Transcript Sensory Language
Elements of Poetry
Review
Sensory Language
Words that create or trigger sensory images in the reader’s mind.
sight, sound, smell, taste, & touch
Figurative Language
Words not meant to be interpreted literally
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
A comparison between two things without using “like” or “as”
“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” William Shakespeare
Juliet compared to the sun
Personification
Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
Who Has Seen the Wind?
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you.
But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I.
But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.
Christina G. Rossetti
Simile
A comparison of two things using the words “like” or “as”
Your eyes are like the brightest stars.
Your cheeks are aglow like the face of mars.
Sound Device
add meaning and feeling to writing through the use of sound
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
Rhyme
Meter
Alliteration
The repetition of the same beginning consonant sound in several words.
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.” The repetitive “p” sound creates alliteration.
Repetition
Restating a word or phrase multiple times.
Who Has Seen the Wind?
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you.
But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I.
But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by.
Christina G. Rossetti
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds in a word.
Go low and slow below the ridge
Consonance
The repetition of consonant sounds at the end of a word
“Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray” Dylan Thomas
Onomatopoeia
Words that imitate sound.
(Sound like what they mean)
The big dog barked with a bow, wow, wow.
The cat took off with a meow, meow, meow.
Rhyme
The repetition of both vowel and consonant sounds in words.
End Rhyme Rhymes at the end of a line of poetry Ex. So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Internal Rhyme Words within the same line rhyme Ex. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary
Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour, Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Robert Frost
Meter
A way of placing emphasis on words & syllables that create a repetitive rhythm.
The way we say a poem is like this.
Hyperbole
An overstatement or exaggeration meant to place emphasis
She said, “If I don’t give this kiss I’ll die.”