Slide 1Metaphor Metaphor Metaphor compares two different things by speaking of one in terms of the other. Unlike a simile or analogy, metaphor asserts that one thing is another…

Slide 1Mexican poet Octavio Paz believes that “the poem is an original and unique creation, but it is also reading and recitation: participation.” Paz’s point is that…

Slide 1 Slide 2 The repetition of initial identical consonant sounds or any vowel sounds in successive or closely associated syllables, especially stressed syllables. Example…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Imagery Descriptive language that appeals to the five senses. There are five types of imagery you need to know… Slide 3 Imagery (cont.) Visual Imagery-…

Slide 1 Poetry: Elements & Key Terminology The words needed to articulately discuss a poem. Slide 2 1. alliteration  Alliteration is the repetition of the same or…

Slide 1 University Bound English: For Kids Who Care Literary Terms and Devices Selected from A Handbook to Literature, 8 th Edition by William Harmon and Deano Andrico Slide…

Slide 1 Free-Verse Poetry Slide 2 What is Free-Verse? ◊ A definition: Verse composed of variable, usually unrhymed lines having no fixed metrical pattern ◊First used…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Rhetorical Devices What are they and why are they used? Slide 3 Rhetorical Devices What is a rhetorical device? What is a rhetorical device? A technique an…

Slide 1 Choices Individualism & Integrity Unit Sophomore English Slide 2  A work in which the characters and events are to be understood as representing other things…

Poetic Terms Poetic Terms Unlocking the poem Alliteration The repetition of initial identical consonant sounds or any vowel sounds in successive or closely associated syllables,…