POETRY NOTES
Figurative Language: Words used to describe something by comparing it with something else. Any language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words in order to create an image. “Figure of speech”.
Simile: A comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”
Example: His feet were as big as boats.
The team fought like Roman soldiers.
Metaphor: A comparison ff two unlike things with no comparison word (like or as)
Example: We would’ve had more pizza is Steve hadn’t been such a hog
Personification: A type of metaphor where human qualities are given to something nonhuman (animal, object or idea)
Example: The rain kissed my cheek as it fell
The car engine coughed when it stalled in the blizzard.
Imagery: A word or phrase used to see color, motion, sound, smell, feel a texture or temperature or even taste.
Example: The roar of the crowd…
The pitter patter of rain against the window
Alliteration: the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words to create sound in poetry.
Example: She sells sea shells down by the sea shore.
Kyle couldn’t keep quality conversation flowing.
Do or die, safe and sound
Assonance: repetition of a vowel wound anywhere in a word to create sounds in poetry.
Example: free and easy, load and moat
Consonance: repetition of a consonant sound in the middle or end of words to create sound in poetry
Example: I dropped the locket in the thick mud.
Hot and cat, cook and cake, rhyming words
Onomatopoeia: the use of words that sound like what they mean
Example: buzz, swish, sizzle, screetch
Creating Sounds in Poetry
Rhythm in poetry can be created by:
repetition of sounds
-alliteration
-consonance
-assonance
rhyme scheme
repetition of words
line breaks
Repetition is a word or phrase used more than once for emphasis
Figurative Language: Words used to describe something by comparing it with something else. Any language that goes beyond the literal meaning of words in order to create an image. “Figure of speech”.
Simile: A comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”
Example: His feet were as big as boats.
The team fought like Roman soldiers.
Metaphor: A comparison ff two unlike things with no comparison word (like or as)
Example: We would’ve had more pizza is Steve hadn’t been such a hog
Personification: A type of metaphor where human qualities are given to something nonhuman (animal, object or idea)
Example: The rain kissed my cheek as it fell
The car engine coughed when it stalled in the blizzard.
Imagery: A word or phrase used to see color, motion, sound, smell, feel a texture or temperature or even taste.
Example: The roar of the crowd…
The pitter patter of rain against the window
Alliteration: the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words to create sound in poetry.
Example: She sells sea shells down by the sea shore.
Kyle couldn’t keep quality conversation flowing.
Do or die, safe and sound
Assonance: repetition of a vowel wound anywhere in a word to create sounds in poetry.
Example: free and easy, load and moat
Consonance: repetition of a consonant sound in the middle or end of words to create sound in poetry
Example: I dropped the locket in the thick mud.
Hot and cat, cook and cake, rhyming words
Onomatopoeia: the use of words that sound like what they mean
Example: buzz, swish, sizzle, screetch
Creating Sounds in Poetry
Rhythm in poetry can be created by:
repetition of sounds
-alliteration
-consonance
-assonance
rhyme scheme
repetition of words
line breaks
Repetition is a word or phrase used more than once for emphasis
- Creates rhythm
- Alliteration, assonance and consonance are all forms of repetition
- (Ex. I Remember, De Witt Williams, Forgotten)