images images are pictures (with words): “the sky was blood red, and the dust made the plains look...
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Images
• Images are pictures (with words):
“The sky was blood red, and the dust made the plains look like a giant beach with no water in sight.”
Figures of Speech
• Language that makes connections between dissimilar (different) things
• Personification• Simile• Metaphor
Stanzas
• Groups of Lines in a Poem
“I rise to makefour prayers of
thanksgiving forthis fine clear day,”
Simile
• Compares two unlike things, using a specific word of comparison such as “like” or “as.”
He was as big as a mountain.
Metaphor
• Directly compares two unlike things without the use of a specific word of comparison.
He is a mountain of a man!
Extended Metaphor
• A metaphor developed or extended through several lines.
This mountain of a manStood over everything around him,
Blocked out the sunAnd rumbled in bad weather
Tone
• The way a writer feels about a subject.
My school was dark and cold,And it was like we studied in a cave
full of alumni’s bones,with trolls for teachers…
Imagery
• Language that appeals to the senses.
“How thin and sharp is the moon tonight!How thin and sharp and ghostly white
Is the thin curved crook of the moon tonight.”
End rhyme
• Rhymes that occur at the end of two or more lines:
“Moldy melons, dried-up mustard,Eggshells mixed with lemon custard”
Rhyme Scheme
• The pattern of rhymes in a poem:Example of an abcb poem:
Roses are red,Violets are blue,This class stinksAnd so do you…
Alliteration
• Repetition of a consonant sound in words that are close together:
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Onomatopoeia
• Use of words with sounds that echo their meaning:
• Pow, Bang, clickety clack, varoom…
Couplet
• Two lines in a row that rhyme and express a complete thought:
I think that I shall never seeAnything as lovely as a tree.