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[image]A poem that tells a story.
[image]Generally longer than the lyric styles of poetry b/c the poet needs to establish characters and a plot
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[image]Used to make an impact on the poem’s tone. Words or phrases are repeated throughout the poem.
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Close repetition of the same consonant sounds, preceded by different vowel sounds |
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Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words |
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Here comes summer,
Here comes summer,
Chirping robin, budding rose.
Here comes summer,
Here comes summer,
Gentle showers, summer
clothes.
[image]By Shel Silverstein
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Flash and flesh
Breed and bread
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If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
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[image]Words that imitate the sound they are naming OR sounds that imitate another sound
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A pattern of rhyme (usually end rhyme, but not always).Use the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually “see” the pattern.
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The Germ by Ogden Nash
A mighty creature is the germ,
Though smaller than the pachyderm.
His customary dwelling place
Is deep within the human race.
His childish pride he often pleases
By giving people strange diseases.
Do you, my poppet, feel infirm?
You probably contain a germ.
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[image]The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem. Ø
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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Gives human characteristics to things |
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Example of Personification
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The sun touched us with its warm fingers |
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She’s the happiest person in the universe!
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•A comparison between two unlike things
•Uses “like” or “as”
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The fog crept as a cat stalking its prey.
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•A comparison between two unlike things
•Does not use “like” or “as”
•Describes something as if it were something else
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The fog is a cat creeping slowly.
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