Poetry- A kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal to our emotions and imaginations.
Ex- If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold that no fire can ever warm me; I know that it is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that it is poetry. ~Emily Dickinson
Alliteration- The repetition of the same consonant sounds in words that are close together in a poem. Ex- Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and a flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. ~ From “the Raven,” Edgar Allan Poe
Assonance- The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds. Ex- Thou foster child of silence and slow time ~ From “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” John Keats
Consonance- All the meanings, associations, or emotions that a word suggests. Ex- Skinny and slender both have the same literal definition- thin; but their connotations are completely different.
End Rhyme- Rhymes at the end of lines. Ex- My last defense
Is the present tense.
It little hurts me now to know
I shall not go
Cathedral-hunting in Spain
Nor cherrying in Michigan or Maine. ~ Gwendolyn Brooks
Internal Rhyme- Are rhymes in the middle of a line. Ex- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
~ From “The Raven,” Edgar Allan Poe
Onomatopoeia- Created by words that imitates the sound of an object. Ex- Crackle, pop, fizz, click, zoom, and chirp
Repetition- The act or process or an instance of repeating or being repeated. Ex- By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells
Of the bells
Of the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells
In the clamor and the clangor of the bells! ~ From “bells,” Edgar Allan Poe
Rhyme- The repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them, in