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Poetry unit:Review of Poetic Devices and
Figurative Language
Alliteration Repetition of initial consonant
sounds
Example: terrible truths and lullaby lies
Assonance Repetition of vowel sound
Example: mystery disguised within
Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds,
but not vowels
Example: gloomy woman
Imagery Language that evokes sensory images
Sight, sound, taste, feel, smell
Example: drip of ruby teardrops (sound)
Example: to wake up where the green grass grows (visual/sight)
Example: lips like cool sweet tea (taste)
Example: streaming through a velvet sky (touch)
Example: the stench of the underworld (smell)
Internal Rhyme Rhyming that occurs within the
line (rather than at the end)
Example: Piece of me emerges
Metaphor Comparison of unlike things made
without using like or as
Example: I am the “Lone Star”
Mood Emotional response/feelings of
reader based on atmosphere, word choice, and tone of poet
Personification Giving human qualities or
characteristics to animals or objects
Example: tears of amber fell from my soul
Rhyme A pattern of words that contains
similar sounds at the end of the line
Example: life for meis wild and free
Rhyme Scheme A repeated pattern of rhymed words at the end of a
line
Example: Lusty eyes (A)Passionate cries (A)Rich blood, (B)
Bitter sweat (c)
She/he loves (D)
And dies (A)
Similie Comparison using like or as
Example: notes dance across the page like stars twinkle in the night sky
Stanza A group of poetic lines (also called a
verse)
Example:
Like glistening sun
and moon like day and gloomy night like pure earth and gentle clouds transformation - life and death
Symbol An object or action that means
more than its literal meaning
Example: always open like a rosebud about to bloom (a young girl)
Tone An author’s attitude about a
subject or theme
“Mask” by Carl Sandburg FLING your red scarf faster and faster, dancer.
It is summer and the sun loves a million green leaves, masses of green.Your red scarf flashes across them calling and a-calling.The silk and flare of it is a great soprano leading a chorusCarried along in a rouse of voices reaching for the heart of the world.Your toes are singing to meet the song of your arms:
Let the red scarf go swifter.Summer and the sun command you.
Poetry and Pop Culture
Watch the following commercial.
Answer in your packet: Why do you think this poem has to do with
exercise and the Nike brand? What effect does it have on the viewer
(you)?