1. Combs Middle School 8 th Grade

2. Poetry is language that says more than ordinary language and usually says it with fewer, but more colorful words. Poems are often filled with figurative language – figurative language says one thing, but means another. Poetry has a musical quality created by the use of rhythm and rhyme. Some poems tell a story. Some famous poets you may have heard of are… ee Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman

3. Occurs when a series of words in a row (or close to a row) have the same first consonant sound. Example: Madonna’s microphone makes much music.

4. The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words. It is used to reinforce the meanings of words or to set the mood. vowel Example: Pink Floyd’s “Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dark fox gone to ground”

5. A form of poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern. Example: Song of Myself by Walt Whitman I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loaf and invite my soul, I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

6. An unrhymed verse form of Japanese origin having three lines containing usually five, seven, and five syllables respectively. Example: Green and speckled legs, Hop on logs and lily pads Splash in cool water.

7. The use of words (such as hiss or murmur) that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. Example: Snap! Crackle! Pop! The rice krispies sounded delicious as I poured in the milk.

8. Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse. Example: I taught my cat to clean my room, to use a bucket, brush and broom, to dust my books and picture frames, and pick up all my toys and games. He puts my pants and shirts away, and makes my bed, and I should say it seems to me it's only fair he puts away my underwear. In fact, I think he's got it made. I'm not too happy with our trade. He may pick up my shoes and socks, but I clean out his litterbox. --Kenn Nesbitt

9. Recurring movement of sound or speech. Example: An example of rhythm is the rising and falling of someone's voice. An example of rhythm is someone dancing in time with music.

10. Act of doing or saying something over and over and over again. Example: I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too? Then there's a pair of us-don't tell! They'd banish us you know. from "I'm nobody! Who are You?" by Emily Dickinson

11. Refers to the literal meaning of a word, the "dictionary definition.“ Example: If you look up the word snake in a dictionary, you will discover that one of its denotative meanings is "any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous reptiles having a long, tapering, cylindrical body and found in most tropical and temperate regions."

12. Refers to the associations that are connected to a certain word or the emotional suggestions related to that word. The connotative meanings of a word exist together with the denotative meanings. Example: The connotations for the word snake could include evil or danger.