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• meant to be recited & their distinct FLOW, RHYTHM, and TONE add up to the flair and beauty of oral tradition

  poetry
• a type of poem that doesn't need to be grammatically correct

  Poetic License
• Involves the use of vivid and descriptive language to create MENTAL PICTURES or SENSORY EXPERIENCES for the reader.

  Imagery
• 5 types of imagery


  Visual Imagery, Auditory Imagery, Olfactory Imagery, Gustatory Imagery, Tactile Imagery
• Creates mental pictures or visual representations


  Visual Imagery
• Engages the sense of hearing and uses words and phrases to evoke specific sounds or noises

  Auditory Imagery
• appeals to the sense of smell by describing scents or odors in the poem

  Olfactory Imagery
• descriptive language that appeals to the sense of taste

  Gustatory Imagery
• engages the sense of touch


  Tactile Imagery
• language that communicates ideas BEYOND the LITERAL MEANING of words


  Figurative Language
• A comparison without using like or as


  Metaphor
• A comparison of two different things that are similar in some way

  Analogy
• A comparison using "like" or "as"

  Simile
• exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally

  Hyperbole
• A contrast between expectation and reality

  Irony
• Three types of Irony

  verbal, situational, dramatic
• A figure of speech that combines opposite or contradictory terms in a brief phrase.


  Oxymoron
• a statement that appears at first to be contradictory.

  Paradox
• a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa

  Synecdoche
• Metonymia "change of name" or "misnomer" A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it

  Metonymy
• allusia " a play on words" A reference to another work of literature, person, or event


  Allusion
• an exact opposite or the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas.

  Antithesis
• A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry

  Meter
• each metrical foot consists of two syllables: one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.

  Iambic Pentameter
• one stressed syllable followed by 1 unstressed syllable.

  Trochaic Pentameter
• is the repetition of similar sounds, usually at the end of lines in a poem.

  Rhyme
• forming of words by imitating the sound the word is referring to.


  Onomatopoeia
• repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

  Alliteration
• repeated consonant sounds in the middle or at the end of words.


  Consonance
• repeated vowel sounds in words.

  Assonance
• the omission of a syllable or a sound where it is actually in order to have those sounds there


  Elision