POETRY UNIT
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- alliteration
- Repitition of consonant sounds; example: Lauren licks lollipops
- free verse
- doesn't have a regular pattern
- imagery
- language appealing to the senses
- internal rhyme
- rhyme occuring within a line of poetry
- rhythm
- refers to the rise and fall of our voices as we use language
- meter
- regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
- scanning
- marking of unstressed and stressed syllables in a poem
- rhyme
- repitition of vowel sounds
- end rhyme
- rhyme occuring at the end of a line
- sight rhyme
- words appear to rhyme, but dont; ex: cough/tough
- slant rhyme
- almost rhymes, but not excatly ex: leave/live, broken/lonesome
- rhyme scheme
- pattern of rhymes ex: abbaccdc
- limerick
- a humorous five lined poem that has a regular meter aabba
- onomatopeia
- words that sound like their meaning; ex: snap crackle pop!
- lyric poetry
- a song like poem that expresses the speakers feelings
- narrative poetry
- poem that tells a story
- mood
- the overall emotion created by a work of literature; ex: sad, happy, scary, romantic
- tone
- the attitude that a writer takes toward the audience, a subject, or a character
- personification
- where an un-human thing takes on human qualities. ex: wind runs, dog talks
- climax
- high point in action
- parody
- a take on something; ex: Simpson's "The Raven"
- stanza
- a group of lines in a poem, like a paragraph
- simile
- a comparison using like or as
- metaphor
- a comparison not using like or as
- "Jabberwocky"
- Lewis Carroll
- "The Runaway"
- Robert Frost
- "I'm Nobody"
- Emily Dickinson
- "Madam and the Rent Man"
- Langston Hughes
- "Annabell Lee"
- Edgar Allan Poe
- About Emily Dickinson
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1) Became a recluse
2) Wanted to be a nobody - About Poe
- 1) Went through many people close to him dying of TB