2. POETRY

3. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

4. SIMILE 4 A comparison of two things using “like or as” –“She is as beautiful as a sunrise.”

5. METAPHOR 4 A direct comparison of two unlike things –“All the world’s a stage, and we are merely players.” - William Shakespeare

6. PERSONIFICATION 4 A nonhuman thing given human qualities.

7. POETRY FORM 4 FORM - the appearance of the words on the page –VERSE- a group of words together on one line of the poem –STANZA - a group of lines arranged together Verse -A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.

8. SOUND EFFECTS

9. FREE VERSE POETRY 4 Does NOT rhyme. 4 Free verse poetry is very conversational - sounds like someone talking with you. Running through a field of clover, Stop to pick a daffodil I play he loves me, loves me not, The daffy lies, it says he does not love me! Well, what use a daffy When Jimmy gives me roses? -- Flora Launa

10. RHYME 4 Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds. 4 (A word always rhymes with itself.) LAMP STAMP DOOR SNORE JIMMY GIMME

11. END RHYME 4 A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line Hector the Collector Collected bits of string. Collected dolls with broken heads And rusty bells that would not ring.

12. RHYME SCHEME 4 A rhyme scheme is a pattern of rhyme (usually end rhyme, but not always). 4 Use the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually “see” the pattern. (See next slide for an example.)

13. SAMPLE RHYME SCHEME The Germ by Ogden Nash A mighty creature is the germ, Though smaller than the pachyderm. His customary dwelling place Is deep within the human race. His childish pride he often pleases By giving people strange diseases. Do you, my poppet, feel infirm? You probably contain a germ. aabbccaaaabbccaa

14. ONOMATOPOEIA 4 Words that imitate the sound they are naming BUZZ TLOT-TLOT

15. ALLITERATION 4 Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

16. ASSONANCE 4 Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of poetry. (Often creates near rhyme.) LakeFateBaseFade (All share the long “a” sound.)

17. REFRAIN 4 A sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem. “Quoth the raven, ‘Nevermore.’”