Unit 3- Poetic Terms

What is alliteration

• figurative language in which non-human things or abstractions are represented as having human qualities

• a repeating cadence/meter that enriches or emphasizes words, phrases, lines, and even whole verses of poems

• the repetition of the same sounds at the beginning of two or more adjacent words or stressed syllables

• 1. - a humorous, frequently bawdy, verse of three long and two short lines rhyming = aa-bb-a

What is Rhyme

• the pattern of rhyming lines (e.g., ABAB, ABBA)

• two words or lines that end in the same sound (rhythmic patterns that emphasize sound)

• the general character or attitude of a place, piece of writing

• - two lines of verse, usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit

What is Rhythm

• regular patterns that emphasize sound

• a repeating cadence/meter that enriches or emphasizes words, phrases, lines, and even whole verses of poems.

• a rhyme within the same line of verse

• division of a poem composed of two or more lines characterized by meter, rhyme, and number of lines

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

What is meter

• a rhyme within the same line of verse

• the pattern of rhyming lines

• regular patterns that emphasize sound

• the basic rhythmic structure in verse, composed of stressed and unstressed syllables. The movement of words in a poem.

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

What is internal rhyme

• an intentional and extreme exaggeration for emphasis or effect

• a rhyme within the same line of verse

• - two words or lines that end in the same sound

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Rhyme Scheme

• two words or lines that end in the same sound

• regular patterns that emphasize sound

• the pattern of rhyming lines (e.g., ABAB, ABBA)

• - a repeating cadence/meter that enriches or emphasizes words, phrases, lines, and even whole verses of poems

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

Hyperbole

• a subtle comparison in which the author describes a person or thing using words that are not meant to be taken literally

• an intentional and extreme exaggeration for emphasis or effect

• - the use of language to create mental images and sensory impressions

• a comparison of two things that are essentially different, usually using the words like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.5A

Imagery

• the use of language to create mental images and sensory impressions

• a comparison of two things that are essentially different, usually using the words like or as

• - figurative language in which non-human things or abstractions are represented as having human qualities

• a subtle comparison in which the author describes a person or thing using words that are not meant to be taken literally

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Metaphor

• - a comparison of two things that are essentially different, usually using the words like or as

• figurative language in which non-human things or abstractions are represented as having human qualities

• a subtle comparison in which the author describes a person or thing using words that are not meant to be taken literally

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Simile

• an intentional and extreme exaggeration for emphasis or effect

• a subtle comparison in which the author describes a person or thing using words that are not meant to be taken literally

• figurative language in which non-human things or abstractions are represented as having human qualities

• a comparison of two things that are essentially different, usually using the words like or as

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5A

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.W.11-12.2D