STUDY GUIDE

POETRY

• Poetry is a type of writing use to create a strong image

PROSE

• Writing that used sentences and paragraphs

RHYME

• Lines in poems that ends in similar sounds

RHYME SCHEME

• In the end of each line ends in a similar sound as some of the rest of the lines in a patern

SIMILE

• Is when your sompare two unlike things using like or as

METAPHOR

• A metaphor is when you say something is something that is unlike

ANALOGY

• Is when one thing of two certain things are compared

PERSONIFICATION

• A personification is giving human like qualities to a inhuman thing

ALLUSION

• Is a reference to a thing

SYMBOLISM

• Is a symbol that symbols a certain group or person

POINT OF VIEW

• Point of view is a view from the reader in the story
• 1st person is when the story uses I, we, ect
• 3rd person is when the narrator used he she them.

THEME

• Theme is the central idea of the whole story

TONE

• Tone is the readers feelings toward the story

METER

• Is a pattern of of stressed and unstressed syllables

REPETITION

• Is repeating the same words a few times

ALLITERATION

• Is when the inital sound of a constant sound is repeated

ASSONANCE

• Is a repetition of a vowel sound

ONOMATOPOEIA

• Is a use of words that created sounds like splash bam or kabam

BAILAD

• A poem that tells a story in 2-4 lines

FREE VERSE

• A poem without a rhyme

HAIKU

• A poem that is very short with three lines with 17 syllables

LIMERICK

• A short poem with 5 lines and a regular meter rhyme scheme

LYRIC POEM

• A short poem that focuses on the readers feeling mainly

ODE

• A poem with 2 or more stanzas with similar qualities and each end of the line has to rhyme with the other Line

SONNET

• A poem with 14 lines 10-12 syllables per line
• Developes through the poem and 2-6 lines are questions