semester 2 english Flashcards
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Consonance
repitition of similar consonant sounds NOT first letter
Internal Rhyme
poetic device in which middle words and end words rhyme. Also called middle rhyme, since it comes in the middle of lines.
Example:
Once upon a midnight DREARY, while I pondered, weak and WEARY.
Assonance
Repitition of vowel sounds in a line
The Rain in Spain falls Mainly in the Plains
Enjambment
Practice of running lines of poetry on without punctuation (periods, commas, etc)
Annotations
Green- unknown words
Black - connections to TV, text and films. Modern day connections
Blue - touches you emotionally. Memories. Relates to you and you to others
Red - Literary devices What author wants me to know or feel and how he/she does it.
Simile
Figure of speech used to make a comparison more vivid. Uses words “like” or “as”
He is as strong as an ox
She swims like a fish
Her face turned as red as a tomato.
Personification
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
Slant Rhyme
rhyme formed by words with similar but not identical sound in last syllable
Alliteration
when two or more consonant sounds at the beginning of words are repeated in a line of poetry
Sally sells sea shells down by the sea shore
Some Smug Slug
Repetition
action of repeating something that has already been said or written
Iambic Pentameter
Form of poetry written by Shakespeare that had only 10 syllables per line and five stressed ones.
Poem made up of FIVE stressed syllables followed by one unstressed syllable.
Stanza
lines, usually four or more, that make up a poem
Metaphor
Comparison of two things WITHOUT using “like” or “as”
He has the courage of a lion.
She is drowning in money.
Tone
is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience.
Allusion
a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance.
Imagery
Relates sparks of the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell)
