POETIC TERMS

1. POETIC TERMS 1st Year English

2. Figurative language Literal language You are annoying me You’re doing my head in!

3. SETTING The time (both the time of day and period in history) and place in which the action of a literary work takes place.

4. SETTING “Tiger! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night”

5. SETTING in this poem • November • Season = winter • Night • Edinburgh

6. IMAGERY The use of concrete details that appeal to the five senses.

7. IMAGERY Cold, wet leaves floating on moss-colored water.

8. What are the 5 senses?

9. Touch Smell Hearing Taste Sight

10. What image corresponds to each sense in this poem?

11. November Night, Edinburgh The night tinkles like ice in glasses. Leaves are glued to the pavements with frost. The brown air fumes at the shop windows, Tries the door, and sidles past.

12. ALLITERATION The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.

13. ALLITERATION “Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship”

15. I gulp down winter raw. The heady Darkness swirls with tenements. In a brown fuzz of cotton wool Lamps fade up crags, die into pits. Frost in my lungs is harsh as leaves Scraped up on paths. — I look up, there, A high roof sails, at the mast-head Fluttering a grey and ragged star. The world’s a bear shrugged in his den. It’s snug and close in the snoring night. And outside like flowers The fog unfolds its bitter scent. Lungs / leaves Shrugged /snug / snoring

16. ASSONANCE The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant.

17. ASSONANCE “. . .that hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.”

18. I gulp down winter raw. The heady Darkness swirls with tenements. In a brown fuzz of cotton wool Lamps fade up crags, die into pits. Frost in my lungs is harsh as leaves Scraped up on paths. — I look up, there, A high roof sails, at the mast-head Fluttering a grey and ragged star. The world’s a bear shrugged in his den. It’s snug and close in the snoring night. And outside like Chrysanthemums The fog unfolds its bitter scent. Cotton / Wool Lamps fade

19. SIMILE A direct comparison between two basically different things. A simile is introduced by the words “like” or “as”.

20. SIMILE My love is like a red, red rose.

21. METAPHOR An implied comparison between two basically different things. Is not introduced with the words “like” or “as”.

22. METAPHOR His eyes were daggers that cut right through me.

23. Can you find examples in the poem?

24. November Night, Edinburgh The night tinkles like ice in glasses. Leaves are glued to the pavements with frost. The brown air fumes at the shop windows, Tries the door, and sidles past. Simile Verb Noun Adjective

25. I gulp down winter raw. The heady Darkness swirls with tenements. In a brown fuzz of cotton wool Lamps fade up crags, die into pits. Frost in my lungs is harsh as leaves Scraped up on paths. — I look up, there, A high roof sails, at the mast-head Fluttering a grey and ragged star. The world’s a bear shrugged in his den. It’s snug and close in the snoring night. And outside like Chrysanthemums The fog unfolds its bitter scent. SIMILE METAPHOR

26. PERSONIFICATION Human characteristics are given to non-human animals, objects, or ideas.

27. PERSONIFICATION My stereo walked out of my car.

28. November Night, Edinburgh The night tinkles like ice in glasses. Leaves are glued to the pavements with frost. The brown air fumes at the shop windows, Tries the door, and sidles past. Noun Verb The air tries the door The air sidles past

29. Form • the form of a poem is the physical • arrangement • of the words • on the page

30. CONSONANCE The repetition of consonant sounds that are preceded by different vowel sounds.

31. CONSONANCE “Wherever we go Silence will fall like dews”

32. ONOMATOPOEIA The use of words whose sounds suggest the sounds made by objects or activities.

33. Other examples: buzz, hum, kiss ONOMATOPOEIA “Blind eyes could blaze like meteors”

34. END RHYME The repetition of identical sounds at the ends of lines of poetry.

35. END RHYME “He clasps the crag with crooked hands Close to the sun in lonely lands” from “The Eagle”

36. INTERNAL RHYME The repetition of identical sounds within a line of poetry.

37. INTERNAL RHYME “We three shall flee across the sea to Italy.” Or “Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour.”

38. SYMBOL/SYMBOLISM Something concrete, such as an object, action, character, or scene that stands for something abstract such as a concept or an idea.

39. Both phrases are symbols that stand for death. SYMBOL/SYMBOLISM “Do not go gentle into that good night Rage, Rage against the dying of the light”

40. THEME The main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work.

41. THEME • Civilization vs. Savagery • The central concern of Lord of the Flies is the conflict between two competing impulses that exist within all human beings: the instinct to live by rules, act peacefully, follow moral commands, and value the good of the group against the instinct to gratify one’s immediate desires, act violently to obtain supremacy over others, and enforce one’s will. This conflict might be expressed in a number of ways: civilization vs. savagery, order vs. chaos, reason vs. impulse, law vs. anarchy, or the broader heading of good vs. evil.

42. REPETITION The repeating of a sound, word, phrase, or more in a given literary work.

43. REPETITION “I sprang to the stirrup, and Jarvis, and he; I galloped, Derrick galloped, we galloped all three”

44. MOOD The overall atmosphere or prevailing emotional feeling of a work.

45. MOOD “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”