1. Poetry Terms

2. Poetic Techniques - Sound

3. Rhythm Definition: the pattern of beats of stresses in a line (hint – regular rhythm = metrical verse) “The Raven” By Edgar Allan Poe 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, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. `'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door - Only this, and nothing more.'

4. Rhyme Definition: repetition of sounds at the ends of words End Rhyme – occurs at the ends of lines Internal Rhyme – occurs within the lines Slant Rhyme (aka near/half/off rhyme) – substitutes assonance or consonance for true rhyme While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, (“The Raven” – Poe) `'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door - Only this, and nothing more.' (“The Raven” – Poe) Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all. (“Hope is the thing with feathers” – Dickinson)

5. Alliteration Definition: repetition of the same sound beginning several words in a sequence “Step forward, Tin Man. You dare to Come to me for a heart do you? You clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk… And you, Scarecrow, have the effrontery to ask for a brain! You billowing bale of bovine fodder!" - delivered by the "Wizard of Oz" from the movie The Wizard of Oz from the movie The Wizard of Oz

6. Assonance Definition: repetition of vowel sounds in words that end with different consonant sounds Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore… (Poe – “The Raven”) Hear the mellow wedding bells… (Poe – “The Bells”)

7. Consonance Definition: a type of slant rhyme in which the ending consonants match, but the preceding vowels do not I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one; Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan, We all have seen him, in the pantomime, Sent to the Devil somewhat ere his time. (Byron – “Don Juan”)

8. Onomatopoeia Definition: words that sound like what they mean

9. Poetic Techniques - Meaning

10. Major Terms… Image Definition: words or phrases used to describe something that appeals to senses (seen, heard, smelled, etc) Ex: My mouth watered as I watched my mom pull the savory turkey out of the oven on Thanksgiving. Figurative Language Definition: any writing or speech meant to be understood figuratively rather than literally Ex: hyperbole, understatement, metaphor, simile, metonymy/synecdoche, personification, and synaesthesia

11. Hyperbole Definition: use of overstatement for rhetorical effect

12. Understatement Definition: deliberately expresses an idea as less important than it actually is, either for ironic emphasis or for politeness and tact “It isn't very serious. I have “It isn't very serious. I have this tiny little tumor on the brain.” this tiny little tumor on the brain.” - J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

13. Metaphor/Simile Definition: compares one thing to another in order to explain by comparison. Similes use “like” or “as”; metaphors do not. Simile: “You’re as cold as ice…” Metaphor: “No man is an island.” Simile: “You’re as cold as ice…” Metaphor: “No man is an island.” - Foreigner (song)- John Donne - Foreigner (song)- John Donne

14. Personification Definition: describing an idea, animal, or thing as if it were a person "Once again, the heart of America is heavy. The spirit of America weeps for a tragedy that denies the very meaning of our land." -- Lyndon Baines Johnson

15. The End??? No… This is just the beginning… This is just the beginning…