• Definition: a group of lines from a poem

• Example:

"I'm nobody! Who are you?"

by Emily Dickinson

I'm nobody! Who are you?Are you nobody, too?Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!How public, like a frogTo tell your name the livelong dayTo an admiring bog!

• Definition: two consecutive rhyming lines

• Examples:

"I'm nobody! Who are you?"

by Emily Dickinson

I'm nobody! Who are you?Are you nobody, too?Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!How public, like a frogTo tell your name the livelong dayTo an admiring bog!

• Definition: a pattern of end rhymes in a poem

• Examples:

– Shakespearean:abab/cdcd/efef/gg

– Petrarchan:abba/abba/cdecde

"I'm nobody! Who are you?"

by Emily Dickinson

I'm nobody! Who are you?Are you nobody, too?Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!How public, like a frogTo tell your name the livelong dayTo an admiring bog!

• Definition: repetition of consonant sounds in several words that are close together

• Examples:– The creepy

creature crawled toward Craig.

• Definition: Comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”

• Examples:• Fast as a cat• Slow as a turtle• Smelly as manure• Clean as a window• Dangerous as a

bomb• Safe as a lock• Jumpy as a

kangaroo

• Definition: a comparison of two unlike things without “like” or “as”

• Examples:– Her heart is stone.– Her eyes are

diamonds.

• Definition: Any language using the five senses

• Examples: -Sight: Shiny-Taste: Sour-Touch: Rough-Hear: Whispering-Smell: Stinky

Definition:

Words whose sounds imitate their meaning.

Examples:

BOOM, CRASH,

BANG, RING

• Definition: a songlike poem that often tells a sad story

• Examples:– “The Dying

Cowboy”

• Definition: a poem that expresses the personal feelings of the speaker

• Examples:– “You Don’t Know

What You’re Getting Into”

– “Valentine for Ernest Mann”

• Definition: a long narrative poem about the deeds of a great hero

• Examples:

– “Beowulf”

• Definition: a 14-line lyric poem that follows strict rules of structure, meter, and rhyme

• Examples:– Shakespearean

sonnet: “Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day”

• Definition: a long lyric poem, usually praising a person or thing

• Examples:– “Ode to My Feet”– “Ode to a Frog”

• Definition: a poem mourning a person’s death

• Examples:– “An Elegy for

Anne Frank”– “O Captain, My

Captain”

• Definition: a poem without a regular rhyme scheme or meter

• Examples:– “I Hear America

Singing”

• Definition: the message or moral of a story or poem

• Examples:– Don’t judge a

book by its cover.– A brave person

can accomplish the unexpected.

• Definition: a person, place, or thing that has a deeper meaning

• Examples:

– Heart = love

– Dove = peace

• Definition: an exaggeration

• Examples:

– The elephant weighed a million pounds!

– She talks on the phone forever!

• Definition: the way a writer uses language

• Examples:

– Edgar Allen Poe:• Uses lots of

dashes & exclamation points

• Definition: the speaker’s attitude about his/her subject

• Examples:

In Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech, he speaks passionately about civil rights.

I have a dream!

• Definition: the feelings the reader gets when reading a poem or story

• Examples:– The “The Tell-

Tale Heart” is scary and intense.