4. Section 1
Definitions
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1. Speaker- Person who reads the poem
2. Diction- style of speaking or writing as dependent upon choice of word
3. Imagery- Explanation with a picture
4.Allusion- Explanation to bring something to mind without explicitly.
5. Simile- Figure of speech to compare things.
6. Personification- Attribution of human nature.
7. Metaphor- Figure of speech in Which a word or phrase is applied to a object.
8. Refrain- A repeated line or number of lines in a poem
9. Symbol- Something that stands for something else
10. Stanza- A group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit in a poem
11. Alliteration- The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected
words.
12. Onomatopoeia- The use of such words for rhetorical effect
13. Enjambment- The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause.
let the groove get in.
14. Connotation- An idea or feeling that a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
15. Denotation- An Explosion
16. Euphemism- The expression so substituted.
17. Tone- an accent peculiar to a person, people, locality, etc., or a characteristic mode of sounding words in
speech.
18. Hyberbole- An extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally poetics. done
10. 9
I Am
Austin Willett
I am intelligent and spectacular
I wonder where Ross is
I hear peoples’ whispers
I want to drink from the fountain of youth
I am intelligent and spectacular
I pretend to dumb
I feel like I’m floatin’
I touch Joshy
I cry about EVERYTHING ;’)
I am intelligent and spectacular
I understand that Ross is 12
I say “I am Awesome!”
I dream that one day Ross will get older
I try to be not a loser like Josh Sharp
I hope Elijah gets better
I am intelligent and spectacular
11. Chapter 5
Sonnet
A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal
rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per
line.
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Not the round natural world, not the deep mind, (A)
The reconcilement holds: the blue abyss (B)
Collects it not; our arrows sink amiss (B)
And but in Him may we our import find. (A)
The agony to know, the grief, the bliss (B)
Of toil, is vain and vain: clots of the sod (C)
Gathered in heat and haste and flung behind (A)
To blind ourselves and others, what but this (B)
Still grasping dust and sowing toward the wind? (B)
No more thy meaning seek, thine anguish plead, (D)
But leave straining thought and stammering word, (E)
Across the barren azure pass to God: (C)
Shooting the void in silence like a bird, (E)
A bird that shuts his wings for better speed. (D)
In deepest pitch this wilderness is pure.
Though mini-marts and parking lots may swell,
the wired gods of green will lend a cure:
Only those gone insane will be made well,
Only those who lack vision made to see.
So mark ye well the height and breadth of shame
That blinded Oedipus; for none are free.
That torched Icarus, where is the flame.
And winged Daedalus will rise again
With pinions forged of steel and eyes ablaze.
So strong and yet so frail like the eggs of a hen
We wander, mapless, through the treacherous maze
Eyes often sightless to vivid beauty
Our guilty senses lie in mutiny.
13. Chapter 6
Concrete
Poem
Concrete poetry or shape poetry is poetry in which
the typographical arrangement of words is as
important in conveying the intended effect as the
conventional elements of the poem, such as
meaning of words, rhythm, rhyme and so on
15. Chapter 7
Acrostic
Poem
A poem or series of lines in which certain letters,
usually the first in each line, form a name, motto, or
message when read in sequence.
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Coming home from school,
Owls chirp cheerfully.
On my way from school,
Luck has came my way.
19. Chapter 9
Ode
A lyric poem in the form of an address to a
particular subject, often elevated in style or manner
and written in varied or irregular meter.
20. Chapter 10
Parody
An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist,
or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic
effect.
