Poetry TerminologyPresented by: Mrs. Dunn

Goals and Goals and ObjectivesObjectives

Content Objective: Students will be able to

2.01- analyze informational materials; 5.01- study the characteristics of literary genres; 6.01- demonstrate an understanding of written and spoken expression

Language Objective: Students will

share opinions about poetry by answering questions on an anticipation guide

take notes on poetry terminology

write for 3 minutes about the characteristics about of similes

use the sentence frames “as ______________ as ___________________”, and “_____________________ like ___________________”

TERMSTERMS

Alliteration

Assonance

Hyperbole

Imagery

Irony

Metaphor

PersonificationOnomatopoeiaOxymoronRepetitionRhymeSimile

ALLITERATIONALLITERATION

Repetition of the same, initial consonant sounds

EXAMPLES: Soft Sighing of

the Sea

ASSONANCEASSONANCE

The repetition of the vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables.

EXAMPLE: As high as a kite in a bright sky

HYPERBOLEHYPERBOLE

A bold, deliberate overstatement not intended to be taken seriously. The purpose is to emphasize the truth of the statement.

EXAMPLES:

He weighs a ton.

I could eat a horse.

IMAGERYIMAGERY Usually these words or phrases create a

picture in the reader’s mind. Some imagery appeals to the senses (hearing, touch, taste, smell).

EXAMPLES: Sight – smoke mysteriously puffed out from his ears Sound – he could hear a faint but distant thump Touch – the burlap wall covering scraped his skin Taste – a salty tear ran down his cheek Smell – the scent of cinnamon floated into his nostrils

IRONYIRONY

the literary technique that involve differences between appearance and reality, expectations and result, or meaning and intention.

EXAMPLE: It was ironic that the police station was robbed. It was ironic that the Olympic swimmer drowned in

the bathtub. It was ironic that the soldier survived the war and

then was shot on his own front porch after returning home safely.

METAPHORMETAPHOR

A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken as though it were something else, a direct comparison of two unlike things.

EXAMPLE:

It is raining cats and dogs.

The clouds are marshmallows today.

PERSONIFICATIONPERSONIFICATION

a nonhuman object is given human characteristics

EXAMPLE:

The wind spoke her name.

The rain danced across the window.

ONOMATOPOEIAONOMATOPOEIA

The use of words that imitate sounds.

Buzz, Thud, Hiss, Woof, Quack

OXYMORONOXYMORON

The junction of words which, at first view, seem to be contradictory, but surprisingly this contradictions expresses a truth or dramatic effect.

EXAMPLES: Pretty ugly, Icy hot, civil war

REPETITIONREPETITION

The use, more than once, of any element of language – a sound, a word, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence.

EXAMPLE: By Edgar Allan Poe

By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells

Of the bells

Of the bells, bells, bells, bells

RHYMERHYME

Word endings that sounds alike

EXAMPLES:

Time, Slime, Mime

cat, fat, rat

SIMILESIMILE

A comparison using like or as.

EXAMPLES:

As brave as a lion

Dumb like an ox