1.Alliteration: use of repeated consonants or stresses syllables, especially at the beginning of words.
E.g." Five miles meandering with a mazy motion."
2.Allusion: figure of speech that makes a reference to a place,person, or something that happened.
E.g. "The girl's love of sweets was her Achilles heel."
3.Figurative language: describing something by comparing it with something else.
E.g. "Alright, the sky misses the sun at night. "
4.Free verse: poetry that does noy rhyme or have a regular meter.
E.g. "I can't believe I'm so high
feeling like a queen
I stretch my arms out to the sides "
5.Hyperbole: Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
E.g. "I've told you a million times"
6. Imagery: appealing to the senses.
E.g. "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May"
7.Lyric: a short poem of songlike quality.
E.g. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"
8.Metaphor: figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison.
E.g. "The streets were a furnace
The sun an executioner"
9. Mood: overall feeling of the poem, this can be created by the tone or by the language choicesof the poem.
E.g. "I'm sick
Not pain filled headache sick"
10 Onomatopoeia: The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
E.g. "I heard the ripple washing in the reeds"
11.Oxymoron: a multiple part word or phrase that contradicts its self.
E.g. "Ralph, if you're gonna be a phony
You might as well be a real phony"
12. Paradox: A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true.
E.g. "I'm a compulsive liar
Do you believe them or not?"
13.Personification: inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as posessing human form.
E.g. "The wind stood up and gave a shout"
14. Repition: an instance of using a word, phrase, or clause more than once in a short passage.
E.g." When parrots do it
It's parrotting"
15.Rhyme Scheme: identify or close similarity of sound between accented syllables.
E.g. "Whose woods these are I think i know
His house is in the village though"
16.Rhythm: the sense of movement in speech, marked by the stress, timing, and quantity of syllables.
E.g. "When the dog bites
When the bee stings"
17.Simile: two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usully in a phrase introduced by like or as.
E.g. She dealt with moral problems as a clear deals with meat"
18.Stanza: A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem.
E.g. "Blah Blah Blah
Blah blah blah"
19.Symbol: something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention.
E.g. "We sew,sew,prick out fingers
dull out sight, producing what?
A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary."
20.Tone: The attitude of an author.
E.g. "Goddam money.
It always ends up making you blue as hell"
21.Understatement: A disclosure of statement that is less than complete.
E.g. "Some say the world will end in fire.
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
E.g." Five miles meandering with a mazy motion."
2.Allusion: figure of speech that makes a reference to a place,person, or something that happened.
E.g. "The girl's love of sweets was her Achilles heel."
3.Figurative language: describing something by comparing it with something else.
E.g. "Alright, the sky misses the sun at night. "
4.Free verse: poetry that does noy rhyme or have a regular meter.
E.g. "I can't believe I'm so high
feeling like a queen
I stretch my arms out to the sides "
5.Hyperbole: Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
E.g. "I've told you a million times"
6. Imagery: appealing to the senses.
E.g. "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May"
7.Lyric: a short poem of songlike quality.
E.g. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"
8.Metaphor: figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison.
E.g. "The streets were a furnace
The sun an executioner"
9. Mood: overall feeling of the poem, this can be created by the tone or by the language choicesof the poem.
E.g. "I'm sick
Not pain filled headache sick"
10 Onomatopoeia: The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
E.g. "I heard the ripple washing in the reeds"
11.Oxymoron: a multiple part word or phrase that contradicts its self.
E.g. "Ralph, if you're gonna be a phony
You might as well be a real phony"
12. Paradox: A seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true.
E.g. "I'm a compulsive liar
Do you believe them or not?"
13.Personification: inanimate objects or abstractions are endowed with human qualities or are represented as posessing human form.
E.g. "The wind stood up and gave a shout"
14. Repition: an instance of using a word, phrase, or clause more than once in a short passage.
E.g." When parrots do it
It's parrotting"
15.Rhyme Scheme: identify or close similarity of sound between accented syllables.
E.g. "Whose woods these are I think i know
His house is in the village though"
16.Rhythm: the sense of movement in speech, marked by the stress, timing, and quantity of syllables.
E.g. "When the dog bites
When the bee stings"
17.Simile: two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usully in a phrase introduced by like or as.
E.g. She dealt with moral problems as a clear deals with meat"
18.Stanza: A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem.
E.g. "Blah Blah Blah
Blah blah blah"
19.Symbol: something that represents something else by association, resemblance, or convention.
E.g. "We sew,sew,prick out fingers
dull out sight, producing what?
A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary."
20.Tone: The attitude of an author.
E.g. "Goddam money.
It always ends up making you blue as hell"
21.Understatement: A disclosure of statement that is less than complete.
E.g. "Some say the world will end in fire.
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
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