1 / 5

Poetry Unit Vocabulary

Poetry Unit Vocabulary. 8 th Grade Literature Bethany Howard, Ed.S. Textbook Page 670. Rhythm: the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables Elegy: a poem for someone who has died Meter: a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

Download Presentation

Poetry Unit Vocabulary

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. Poetry Unit Vocabulary 8th Grade Literature Bethany Howard, Ed.S.

  2. Textbook Page 670 • Rhythm: the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables • Elegy: a poem for someone who has died • Meter: a regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables • Rhyme: the repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together • end rhymes: rhymes at the end of lines • Couplet: when two rhyming line are consecutive

  3. Textbook page 670 (continued) • internal rhymes: rhymes that occur within lines • exact rhymes: rhymes which end in the exact same sound • approximate rhymes: sounds that are similar but not exactly the same • Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds in several words that are close together • Assonance: repeated vowel sounds • Onomatopoeia: the use of words that imitate sounds or suggest their meaning

  4. Textbook Page 672 • Imagery: language that appeals to our senses • Symbol: something that has meaning in itself and also stands for something else • figures of speech: words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of another and are not meant literally • Similes: compare two unlike things using words such as like, as, than, and resembles • Metaphor: makes a comparison without using a connecting word • Extended Metaphor: when poets carry a metaphor over several lines • Personification: a nonhuman thing or inanimate thing is described as if it had human or lifelike qualities

  5. Textbook Page 673 • Lines: used in poetry instead of sentences • Stanzas: used in poetry instead of paragraphs • Narrative Poem: poems that tell stories • Ballad: is a song or songlike poem that tells stories • Epics: long narrative poems, originally passed down by word of mouth, that tell about heroes who embody the values of the culture recounting the tale • Lyric Poems: usually do not tell a story instead they express personal thoughts and feelings of the poet or the speaker (poem’s narrator) • Sonnet: a specific type of lyric poem that is always 14 lines long and usually has a specific type of meter • Odes: long, lyric poems that were traditionally written to celebrate a famous person or lofty idea • Free-Verse Poems: do not follow regular meter or rhyme scheme, but they do include other elements of poetry such as rhythm, figures of speech, and alliteration

More Related