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POETIC TERMS
1st Year English
Literal
language
You are annoying
me
Figurative
language
You’re doing
my head in!
The time (both the time of
day and period in history)
and place in which the
action of a literary work
takes place.
“Tiger! Tiger!
burning
bright
In the forests
of the night”
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November
Season = winter
Night
Edinburgh
The use of concrete
details that appeal to
the five senses.
Cold, wet
leaves floating
on mosscolored water.
What are
the 5
senses?
Touch
Smell
Hearing
Taste
Sight
What image
corresponds
to each
sense in
this poem?
November Night, Edinburgh
The night tinkles like ice in glasses.
Leaves are glued to the pavements with
frost.
The brown air fumes at the shop windows,
Tries the door, and sidles past.
The repetition of
consonant sounds at
the beginnings of
words.
“Swiftly,
swiftly flew
the ship”
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I gulp down winter raw. The heady
Darkness swirls with tenements.
In a brown fuzz of cotton wool
Lamps fade up crags, die into pits.
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Frost in my lungs is harsh as leaves
Scraped up on paths. — I look up, there,
A high roof sails, at the mast-head
Fluttering a grey and ragged star.
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The world’s a bear shrugged in his den.
It’s snug and close in the snoring night.
And outside like flowers
The fog unfolds its bitter scent.
Lungs / leaves
Shrugged /snug
/ snoring
The repetition of similar
vowel sounds followed
by different consonant.
“. . .that
hoard, and
sleep, and
feed, and
know not me.”
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I gulp down winter raw. The heady
Darkness swirls with tenements.
In a brown fuzz of cotton wool
Lamps fade up crags, die into pits.
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Frost in my lungs is harsh as leaves
Scraped up on paths. — I look up, there,
A high roof sails, at the mast-head
Fluttering a grey and ragged star.
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The world’s a bear shrugged in his den.
It’s snug and close in the snoring night.
And outside like Chrysanthemums
The fog unfolds its bitter scent.
Cotton / Wool
Lamps fade
A direct comparison between
two basically different things.
A simile is introduced by the
words “like” or “as”.
My love
is like a
red, red
rose.
An implied comparison
between two basically
different things. Is not
introduced with the words
“like” or “as”.
His eyes
were
daggers that
cut right
through me.
November Night, Edinburgh
The night tinkles like ice in glasses.
Leaves are glued to the pavements with
frost.
The brown air fumes at the shop windows,
Tries the door, and sidles past.
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I gulp down winter raw. The heady
Darkness swirls with tenements.
In a brown fuzz of cotton wool
Lamps fade up crags, die into pits.
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Frost in my lungs is harsh as leaves
Scraped up on paths. — I look up, there,
A high roof sails, at the mast-head
Fluttering a grey and ragged star.
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The world’s a bear shrugged in his den.
It’s snug and close in the snoring night.
And outside like Chrysanthemums
The fog unfolds its bitter scent.
Human characteristics are
given to non-human
animals, objects, or ideas.
My stereo
walked
out of my
car.
November Night, Edinburgh
The night tinkles like ice in glasses.
Leaves are glued to the pavements with
frost.
The brown air fumes at the shop windows,
Tries the door, and sidles past.
The air tries the door
The air sidles past
• the form of a poem is the physical
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arrangement
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of the words
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on the
page
The repetition of
consonant sounds that
are preceded by
different vowel sounds.
“Wherever
we go
Silence will
fall like
dews”
The use of words whose
sounds suggest the sounds
made by objects or
activities.
Other examples:
buzz, hum, kiss
“Blind
eyes could
blaze like
meteors”
The repetition of
identical sounds at the
ends of lines of poetry.
“He clasps the crag
with crooked hands
Close to the sun in
lonely lands”
from “The Eagle”
The repetition of
identical sounds within
a line of poetry.
“We three shall flee across the sea to Italy.”
Or
“Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.”
Something concrete, such as an
object, action, character, or
scene that stands for something
abstract such as a concept or an
idea.
Both phrases are symbols that
stand for death.
“Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, Rage against the dying of the light”
The main idea or
underlying meaning
of a literary work.
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Civilization vs. Savagery
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The central concern of Lord of the
Flies is the conflict between two
competing impulses that exist within
all human beings: the instinct to live
by rules, act peacefully, follow moral
commands, and value the good of
the group against the instinct to
gratify one’s immediate desires, act
violently to obtain supremacy over
others, and enforce one’s will. This
conflict might be expressed in a
number of ways: civilization vs.
savagery, order vs. chaos, reason
vs. impulse, law vs. anarchy, or the
broader heading of good vs. evil.
The repeating of a
sound, word, phrase, or
more in a given literary
work.
“I sprang to the stirrup, and Jarvis, and he;
I galloped, Derrick galloped, we galloped all three”
The overall atmosphere
or prevailing emotional
feeling of a work.
“It was the
best of times,
it was the
worst of
times.”