Alliteration - Occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.

Allusion - Brief reference to a real or fictional person, event, place, or work of art.

Assonance - The repetition of vowel sounds in a chunk of text.

Ballad - A story/narrative in poetic form.

Consonance - A repetition of consonant sounds, but not vowels, in a chunk of text.

Diction - The author’s specific word choice.

Enjambment - This occurs when one line ends without a pause or any punctuation and continues onto the next line.

Free Verse - Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.

Metaphor - A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things without using connecting words, such as “like” or “as”.

Meter - The measured arrangement of sounds/beats in a poem, including the poet’s placement of emphasis and the number of syllables per line.

Onomatopoeia - A word that sounds like what it is [buzz, click, bang, sizzle]

Rhythm - The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry. Depending on how sounds are arranged, the rhythm of a poem may be fast or slow, choppy or smooth.

Simile - A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things using connecting words, such as “like” or “as”.

Stanza - An unidentified group of lines in poetry. This is often marked by spacing between sections of the poem.

Symbol - An object or action that means something more than its literal meaning.

Theme - The central meaning or dominant message the poet is trying to deliver to the reader.

Tone - The attitude the poem’s narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character : serious, humorous, sarcastic, ironic, concerned, tongue-in-cheek, solemn, objective, etc.

Verse - A single line of poetry.

What makes a poem a poem? - Emphasizing language’s musical qualities, Condensed language, following distinct characteristics that only poems have

What is a ballad? A poem that narrates a story in short stanzas

What Ballad did Samuel Taylor Coleridge write? Rime of the Ancient Mariner

What is free verse? Poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter

What free verse did Walt Whitman write? Leaves of Grass

What is a Haiku? A Japanese style of poetry where there are only seventeen syllables, in three lines following a five syllable, seven syllable, five syllable pattern.

What Haiku did Bashō write? The Old Pond

When was Walt Whitman born (When did he die)? - May 31, 1819 - March 26, 1892

When was Robert Frost born (When did he die)? - March 26, 1874 - January 29, 1963

What type of poetry did Walt Whitman use? - Free Verse

What type of poetry did Robert Frost use? - Blank Verse

What were Walt Whitman’s influences for his poetry? democracy, nature, love, and friendship

What were Robert Frost’s influences for his poetry? the countryside, culture and nature in the northeast part of the USA

What are some important things in a poem to notice when annotating? It is important to notice thinsg that surprise you, things that confuse you, words you do not know, important points, the main idea, questions you have about the poem, things that confuse you, connections you make, and stuff you want to learn more about

What is an example of an enjambment? - When the cat started barking it made the dog meow causing the cows to yell.

What is an example of alliteration? - Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore.

What is an example of assonance? Alyssa was anxious about her upcoming assignment.

What is an example of consonance? My mom made me wash my own jeans.

What is an example of a stanza? In the winter it's every kid's dream

What is an example of a verse? “Listen Son, Good things take time”

What is an example of an allusion? She felt like she had a golden ticket

What is an example of a simile? - It was as hot as ur dad outside.

What is an example of a metaphor? - The water was hotter than ur mom.

What is an example of Onomatopoeia? - As the train tipped off the tracks, it went ‘BANG! CRACK!’ and as it caught fire it started to ‘SIZZZZ’.

What are literary devices? Any specific aspect of literature, or a particular work, which we can recognize, identify, interpret and/or analyze

Where was Walt Whitman born? West Hills, New York

Where was Robert Frost born? San Francisco, California