Poetry Notes

Poetic Techniques

• Rhyme scheme- The ordered patter of ryhmes at the ends of a poem or verse.
• Ex- True friends are by your side
• Through it all
• True friends are there
• to catch you when you fall
• Rhyme scheme pattern- (A, B, C, B)
• Meter- A stressed and under stressed syballic pattern in a verse or within the lines of a poem. Stressed syllables tend to be longer and unstressed shorter.
• Ex- COMPREHEND
• Unstressed
• Unstressed
• Stressed

Figurative Language

• Personification- A figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human charecteristics.
• Ex- "The moon gazed on my windows, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness. I pursued nature to her hiding-places."
• Idiom- The term refers to a set expression or a phrase comprising 2 or more words. The phrase is understood as to mean something quite different from what indivisual words of the phrase would imply.
• Ex- feeling under the weather
• you could have knocked me down with a feather
• it was like a bolt out of the blue, when I met you
• an English rose, in the flower of youth

Figurative Language (2)

• Hyperbole- A figure of speech involving an exaggeraion of ideas for the sake of emphsis.
• Ex- The kings nose was three feet long
• My dad can lift over two tons
• The food was so hot my ears were smoking
• That boy runs faster than my car
• He cried so long he must have made a lake
• Word position- The use of varying lengths in lines of poetry to help create or enhance the meaning. (Shows relationships between words and ideas.)
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