Poetry

• Personification is the giving of human traits to nonhuman things
• Personification is the giving of human traits to nonhuman things
• imagery is a word or phrase to stimulate your memory into imagining a picture
• repetition are important words or phrases that are repeated
• repetition are important words or phrases that are repeated
• alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds close together
• alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds close together
• rhythm is the beat in a poem to make it sound like a song
• rhyme is similar sounding words
• onomatopoeia is the sound a thing makes
• direct address is used to draw people in as if they are being spoken to directly
• direct address is used to draw people in as if they are being spoken to directly
• stanza is a section of a poem
• stanza is a section of a poem
• enjambment is when a line runs onto the next with no punctuation
• enjambment is when a line runs onto the next with no punctuation
• fricative is the alliteration of 'f' or 'v' sounds
• fricative is the alliteration of 'f' or 'v' sounds
• plosives are aggressive sounds: p, b, g, k, t, d
• plosives are aggressive sounds: p, b, g, k, t, d
• pathetic fallacy is when the environment reflects the mood
• pathetic fallacy is when the environment reflects the mood
• anaphora is a repeated word or phrase on consecutive lines
• anaphora is a repeated word or phrase on consecutive lines
• modal verbs express possibility and certainty
• modal verbs express possibility and certainty
• sibilance is the repetition of s sounds
• sibilance is the repetition of s sounds
• juxtaposition are 2 things placed together in a sentence to contrast each other
• juxtaposition are 2 things placed together in a sentence to contrast each other
• couplet - 2 lines
• couplet - 2 lines
• tercet - 3 lines
• tercet - 3 lines
• quatrain - 4 lines
• quatrain - 4 lines
• lexical set is a group of words with the same topic, function or form
• lexical set is a group of words with the same topic, function or form
• Semantic field is a set of words that are related in meaning
• Semantic field is a set of words that are related in meaning