Poem Words. Flashcards
Used to make such comparisons using connecting words as in, “The sky is a like a patchwork quilt.”
Similie
What do poets use to compare two apperantly unlike things without using the words like, as, than, or resemblance, as in “The sky is a patch work quilt.”
Metaphor
Language that attributes human qualities to non-human things
“The wind dance in the trees.”
Personification
The use of a word whose sound inmates it’s meaning
Ex. Buzz, sizzle, thud, & hiss.
Onomatopoeia
Descriptive language poets use to create word pictures, or IMAGES.
Imegary
Provides details related to the senses.
Sensory language
To achieve a musical quality.
Sound Devices
A pettern created by the stressed and unstressed syllables of words in sequence.
Rythhm
A controlled pattern of Rythhm
Meter
The repetition of identical or similar sounds in stressed syllables.
Rhyme
A pattern of end rhyme is called…
A rhyme scheme
Has no set meter or rhyme scheme.
Free verse
The repetition of the initial consonant sounds of words as in the phrase “dark days”
Alliteration
The repitition of vowel sounds in near by words, as in the phrase, “child of silence
Assonance
The repitition of consonants with I nearby words in which the separating vowels differ, as in the phrase “live and love”
Consonance
