9th English Poetry

Figurative Language – language that uses figures of speech (to say one thing but mean another)

Simile – compares one thing to another using the word like or as

Metaphor – compares one thing to another

Personification – gives human characteristics to an animal, object or idea

Alliteration - the repetition of initial consonant sounds

Inverted Word Order – changes the subject-verb-complement pattern of normal word order in English to draw attention to the complement

Rhyme Scheme – regular pattern of the rhyming words at the end of each line in a poem

Poetic Contractions – words in which a letter is replaced by an apostrophe

Diction – word choice

Elevated Diction – formal diction

Symbol – an object, person, or idea that represents something beyond itself

Imagery – the descriptive or figurative language used in literature to create word pictures for the reader (sight, sound, taste, touch, smell or movement)

Tone – writer’s attitude toward his or her audience and subject

I am poem

　

FIRST STANZA

I am (2 special characteristics you have)

I wonder (something of curiosity)

I hear (an imaginary sound)

I see (an imaginary sight)

I want (an actual desire)

I am (the first line of the poem repeated)

SECOND STANZA

I pretend (something you actually pretend to do)

I feel (a feeling about something imaginary)

I touch (an imaginary touch)

I worry (something that bothers you)

I cry (something that makes you sad)

I am (the first line of the poem repeated)