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Poetry Terms “Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.” ~Thomas Gray “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” ~Robert Frost Sound Devices Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds at any place in a series of words Do you like blue? We viewed the movie about mooing rookies at the school. “Well he seemed so low that I couldn’t say no” –Robert Service (“The Cremation of Sam McGee, pg. 709) Sound Devices cont. Alliteration: The repetition of a sound at the beginning of a series of words “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers…” “Rain races, ripping like wind. Its restless rage rattles like rocks ripping through the air.” A fly and a flea flew up in a flue. Said the fly to the flea, “What shall we do?” “Let’s fly,” said the flea. “Let’s flee,” said the fly. So they fluttered and flew up a flaw in the flue. Sound Devices cont. Consonance: The repetition of a consonant sound at any place in a series of words. I dropped the locket in the thick mud. Eric liked the black book “And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain.” –Edgar Allen Poe Sound Device cont. Onomatopoeia: The use of words whose sound makes one think of its meaning Wham! Bonk! Ding-dong “Cuckoo” Tick-tock “snap, crackle, pop” Figurative Language Simile: A comparison of two nouns using the words like or as “My love for you is like a red, red rose” Metaphor: A comparison of two nouns saying that one thing is another “All the world is a stage” Idiom: An expression that is like a saying. When it’s translated literally, it makes no sense “Easy as pie” Figurative Language cont. Hyperbole: Extreme exaggeration The books weigh a ton. I could sleep for a year. I have a million things to do. Personification: When a non-living object has been given qualities of a person The wind whispered through the trees The moon danced on the water “Oreo: Milk’s favorite cookie.” Figurative Language cont. A Symbol: a person, place,