Attention all poets!
Please post your poetry term definitions and three examples here. We may later use this posting to study for a future quiz and final exam review (my apologies for bringing that up!) :)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Steinbeck
Mark Twain
Zora Neale Hurston
Ernest Hemingway
Alliteration
ReplyDeleteDef: The repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.
Ex 1) Dewdrops dancing down daisies
Ex 2) Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Ex 3) Five faint frogs feeling feverish
*and any other tongue twister* :)
Personification
ReplyDeleteDef: A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes.
Ex 1) Fear knoked on the door. I answered. There was no one there.
Ex 2) The camera loves me.
Ex 3) The sky was full of dancing stars.
Simile
ReplyDeleteDefinition: A figure of speech that makes an explicit comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles.
Examples:
1. Her love is like a red, red rose.
2. His smile is as bright as the sun.
3. Her heart is colder than ice.
Imagery: A set of mental pictures or images. The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas. Examples of imagery include: 1.Birds chirping in the cool autumn air. 2. Abundant flowers are in the field in Tennessee. 3. Chickens pecking at small seeds on the grainy sand of the farm.
ReplyDelete**** Imagery is a fun poetic device. If you have a good imagination, imagery can take you anywhere.:)
Epithet
ReplyDeleteDefinition: A word or phrase used to characterize a person, place, or thing.
Examples: stone-cold heart, blood-red sky, Alexander the Great
Synesthesia
ReplyDeleteThe description of a sense impression (smell, touch, sound, etc), but in terms of another seemingly inappropriate sense.
Ex 1) 'sunburnt mirth'
Ex 2) golden laughter
Ex 3) gray frown
Extended Metaphor
ReplyDeleteAn elongated metaphor; a comparison of to unlike things (without using like or as) that continues on through multiple sentences.
Examples:
1. Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune--without the words, And never stops at all,
2. Life the hound Equivocal Comes at a bound Either to rend me Or to befriend me. I cannot tell
3. Like a steel drum cast at sea my days, banged and dented by a found shore of ineradicable realities, sandsunk, finally, gaping, rustsunk in compass grass.
elegy- a mournful poem, or lament for the dead
ReplyDelete1. "The Raven"
2. "Anabel Lee"
3. "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
Onomatopoeia
ReplyDeleteThe formation or use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
Examples:
1. Woosh
2. Boom
3. Screech
Sonnet: a 14 line poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that is broken into two structures.
ReplyDelete1. The Italian Sonnet
"London, 1802"
Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:
England hath need of thee: she is a fen
Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen,
Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower,
Have forfeited their ancient English dower
Of inward happiness. We are selfish men;
Oh! raise us up, return to us again;
And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power.
Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart;
Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea:
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,
So didst thou travel on life's common way,
In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart
The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
2. The Spensarian Sonnet
"Sonnet LIV"
Of this World's theatre in which we stay,
My love like the Spectator idly sits,
Beholding me, that all the pageants play,
Disguising diversely my troubled wits.
Sometimes I joy when glad occasion fits,
And mask in mirth like to a Comedy;
Soon after when my joy to sorrow flits,
I wail and make my woes a Tragedy.
Yet she, beholding me with constant eye,
Delights not in my mirth nor rues my smart;
But when I laugh, she mocks: and when I cry
She laughs and hardens evermore her heart.
What then can move her? If nor mirth nor moan,
She is no woman, but a senseless stone.
3. The English/Shakespearian Sonnet
"Sonnet XXIX"
When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least,
Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate,
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings,
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Apostrophe
ReplyDeleteDefinition: Technique in which the writer addresses an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is either dead or absent.
Examples:
1) "Milton! thou shoudst be living at this hour"--William Wordsworth's Milton
2) World, in hounding me, what do you gain?"--Sor Juana Ines la Cruz's World In Hounding Me
3)"O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth"--William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
Metonymy
ReplyDeletedefinition: A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it.
Examples:
1. He went as far as to buy her a diamond ring.
2. We need a new glove at second base.
3. The White House isn't saying anything!
EXTENDED METAPHOR
ReplyDeleteAn imaginative comparison between two actions or objects which is not literally applicable.
Let's Meet Again
Our journey is a river
We had our steady flows
Our rocky shiver
The hallway echoes
Where the water goes.
We should meet in the sea
Regardless where you are
There lies a rock where we agree
That rock we share from close to far
We overcame that jagged bar.
Lets meet again where rivers cross
Utencils in hand to note the blast
Together we will get across
To splash those edges in contrast
Like steady streaming from the past.
Words
A man was given a bucket of seeds
To plant within His field
Each one to echo his deed
So his purpose be fulfilled.
Being that he had many
Not knowing where to start
Before the area was rainy
He proceeded with his part.
“So many seeds”
He thought
“Perhaps I shall drench the land”
He then poured wherever he sought
Dancing amidst the sand.
The crop turned very ail
Until the Farmer returned
He was given another pail
Those planted weeds were scorned.
This time the man saw
Planting his seeds with care
From his observance of the law
The cropper enjoyed his share.
Crossing the Bar
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;
For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crost the bar.
Consonant: the correspondence of consonants, those at the end of a word, repetition of sounds used as a rhyming device.
ReplyDeleteExamples:
Flip Flops
Ticktock
all mammals named Sam are clammy
Personification:
ReplyDeleteattribution of personality to an impersonal thing
Examples:
1. The sun kissed my hair
2. I see news travels quickly
3. The clouds roared and threw a streak of lightening
Rhyme: Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse.
ReplyDeleteExamples include:
1) End Rhyme:
I went to school full of joy,
Eager to meet each girl and boy.
2. Exact Rhyme:
cat and hat.
3. Slant Rhyme:
shark and heart
4. Internal Rhyme:
I was sad because my dad
Made me eat every beet.
Metonymy- A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it.
ReplyDeleteEx1) The pen is mightier then the sword.
Ex2) The suits on Wall Street walked off with most of our savings
Ex3) The broken heart sat across from me weeping for all to see
Assonance-rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words
ReplyDeleteEx1)“Each beach beast thinks that he’s the best beast, Which beast is best?” Excerpt from: West Beast East Beast
Ex2)Hear the mellow wedding bells,” From Edgar Allen Poe’s The Bells
Ex3)“On a proud round cloud in white high night”
From: E.E. Cummings
if a Cheer Rules Elephant Angel Child Should Sit
assonance:the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by diiferent consonant sounds, especially in words close together.
ReplyDeleteExamples:
1)The tide rises the tide falls, The twilight darkens the curlew calls
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
2)Ella left Laura weaving
3)English everyday eventually leads to poetry projects to the extreme.
Interior Monologue
ReplyDeleteDefinition: A passage of writing presenting a character's inner thoughts and emotions in a direct, sometimes disjointed or fragmentary manner.
EPITHET
ReplyDeleteDefinition: A characterizing word or phrase firmly associated with a person or thing and often used in place of an actual name or title.
Examples-
1. Man's best friend (Dog)
2. Alexander the Great (Megas Alexandros)
3. The Big Apple (New York City)
Dramatic Monologue: A poem in which a character speaks to one or more listeners
ReplyDeleteExamples:
1. "Prophyria's Love" by Robert Browning -
Porphyria's love: she guessed not how
Her darling one wish would be heard.
2. Act Three Scene Three of Shakespeare's Hamlet
O, this is hire and salary, not revenge.
He took my father grossly, full of bread;
With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May;
And how his audit stands who knows save heaven?
3. Siegfried Sassoon's "Night Attack"
And there were shouts and curses; someone screamed
And men began to blunder down the trench
Lyric Poem: A poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of a speaker.
ReplyDeleteExamples:
1. "Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter" by John Crowe Ransom
There was such speed in her little body,
And such lightness in her footfall,
It is no wonder her brown study Astonishes us all
Her wars were bruited in our high window.
We looked among orchard trees and beyond
Where she took arms against her shadow,
Or harried unto the pond
The lazy geese, like a snow cloud
Dripping their snow on the green grass,
Tricking and stopping, sleepy and proud,
Who cried in goose, Alas,
For the tireless heart within the little
Lady with rod that made them rise
From their noon apple-dreams and scuttle
Goose-fashion under the skies!
But now go the bells, and we are ready,
In one house we are sternly stopped
To say we are vexed at her brown study,
Lying so primly propped
2. "I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Died" by Emily Dickinson
I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.
The eyes beside had wrung them dry,
And breaths were gathering sure
For that last onset, when the king
Be witnessed in his power.
I willed my keepsakes, signed away
What portion of me I
Could make assignable,-and then
There interposed a fly,
With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,
Between the light and me;
And then the windows failed, and then
I could not see to see.
3. "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell
Had we but world enough, and time,
This coyness, lady, were no crime.
We would sit down and think which way
To walk, and pass our long love's day;
Thou by the Indian Ganges' side
Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide
Of Humber would complain. I would
Love you ten years before the Flood;
And you should, if you please, refuse
Till the conversion of the Jews.
My vegetable love should grow
Vaster than empires, and more slow.
An hundred years should go to praise
Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze;
Two hundred to adore each breast,
But thirty thousand to the rest;
An age at least to every part,
And the last age should show your heart.
For, lady, you deserve this state,
Nor would I love at lower rate.
But at my back I always hear
Time's winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song; then worms shall try
That long preserv'd virginity,
And your quaint honour turn to dust,
And into ashes all my lust.
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.
Now therefore, while the youthful hue
Sits on thy skin like morning dew,
And while thy willing soul transpires
At every pore with instant fires,
Now let us sport us while we may;
And now, like am'rous birds of prey,
Rather at once our time devour,
Than languish in his slow-chapp'd power.
Let us roll all our strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one ball;
And tear our pleasures with rough strife
Thorough the iron gates of life.
Thus, though we cannot make our sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
Term Apostrophe
ReplyDeleteex.) O Captan, My Captan by Walt Whitman
ex.) O Cell phone by Me
ex.)Belt o Belt by Me
Also Definition. Apostrophe- a poem that describes something that is not living or a thought or an idea.
ReplyDeleteTerm: Refrain
ReplyDeleteDefinition: a phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem, usually after each stanza
Examples:
1. "The Raven"
2. The chorus in a song is a refrain
3. Dr. Seuss books uses a lot of refrains
Imagery
ReplyDeleteThe creation of images using words. Poets usually achieve this by invoking comparisons by means of metaphor or simile or other figures of speech.
1. Though I was on the sheer face of a mountain, the feeling of swinging through the air was euphoric, almost like flying without wings.
2. Her blue eyes were as bright as the Sun, blue as the sky, but soft as silk.
3. The music coursed through us, shaking our bodies as if it came from within us.
Lyric Poem
ReplyDeleteTerm originally derived from the Greek word meaning 'for the lyre' and indicating verses that were written to be sung. However, more recently the term 'lyric' has been used to refer to short poems, often written in the 'I' form, where the poet expresses his or her feelings.
Excerpts from lyric poems:
1. Will pass from change to change,
And that from round to crescent,
From crescent to round they range?
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
Alone, important and wise,
And lifts to the changing moon
His changing eyes.
2. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
3. I deem that there are lyric days
So ripe with radiance and cheer,
So rich with gratitude and praise
That they enrapture all the year.
And if there is a God above,
(As they would tell me in the Kirk,)
How he must look with pride and love
Upon his perfect handiwork!
Interior Monologue: A narrative technique that records a character’s internal flow of thoughts, memories, and ideas.
ReplyDeleteEx1:“I know what's right and wrong for a girl to do. I get around, I read, I listen to my friends, and I have two older brothers to tell me what to do. I know it's becoming to wear slimming skirts and smart blouses, and stockings, and French-heeled shoes. And I know your hair should be kept neatly, with maybe a little bow at the top.”
Ex2: “For the first time, she felt alone. The rain poured down, trickling through her hair, insisting its way through her clothes. Would they be alright? Would they be able to sleep tonight without her near?"
Ex3: I got here on time, right? Ten o'clock is what he said, then why was he acting rude? I really hope he likes my resume. What if he makes me run errands or get the mail? I hope one day I'll be the editor-and-chief of the New York Times. I don't want to be stuck doing all the boring articles like obituaries in the magazine."
Metonymy: A figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it.
ReplyDeleteExamples:
1. Referring to a king or queen as "the crown"
2. Calling your car your "wheels"
3. Calling a pair of sunglasses your "shades"
Figurative language
ReplyDelete- A word or phrase that departs from everyday literal language for the sake of comparison, emphasis, clarity, or freshness. Metaphor and simile are the two most commonly used figures of speech, but things like hyperbole, synecdoche, puns, and personification are also figures of speech.
1. Go jump in a lake
2. Piece of Cake
3. Break a leg!
Figurative language
ReplyDelete-The use of words, phrases, symbols, and ideas in such a way as to evoke mental images and sense impressions.
1. Dress the turkey
2. She is a tower of strength
3. He is a pain in the neck
Consonance: the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession.
ReplyDeletepitter patter
all mammals named Sam are clammy
Lady lounges lazily
Synesthesia -
ReplyDeleteThe description of one kind of sense impression by using words that describe another.
1. sweet- Smelling silence
2. The DJ’s voice was silky smooth
3. Open on a mass of flowers basking in blue air
Dramatic Monologue - A piece of spoken verse that offers great insight into the feelings of the speaker.
ReplyDelete1. From Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" "That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder"
2. From William Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper" "Then naked & white, all their bags left behind,
They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind.
And the Angel told Tom, if he'd be a good boy,
He'd have God for his father & never want joy."
3. From Shakespeare's "Hamlet" "Now I might do it Pat, now he is praying; And now do I'll do't. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged."