UNIT 2 POETRY

SOUND EFFECTS

ALLITEATION-

• The repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of two or more adjacent words or stressed syllables
• Examples Sara Saw Sam Sitting by the School door.

RHYME-

• Two words or lines that end in the same sound
• (Rhythmic patterns that emphasize sound )

ONOMATOPOEIA

• The use of words that sound like what they mean ( buzz and purr);
• a poetic device to produce this effect

RHYME SCHEME

• The pattern of rhyming lines ( ABAB ABBA)
• Ex roses are RED, Violets are BLUE
• Ex 2 You are SWEET, I love YOU

ASSONANCE

• The repetition of vowel sounds in words close together
• D a vid m a de his w a y to the l a ke

REPETITION

• A repeating cadence/meter that enriches or emphasize
• Words, phrases,lines, and even whole verse of poems

LITERARY LANGUAGE AND DEVICE

HYPERBOLE

• An intentional and extreme exaggeration for
• Emphasis or effect
• Ex: this book weighs a ton

METAPHOR

• A subtle comparison in which the author
• Describes a person or thing using words that are not
• Meant to be taken literally
• Ex: the speaker compares himself to a tall ugly weed

SIMILIE

• Makes a comparison between two unlike
• Things using LIKE OR AS
• Ex: " his freckles looked like someone flicked
• Splotches of paint at him."
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PERSONIFICATION

• Non-human things or abstractions are
• represented as having human qualities
• Ex: the mud grabbed my shoe

IMAGERY

• The use of language to create
• Mental images and sensory impression

APORISM

• A concise statement go a general truth
• Or principle
• Ex: a penny saved is a penny earned

EPIGRAPH

• A quotation at the beginning of
• A literary work to introduce its theme

GRAPHIC AND STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS

LINE BREAK

• The intentional end of a line of poetry

REFRAIN

• Group of words repeated at key intervals in poetry

STANZA

• Division of a poem composed of two or more
• Lines characterized by meter,rhyme,and number
• Of lines
• Ex: couplet: a 2-line stanza ; quatrain ; a
• 4-line stanza quatrain; a 5-line stanza sestet a 6-line stanza

POETIC FORMS

LYRICAL POETRY

• Short poems expressing personal feelings
• And emotions that maybe meter set to music and
• Often involves the use of regular

NARRATIVE POETRY

• Poetry that tells a story to entertain

FREE VERSE

• Poetry composed of rhymed/unrhymed lines
• That have no set patterns

SONNET

• A lyric poem that consists of 14 lines
• Which usually have one or more conventional

SUMMARIZE

• To reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main idea

SYNTHESIZE

• Combine different ideas & facts to facts
• To reach a new whole

PARAPHRASE

• Restate the meaning of something
• In different words

COMPLEX INFERENCES ABOUT TEXT

COMPLEX INFERENCE

• Goes beyond the explicit text.a complex
• Inference can be a subtle inference

SUBTLE INFERENCE

• Is one in which the bits of information
• Are not as easily connected

DRAWING CONCLUSION

• A form of inference in which the reader
• Gathers information considers the general
• Thoughts or ideas the emerge from the
• Information and comes to a decision the
• conclusion is generally based on more than one piece of information

EXCERPT

• A section from a whole book
• Or section from a large
• Piece of literature

EFFECTIVE READER

• Establish a purpose for reading:
• P-persuade:l-inform:E-entertain

GRAMMAR

SUBORDINATE CONJUNCTION

• A clause that cannot stand alone as a
• Complete sentence ex: since,so,while,
• Although,As,before,because,when,while,if,unless
• Since I have seen the movie a hundred times, the
• Story was not new to me .

CAPITALIZATION

• Beginning of a sentence; name
• Of a person, place ,or things

VERB TENSE

PERFECT TENSE

PRESENT PERFECT

• They have waled.

PAST PRESENT

• They had waled.

FUTURE PRESENT

• They will have walked.

PROGRESIVE TENSE

PRESENT PERFECT

• He is standing by the door.

PAST PRESENT

• He was standing by the door.

FUTURE PRESENT

• He will be standing by the door.