1. Terms

2. Poetry  a type of literature in which ideas and feelings are expressed in compact, imaginative, and often musical language. Written in lines, which may contain patterns of rhyme and rhythm and are grouped into stanzas

3. Figurative Language  presents ordinary things in fresh ways, communicating ideas that go beyond words’ ordinary meanings

4. Simile  a comparison between two things that share a similar characteristic that contains the words like or as  Example: “strong as steel”

5. Metaphor  a comparison between two things that share a similar characteristic that do not contain the words like or as  Example: “My father is a tall, sturdy, oak”

6. Personification  giving human qualities to an animal, object, or idea  Example: “the breeze caressed her cheek.”

7. Hyperbole  a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphasis or for humorous effect

8. Idiom  A phrase or expression which means something different from what the words actually say  http://www.idiomsite.com/ http://www.idiomsite.com/

9. Sound Devices  a technique used by poets to make their writing sound more musical and pleasant to the reader

10. Rhyme  the likeness of sounds at the ends of words

11. End Rhyme  the use of rhyming words at the end of lines  Example: “The baby bat cried out in fright; Turn on the dark, I’m afraid of the light!” (Shel Silverstein)

12. Internal Rhyme  the use of rhyming words within a line of poetry  Example: “Jack Sprat could eat no fat His wife could eat no lean And so betwixt the two of them They licked the platter clean”

13. Rhyme Scheme  the pattern of end rhyme in a poem  Shakespearean sonnets: abab, cdcd, efef, gg

14. Rhythm  the pattern of sound created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

15. Repetition  a technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for effect or emphasis

16. Assonance  the repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry  Example: “Till the shining scythes went far and wide, And cut it down to dry”

17. Alliteration  the repetition of an initial consonant sound  Example: “Little Larry leaped over the lounging leopards”

18. Consonance  the repetition of consonant sounds in a line of poetry  Example: “The sailor sings of ropes and things In ships upon the seas”

19. Onomatopoeia  the use of a word whose sound makes you think of its meaning  Example: “Crash! The plate fell on the floor and shattered.”

20. Symbolism  using a person, place, an object, or an action to stand for something beyond itself

21. Imagery  words and phrases that appeal to readers’ five senses

22. Theme  the meaning, moral, or message about life or human nature that is communicated by a literary work.