Alliteration: 2 or more words rhyme
=And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain (Poe)
Allusion: to give a hint what will happen next (nondirectly)
='No more to build on there. And they, since they/ Were not the one dead, turned to
their affairs. (Out, out-)
Figurative language: expressing or describing things with lots of words ad expressions (non directly)
=Hear the mellow wedding bells. - Edgar Allen Poe
Free verse: writing a poem freely with out thinking about the rules.
=After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds;
After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,
Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,
Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship:
Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,
Waves, undulating waves—liquid, uneven, emulous waves,
Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves,
Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking, displaced the surface;
(After the Sea-Ship by Walt Whitman)
Hyperbole: over-statement, to exaggerate a thing or an event.
=It doesn't get better than this” (Oscar Meyer)
imagery: creatin pictures in readers minds by expressing and describing the event or thing alot.
=And
eyes of metallic grey,
Hard
and narrow and slit. (Edwin John Pratt)
Lyric: Lyric poetry is one of three genres of poetry; the other two are dramatic and narrative.
=James
DeFord
Italian
Sonnet by James DeFord,
written in 1997:
Turn
back the heart you've turned away
Give
back your kissing breath
Leave
not my love as you have left
The
broken hearts of yesterday
But
wait, be still, don't lose this way
Affection
now, for what you guess
May
be something more, could be less
Accept
my love, live for today.
Metaphor: to describe something by saying two different things are alike or same. (without using 'like') 'A is B'
=The
Sun Rising
“She
is all states, and all princes, I.” (John Donne)
Mood: feeing or atmosphere
="Once
upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary" or "And the silken sad
uncertain rustling of each purple curtain" - myterious (Poe)
Onomatopoeia: same part is repeateding the word expressing something. 'Moo moo'
= water
plops into pond
splish-splash
downhill
warbling
magpies in tree
trilling,
melodic thrill
whoosh,
passing breeze
flags
flutter and flap
frog
croaks, bird whistles
babbling
bubbles from tap
by Lee Emmett
Oxymoron: to express somethng by using two contradicting words. (Discrepancy)
="I
can resist anything, except temptation." - Oscar Wilde
paradox: just itself doesot make sense but as yu think about it, you get the meaning at it make sense.
=I
must be cruel to be kind." (hamlet)
Personification: Describing and expressing something that is not a human or alive as it has a characteristics of a
person.
=owl eyes spoke to meby the gate -The great gatsby
Repitition: to repeat something to make a rhyme and also emphasize it.
=My
conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And
every tongue brings in a several tale,
And
every tale condemns me for a villain."
(William
Shakespeare, Richard III)
Rhyme scheme: determining the rhyme pattern of a poem, and express it by using A pattern, B pattern and on.
=Whose
woods these are I think I know - a
His
house is in the village though - a
He
will not see me stopping here - b
To
watch his woods fill up with snow -a
(shakesphere's sonet)
Rhythm: repeating over a amount of time and giving a rhyme
=The
wind in her hair over there
The chair that sat with her hair
Eyes
on eyes
Fire
and lye
in
the river sky on I
Roses
are red (or white)
Violets
are blue
in
the sky
i
will tell you buy
Simile: expressing something that they are alike by using 'like' in the expression.
=So i stared at it, like Kant at his chruch steeple - The great gatsby
Stanza: one paragraph in a poem
=water
plops into pond
splish-splash
downhill
warbling
magpies in tree
-3 stanzas
Symbol: expressing something by representing something
=Ah
Sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun; Seeking
after that sweet golden clime Where the traveler’s journey is
done;” -William blake 'Ah sunflower'
Tone: The color of the general voice of a poem
=Goddamn
money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
-Catcher in the Rye
Understatement:to express something by not using lots of words.
=A
soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a
thing of beauty."
(Mark
Twain)
=And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain (Poe)
Allusion: to give a hint what will happen next (nondirectly)
='No more to build on there. And they, since they/ Were not the one dead, turned to
their affairs. (Out, out-)
Figurative language: expressing or describing things with lots of words ad expressions (non directly)
=Hear the mellow wedding bells. - Edgar Allen Poe
Free verse: writing a poem freely with out thinking about the rules.
=After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds;
After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,
Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,
Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship:
Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,
Waves, undulating waves—liquid, uneven, emulous waves,
Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves,
Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking, displaced the surface;
(After the Sea-Ship by Walt Whitman)
Hyperbole: over-statement, to exaggerate a thing or an event.
=It doesn't get better than this” (Oscar Meyer)
imagery: creatin pictures in readers minds by expressing and describing the event or thing alot.
=And
eyes of metallic grey,
Hard
and narrow and slit. (Edwin John Pratt)
Lyric: Lyric poetry is one of three genres of poetry; the other two are dramatic and narrative.
=James
DeFord
Italian
Sonnet by James DeFord,
written in 1997:
Turn
back the heart you've turned away
Give
back your kissing breath
Leave
not my love as you have left
The
broken hearts of yesterday
But
wait, be still, don't lose this way
Affection
now, for what you guess
May
be something more, could be less
Accept
my love, live for today.
Metaphor: to describe something by saying two different things are alike or same. (without using 'like') 'A is B'
=The
Sun Rising
“She
is all states, and all princes, I.” (John Donne)
Mood: feeing or atmosphere
="Once
upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary" or "And the silken sad
uncertain rustling of each purple curtain" - myterious (Poe)
Onomatopoeia: same part is repeateding the word expressing something. 'Moo moo'
= water
plops into pond
splish-splash
downhill
warbling
magpies in tree
trilling,
melodic thrill
whoosh,
passing breeze
flags
flutter and flap
frog
croaks, bird whistles
babbling
bubbles from tap
by Lee Emmett
Oxymoron: to express somethng by using two contradicting words. (Discrepancy)
="I
can resist anything, except temptation." - Oscar Wilde
paradox: just itself doesot make sense but as yu think about it, you get the meaning at it make sense.
=I
must be cruel to be kind." (hamlet)
Personification: Describing and expressing something that is not a human or alive as it has a characteristics of a
person.
=owl eyes spoke to meby the gate -The great gatsby
Repitition: to repeat something to make a rhyme and also emphasize it.
=My
conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And
every tongue brings in a several tale,
And
every tale condemns me for a villain."
(William
Shakespeare, Richard III)
Rhyme scheme: determining the rhyme pattern of a poem, and express it by using A pattern, B pattern and on.
=Whose
woods these are I think I know - a
His
house is in the village though - a
He
will not see me stopping here - b
To
watch his woods fill up with snow -a
(shakesphere's sonet)
Rhythm: repeating over a amount of time and giving a rhyme
=The
wind in her hair over there
The chair that sat with her hair
Eyes
on eyes
Fire
and lye
in
the river sky on I
Roses
are red (or white)
Violets
are blue
in
the sky
i
will tell you buy
Simile: expressing something that they are alike by using 'like' in the expression.
=So i stared at it, like Kant at his chruch steeple - The great gatsby
Stanza: one paragraph in a poem
=water
plops into pond
splish-splash
downhill
warbling
magpies in tree
-3 stanzas
Symbol: expressing something by representing something
=Ah
Sunflower, weary of time, Who countest the steps of the sun; Seeking
after that sweet golden clime Where the traveler’s journey is
done;” -William blake 'Ah sunflower'
Tone: The color of the general voice of a poem
=Goddamn
money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
-Catcher in the Rye
Understatement:to express something by not using lots of words.
=A
soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a
thing of beauty."
(Mark
Twain)