

11.  Onomatopoeia: imitation of the sound a word makes  The bee buzzed as it flew through the air.  The horse’s hooves clipped- clopped on the street.  The racecar driver revved his engine.

12. Caesura and Enjambment Caesura: a strong pause or break in the middle of a line of verse “Dead! One of them shot by a sea in the east” Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Mother and Poet” Enjambment: the continuation of a thought into the next line of verse “April is the cruelest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring…” T.S. Eliot, “The Wasteland”