November 13th

 Reminder:  There is a QUIZ in English class on Wednesday, November 18th.  In case you lost your notes:

Concrete_poem:

Concrete poetry experiments with the very materials of the poem itself: words, letters, format. The final product does what it says in that the meaning of the poem is demonstrated through some kind of concrete image made with words, letters, etc. Concrete poems rely heavily on the visual or phonetic to get across their meaning. 

Free_verse:

Poetry that has no regular pattern of rhythm, rhyme or line length. 

Sonnet:

14 lines written in iambic pentameter.  The rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

Alliteration:

Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of a series of words. 

Onomatopoeia:

Words that sound like what they mean.“Buzz”, “hiss”, “splash” are typical examples.

Metaphor:

A direct comparison between two unalike things that does not use “like”, “as”, or “than”.

Personification:

Giving human characteristics to non-human things.

Simile:

A comparison between two unalike things, using “like”, “as”, or “than”.

Allusion:

When the author makes reference to a well-known person, place, event, etc.  

Mood:

The feelings created by the poem in the reader.

Repetition:

Intentionally repeating words or phrases.

Symbol:

Using an object or an action to mean something other than it’s literal meaning.  One thing represents the other.

Tone:

The author’s attitude towards the subject.  The “voice” the writer is using.

Hyperbole:

An obvious exaggeration, often humorous.

Couplet:

Two lines of successive poetry that rhyme.

Quatrain:

Four lines of poetry

Stanza:

A “verse” or a “paragraph” of poetry.

Blank_verse:

Unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter.

Iambic_pentameter:

A line of poetry that is ten syllables in length.  The syllables follow a pattern of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.  An iamb is two syllables, and “penta” means five, so the pattern is repeated five times for a line of 10 syllables total.

Rhyme_scheme:

The pattern of rhyme in a poem, indicated with letters of the alphabet. To decide on a rhyme scheme, you assign a letter of the alphabet to all rhyming words at the ends of lines of poetry, starting with the letter “a”. When you run out of one rhyme sound, you start with the next letter of the alphabet. For example, the following is an example of an aabb rhyme scheme (star, are, high, sky): 

Twinkle, twinkle, little star

 How I wonder what you are 

Up above the world so high

 Like a diamond in the sky 

Rhythm:

The pattern of sound in a poem.  It is the beat of the poem.

Assonance:  

The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry.