Poetry terms

Prose-writing or speaking in ordinary forms .

Ex: We live in Flower Mound.

Poetry-a piece of literature written in meter or verse

Ex: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright in the forests of the night

What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry

Literal

The standard meaning of a word phrase or sentence

Ex the grass looks green

Figurative -departure from the standard meaning of a word to achieve some special meaning or effect.

Ex: Tye grass looks like spiky green hair

Hyperbole-an extreme exaggeration

I have a million things to do to day

Simile-a comparison of one thing with another by the use of th word like or as

Ex:life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you're going to get

Metaphor-a figure of speech in which a person object or idea is transformed

Ex:Time is a thief

Personification-granting human attributes to hings that are not human

Alliteration-the repetition of a constant sound at thebegenning of words to produce a noticeable effect

es:softly she snoozes

Wle te widworld whirls wildly

Never noticing

Rhythm-pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds in a line of poetry

He kindly stopped for me

The carrige held but just ourselves

And immortality

Onomatopoeia-a word whose sound imitates the actual sounds to priduce a noticeable effect.

Ex: boom snap crack smack whoosh

Imagery-the use of concrete details that appeal to the 5 senses

Cacophony-a succession of harsh,jolting sounds

Euphony- a succession of smooth harmonious sounds .

Rhyme-the repetition or word ending sounds

End rhyme-rhyme that comes at the end of lines.

Internal rhyme-ryme that occurs within a line.

Repetition-to occur over and over again

Verse-one line of poetry

Stanza-a grouping of lines in a poem