2. speaker: A person who delivers a speech or lectures.
Diction:The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or
writing.
The style of enunciation in speaking or singing.
Imagery:Visually descriptive or figurative language.
Allusion:An expression designed to call something to mind with-
out mentioning it explicitly;an indirect or passing reference.
Simile: figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing
with another thing of a different kind.
Personification:The attribution of a personal nature or human
characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of
an abstract quality in human form.
Metaphor:Figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied
to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
Refrain:Repeated line or number of lines in a poem or song, typi-
cally at the end of each verse.
Symbol:something that represents or stands for something else.
Stanza: a group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit
in a poem; a verse.
Alliteration:the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the be-
ginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
Onomatopoeia: the formation of a word from a sound associ-
ated with what is named
Enjambment:the continuation of a sentence without a pause be-
yond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza
Connotation:an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to
its literal or primary meaning
Denotation:the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast
to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests
Euphemism:a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for
one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to some-
thing unpleasant or embarrassing
Tone:a musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, qual-
ity, and strength
Hyperbole:exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be
taken literally.
Poetic devices
4. I really like food
Puppies are extremely cute
Please get me some food
HAIKU
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three lines of five, seven, and
five.
5. i am short and hungry
i wonder if the chicken or the egg came first
i hear sizzling
i see flavor
i want food
i am short and hungry
i pretend eating a sandwich
i feel hungry
i touch my imaginary sandwich
i cry over world hunger
i am short and hungry
i understand that lunch isn’t for another hour
i say we should get snacks
i dream food rains from the sky
i try to be patient
i hope time goes faster
i am short and hungry
“I am poem”
I made up this poem when i was hungry
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6. So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
Or as sweet-season'd showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found;
Now proud as an enjoyer and anon
Doubting the filching age will steal his treasure,
Now counting best to be with you alone,
Then better'd that the world may see my pleasure;
Sometime all full with feasting on your sight
And by and by clean starved for a look;
Possessing or pursuing no delight,
Save what is had or must from you be took.
Thus do I pine and surfeit day by day,
Or gluttoning on all, or all away.
SONNET I FOUND
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a poem of fourteen lines us-
ing any of a number of formal
rhyme schemes, in English
typically having ten syllables
per line.
9. The majestic long neck
herbivore and all
Ate the grass with glee
FREE VERSE
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poetry that does not rhyme or
have a regular meter.
10. 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.
ODE
11. The players on the field go
hit and catch
hit and catch
hit and catch
The players on the field go
hit and catch
all through the game
PARODY
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an imitation of the style of a
particular writer, artist, or
genre with deliberate exaggera-
tion for comic effect
