Transcript Poetry-Terms-and-Review

Reviewing Poetry
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women
merely players;
They have their exits and their
entrances;
And one man in his time plays
many parts
As You Like It
Poetry is an emotional response to life using
figurative language.
An hour before the
worshipp’d sun
Peered forth the golden
window of the east
Romeo and Juliet ACT I
Scene 1.
Personification is a type of figurative
language that gives life to inanimate objects.
Other types of Figurative Language
Simile-Two things are compared
using “like” or “as.”
“I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix'd and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament."
--From Julius Caesar (III, i, 60 – 62)
Metaphor—Direct comparison of unlikes
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks;
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Romeo and Juliet
Alliteration—Repetition of initial consonant
sounds in successive word.
Done to death by slanderous tongue
Was the Hero that here lies"
--From Much Ado About Nothing (V, iii, 3-4)
Apostrophe—Words that are spoken to a
person who is absent or imaginary, or to an
object or abstract idea.
O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified!
Romeo and Juliet. ACT II Scene 4.
Onomatopoeia—The use of words to
suggest sounds.
The moan of doves in immemorial elms,
And murmuring of innumerable bees.
Tennyson
Poetry Devices
Rhyme—The occurrence of the same or
similar sounds in two or more words
 Rhyme scheme—The pattern of end rhyme
in a poem

O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! A
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night A
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
B
B
Organizational Devices in Poetry
Verse—A line of poetry
Couplet—Two lines of rhymed poetry.
Shakespeare often used the “capping
couplet” to end a scene, to show the exit of
an important character, to end an important
speech.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the
mind; ("a" rhyme)
And therefore is winged Cupid painted
blind.
Stanza—An organizational pattern of verse.
Quatrain—A four line stanza or poem.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
A
Thou art more lovely and more temperate. B
Rough winds do shake the daring buds of May A
And summer’s lease hath all to short a stay. B