The components to Reading Poetry:
1) Word Choice (Diction): an author's choice of words
Denotation: the dictionary definition
Connotation: the emotional associations, etc. surrounding a word
2) Tone: the author's attitude toward the subject and/or audience
3) Imagery: the use of sensory details to provide vividness to a work of literatureJ4K (Just for Kix):
Sight= Visual
Smell= Olfactory
Taste= Gustatory
Hearing= Aural
Touch= Tactile
Movement= Kinetic
simile: direct comparison of two essentially unlike objects/ideas on basis of some shared quality
EX: "Her face was like a clown's-- with way too much make-up."
metaphor: a transformation of one thing/idea into it's comparison
EX: "Thine eyes are the deep, blue boundless heaven." (Shakespeare)
hyperbole: exaggeration/overstatement
EX: "I told you a thousand times!"
understatement: the opposite of a hyperbole; calls less than what's called for
EX: ?!? I've never heard of an understatement.
litotes (pronounced Lie-tuh-tees): a type of understatement where an affirmative is made by negating the opposite
EX: "I'm never not happy."
personification: a figure of speech where an abstraction/idea/animal/inanimate object is given human qualities
EX: "The mice danced with joy; El Gato was dead!"
apostrophe: a figure of speech in which the speaker addresses an abstract idea/inanimate object
EX: "O death, where is thy sting?" (The Bible)
metonymy: a specific word is used in place of another; these two words are closely related.
EX: "The White House issued a statement." (The actual building doesn't do anything, but represents the federal government."
synecdoche: part of something is used to represent a whole
EX: "Give me a hand." (Means to help me out, not to actually chop off ur hand and give it to me)
paradox: a statement that is seemingly self-contradictory but eventually makes sense
EX: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." (Dickens)
oxymoron: seemingly opposite/contradictory ideas/terms are combined
EX: "Parting is such sweet sorrow..." (Shakespeare)
5) Symbolism: something relatively concrete used to suggest something relatively abstract;
6) Irony: if u don't know what this is, ur screwed.
7) Sound Devices: used to give the poem a sense of rhythm, etc.
8) Rhythm and Meter: exact repetition of sound in the final accented syllables of 2+ words
Internal Rhyme: rhyme that occurs withina line of poetry
slant rhyme: rhymes in which the vowel sounds are nearly, but not exactly the same (Think of the times when you were look of rhyming words, thought of one, and then your friend told you that they didn't rhyme, even though they had the same letter, etc.) (aka: near rhyme, partial rhyme, half-rhyme)
Feminine rhyme: a rhyme that ends on an unstressed syllable
EX: "Calling" & "Ending"
Masculine rhyme: rhymes that end on a stress
EX: "Today" and "Hurray"
eye rhyme: they LOOK like they rhyme, but they SOUND like.. THEY DONT.
rhyme scheme: the pattern of rhyme throughout a poem
EX:
"Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me,
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea."
(Excerpt from "Croosing the Bar", by Alfred Tennyson)
Rhyme scheme is ABAB
Repetition
Alliteration: repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words or within words
EX: "Pampered pink princess pout prettily." (Think tongue-twisters)
Assonance: repetition of similar vowel sounds
EX: "I sigh, I cry, Why?"
Consonance: the repetition of consonant sounds that are preceded by a different vowell sound.
"All must Kill the Dell computer."
Onomatopoeia: the use of words whose sounds actual actual sounds
EX: "Ka-POW!" (punch) "BANG!" "BOOM!" "buzzzzzzz...."
9) Stanzas and Divisons
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ALL RIGHTIE, THEN. I'm guten. I'll post some more later, i think..
Anyhoo, STUDY HARD YOU GUYS!! 3 DAYS UNTIL JUDGEMENT DAY!
