1. Poetry Terms
Ms. Bell
ELA

2. Diction
Word Choice

3. Connotation
The feeling that a word evokes
Positive
Negative
neutral

4. Denotation
The dictionary definition

5. Mood
How YOU feel about the text

6. Tone
How the AUTHOR feels about the text

7. Rhyme
The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words, most often at the end of lines
Ex. They put me in the oven to bake. Me a deprived and miserable cake. Feeling the heat I started to bubble. Watching the others I knew I was in trouble...

8. Rhythm Pattern of stresses within a line of verse
Stressed syllables- long soundng
Unstressed syllables- short sounding

9. Alliteration
The repetition of identical consonant sounds, most often the sounds at the beginning of words
Three grey geese in a green field grazing, Grey were the geese and green was the grazing.

10. Onomatopoeia
Words that imitate a sound or action
Ex. Pop, buzz, slurp

11. Repetition The repeating of a phrase or line in poetry
Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn…

12. Simile
A direct comparison between two dissimilar things; uses “like” or “as”
“Friends are like chocolate cake
You can never have too many.
Chocolate cake is like heaven –
Always amazing you with each taste or feeling.”

13. Metaphor
A comparison between two unlike things, describes one thing as if it were something else.
Does NOT use “like’ or “as”
Ex. If I were a Rose painted black, would you cast me aside like blackened, burnt rice? Would my color tarnish my sweet smell?

14. Hyperbole An exaggeration for effect Ex. Your suitcase weighs a ton!
“I had to wait in the station for ten days-an eternity.”

15. Personification Giving human characteristics to nonhumans
Ex. Hey, diddle, diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon.

16. Symbolism
The use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense.
Ex. A light exists in Spring
Not present on the year
At any other period—
When March is scarcely here

17. Imagery
The sight, sounds, tastes, feelings, and smells that that the author makes the reader experience with their writing

18. Free Verse
Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter

19. Poem Structure Brother and Sister by Ernő Béli Vörös
Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home; Where sisters dwell and brothers meet, Quarrels should never come.
Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight, When children of one family Fall out and chide and fight.
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