Nonverbal aspects of speech (facial expression, gestures, posture)
Prosodic Features
Verbal aspects of speech (pausing, pitch, stress, volume, tempo)
Supplementary Features
Fillers (etcetera), conjunctions, exclamations
Content Level
Literal meaning of utterance
Feeling Level
Contextual meaning of an utterance
Utterance
Most basic unit of speech (begins and end with distinct pause)
Environment
Combination of natural social and cultural milieus
Nonlinear Illustrations
Combination of written text and visual elements
Literary techniques
An author's specific means of expressing ideas and feelings
Apostrophe
Something or someone is addressed by the speaker in the poem; it may be an abstract concept, an object, or a place; it may be an absent or dead person (e.g., Oh my lovely Star!)
Hyperbole
Uses an exaggerated statement (e.g., a smile that lasts for a lifetime)
Imagery
Sensory details that help readers make a mental picture or imagine ideas, people, settings, or the subject of the poems; the words used appeal to the different senses: sight, smell, sound, touch, taste
Metaphor
A direct comparison between two ideas or things (e.g., "Life is a rollercoaster," "The world is a book")
Simile
Involves comparison between two ideas or things that uses "as" or "like" (e.g., "O my Luve, is like a red, red rose"-Robert Burns)
Nonfluency features - unvoiced pauses or voiced pauses like umm
common terms in poetry - stanza, theme, purpose, tone, mood
alliteration - makes use of words beginning with the same consonant sound
assonance - repetition of vowel sounds
rhyme - use of words that end with the same or similar sounds at the end of two lines
onomatopoeia - use of words that imitate sound they represent
