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Poetry Terminology Presented by: Mrs. Tenney

 Alliteration

 Personification

 Assonance

 Onomatopoeia

 Hyperbole

 Oxymoron

 Imagery

 Repetition

 Irony

 Rhyme

 Metaphor

 Simile

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Meet the Presenter 

Mrs. Tenney

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6th year at KAHS

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Enjoys reading and writing poetry!

RESOURCES 

Academy of American Poets Website  http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/17105

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Multimedia Resources  http://magnussonllc.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/pimp-mypresentation-alliterations/  Microsoft Office Clipart Galley

ALLITERATION 

Repetition of the same, initial consonant sounds

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EXAMPLES: Soft Sighing of the Sea

ASSONANCE 

The repetition of the vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables.

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EXAMPLE: As high as a kite in a bright sky

HYPERBOLE 

A bold, deliberate overstatement not intended to be taken seriously. The purpose is to emphasize the truth of the statement.

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EXAMPLES: He weighs a ton, I could eat a horse

IMAGERY 

Usually these words or phrases create a picture in the reader’s mind. Some imagery appeals to the other four senses (hearing, touch, taste, smell).

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EXAMPLES:  Sight – smoke mysteriously puffed our from his ears  Sound – he could hear a faint but distant thump  Touch – the burlap wall covering scraped his skin  Taste – a salty tear ran down his cheek  Smell – the scent of cinnamon floated into his nostrils

IRONY 

The general name given to the literary techniques that involve differences between appearance and reality, expectations and result, or meaning and intention.

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EXAMPLE:  It was ironic that the police station was robbed.  It was ironic that the Olympic swimmer drowned in the bathtub.  It was ironic that the soldier survived the war and then was shot on his own front porch after returning home safely.

METAPHOR 

A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken as though it were something else, a direct comparison of two unlike things.

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EXAMPLE: It is raining cats and dogs

PERSONIFICATION 

Figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics

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EXAMPLE: The wind spoke her name

ONOMATOPOEIA 

The use of words that imitate sounds.

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Buzz, Thud, Hiss, Woof, Quack

OXYMORON 

The junction of words which, at first view, seem to be contradictory, but surprisingly this contradictions expresses a truth or dramatic effect.

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EXAMPLES: Pretty ugly, Icy hot

REPETITION 

The use, more than once, of any element of language – a sound, a word, a phrase, a clause, or a sentence.

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EXAMPLE: By Edgar Allan Poe

By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells Of the bells Of the bells, bells, bells, bells

RHYME 

Word endings that sounds alike

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Internal Rhyme – rhyme within a line

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EXAMPLES: Time, Slime, Mime

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Internal Rhyme – Scornfully scaly snake which held his very fate

SIMILE 

A comparison using like or as.

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EXAMPLES: As brave as a lion, As dumb as an ox

MORE INFORMTAION If you’d like to learn more about poetry , please refer to Mrs. Tenney’s Moodle page. The website is: http://ecougar.kasd.org/