EXPLORING POETRY ALLITERATION Repetition of consonant sounds Once

EXPLORING POETRY

ALLITERATION Repetition of consonant sounds. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.

ASSONANCE Repetition of vowel sounds. Repetition of long or short vowel sounds helps portray atmosphere and mood. - Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers Early Moon, Carl Sandburg “Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that noman knows how and why the first poems came. ”

IMAGERY Appealing to the senses. • It was dark and dim in the forest. • The children were screaming and shouting in the fields. • He whiffed the aroma of brewed coffee. • The girl ran her hands on a soft satin fabric. • The fresh and juicy orange is very cold and sweet.

TO AUTUMN, JOHN KEATS “Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies; And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn; Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft, And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. ”

METAPHOR - "Time is a thief. " - "She is doing a tightrope walk with her grades this semester. " - "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief. "

ANALYZING METAPHOR "Sympathy", Paul Lawrence Dunbar I know why the caged bird beats his wing / Till its blood is red on the cruel bars; / For he must fly back to his perch and cling / When he fain would be on the bough a-swing; / And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars / And they pulse again with a keener sting– / I know why he beats his wing!

SIMILE - “Elderly American ladies leaning on their canes listed toward me like towers of Pisa. ” Lolita, Nabokov. I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. - William Wordsworth

PERSONIFICATION When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. - Wordsworth Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of woe. - Milton

SYMBOLISM • Used to convey specific meaning to the audience. Aligns with tone and theme of the poem. "To the Moon", Percy Shelley Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth, And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?

TONE The expression of the speaker's attitude towards the subject or audience. DUST OF SNOW, ROBERT FROST The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.

TONE TAG One of these is you! ***Need to put list tones on the sticky notes here***

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