poetry test

Alliteration

the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Metaphor

compares one object to another

Enjambment

Is when one sentence of poetry runs over to another without a break or pause

Juxtaposition

the act of placing two or more things side-by-side to highlight their differences, contrasts, or unexpected similarities.

Hyperbole

A figure of speech that involves exaggerated statements or claimed not meant to be taken literally

Simile

Comparing two objects using like or as

personification

a literary device where human qualities, emotions, or actions are assigned to non-human things, such as animals, objects, or abstract ideas.

The universals of poetry

rhythm, metaphor, heightened emotion, and structural repetition

“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18, 1609

“ from some distance,

Someone might have thought

I was making a fire in my hands.

”

Oranges by gary soto, 1995

“then seemed like she turned around and ran

right back in

right back on in”

Lucille Clifton's poem "My Mama moved among the days," 1987

“Then waltzed me off to bed

Still clinging to your shirt.

My Papa's Waltz]" by Theodore Roethke, 1942

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.

Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;”

John Keats’ poem "To Autumn, 1819

“He didn't fight.

He hadn't fought at all.

He hung a grunting weight,

battered and venerable”

The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop (1946).

“What did I know, what did I know

of love's austere and lonely offices?

Those winter sundays, Robert Hayden, 1962