Poetry

=**Poetry Terms for the Exam**=

Figurative Language
Examples: He was the rock of our relationship, always steady and strong. We sought to escape the prison that was our home. No man is an island —John Donne
 * Metaphor** - A direct comparison between two unlike things.

Examples: My love is like a red, red rose —Robert Burns You are like a hurricane: there's calm in your eye, but I'm getting blown away —Neil Young
 * Simile** - An indirect comparison between two unlike things using like or as.

Examples: The wind whispered my past to me with no regard for my present state of mind. As if to confirm what we saw, the town siren wailed up the scale of a treble pitch and remained there, screaming. -Harper Lee
 * Personification** - Giving a human trait to non-human things.

Examples: If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. -Emily Dickinson This backpack weighs a ton!
 * Hyperbole** - Excessive exaggeration.

Sound Effects
Examples: I saw lingering, late and lightless/ A single swan, swinging, sleek as a sequin. -W.R. Rodgers, "The Swan" Quentin sat quietly during quidditch.
 * Alliteration** - The repetition of initial consonant sounds.

Examples: And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side/ Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride. -Edgar Allen Poe, "Annabel Lee" K__ee__p the m__ea__t sw__ee__t, pl__ea__se, and I will __ea__t.
 * Assonance** - The repetition of vowel sounds in close proximity in a line.

Examples: "...a__s__ in guy__s__ she gently sway__s__ at ea__se__" Lock the back door before tickling the duck.
 * Consonance** - The repetition of consonant sounds in close proximity.

Examples: pop! snap. Drizzle. Murmuring.
 * Onomatopoeia** - The use of language that sounds like what it means.