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| "thinking about your thinking" |
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| history of a word, a words' origin |
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| feelings associated with words |
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| dictionary definition, literal meaning |
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| figures of speech, expressions |
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| tired overused expression (to be avoided) |
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| similarity in some respect between things otherwise unlike |
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| a word formed from the initial letters of the words which it represents |
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colorful language relying on imagery and symbol to convey meaning
"the umbrella of poetic terms and language" |
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| "Poetry is the best words in the best order." Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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| giving life like (human) characteristics to inanimate objects |
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| figure of speech whereby two opposite ideas are used to describe one thing, jumbo shrimp |
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| a very exaggerated statement |
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| the imitation of natural sounds, words that sound like what they are - crackle, splash, crunch, sizzle |
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| a direct comparison that is introduced by the prepositions "like" or "as" |
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| an implied comparison between two seemingly unlike things. A metaphor simply states that one thing is something else. |
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| the pattern of rhymes in a poem |
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| two consecutive lines of poetry that rhyme |
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| a fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter |
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| the repetition of initial consonant sounds |
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| the voice you hear in a poem |
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| a reference to a person, place, event, literary work, which a writer expects the reader to recognize and respond to. An allusion may be drawn from history, geography, literature, pop- culture, or religion |
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| Any object, person, place or action that has a meaning in itself and also stands for something larger than itself. A rose is often a symbol of love and beauty, a skull a symbol of death, spring and winter usually symbolize youth and old age. |
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