Simile
A comparison of two apparently unlike things using like, as, than, or resembles
Metaphor
To compare two apparently unlike things without using the words like, as, than or resembles; the description of one thing as it were another
Personification
Language that attributes human qualities to nonhuman things
Paradox
A situation that seems contradictory but actually expresses the truth
Onomatopoeia
The use of a word whose sound imitates the meaning
Imagery
Descriptive language used to create word pictures
Sensory language
Provides details relating to senses
Stanzas
Grouping of lines
Couplets
Two lines
Quatrains
Four lines
Sound devices
Used to achieve musical quality
Rhythm
The pattern created by stressed and unstressed syllables of words in sequence
Meter
A controlled pattern of rhythm
Rhyme
The repetition of identical sounds in stressed syllables
Rhyme schemes
A pattern of end rhymes
Free verse
Has no set meter or rhyme scheme
Alliteration
The repetition of initial consonant sounds of words
Assonance
The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words
Consonance
The repetition of consonants in nearby words in which the separating vowels differ
Repetition
The use of any language element used more than once
Narrative poem
Writer tells a story in verses
Epic
A long narrative poem about gods or heroes
Ballad
A songbooks narrative about an adventure or romance
Dramatic poem
A writer tells a story using a characters own thoughts or statements
Lyric
Author expresses feeling of a single speaker
Haiku
Contains three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables
Sonnet
A fourteen line lyric poem
Simile
The morning sun is like a red rubber ball
Metaphor
The morning sun is a red rubber ball
Personification
The sea was angry that day
Paradox
The more things change, the more they stay the same
Onomatopoeia
Buzz and hiss
Alliteration
Dark days
Assonance
Child of silence
Consonance
Love and live
Figurative language
Expressing language in a creative and different way
Communication
An exchange of information that involves talking to otter people and can change us in different ways
River
Poetry is like a ______!
Pat Mora
A women who writes in two languages and wrote “uncoiling” and “a voice”
Because she loves the power and pleasures of words and her mom inspires her
Why is pat mora a writer?
Personification
In uncoiling she mainly uses
Theme
What a poem is really about
A tornado
What is the poem “Uncoiling” about?
It’s about Mora’s mother and how she spoke English and Spanish, but once couldn’t speak up in public, and is now passed down to her children as a “rule” to speak up.
What is the poem “a voice” about?