The repetton of inital consonant

Savaged by a sneaky, snarling

schnauzer .

A symbolic narratve in which the surface details imply a
secondary meaning. Allegory ofen takes the form of a
story in which the characters represent moral
qualites
The "brick pig" represents the reality princi-
ple :He recognizes that we must deal with
responsibilites..

A comparison between essentally un-
like things without an explicitly com-
paratve word such as like or as.
"My love is a red, red rose.

A character or force against which
another character struggles.
An example of this would be...The Joker is
the antagonist of Batman.

A run-on line of poetry in which logical and
grammatcal sense carries over from one line in-
to the next.
I think that I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree.

The repetton of similar vowel sounds in
a sentence or a line of poetry or prose
Fleet feet sweep by sleeping geese

The prominence or emphasis given to a
syllable or word.
The little toy dog is covered with dust
But sturdy and staunch he stands.


A brief witty poem, often satirical. Al-
exander Pope's "Epigram Engraved on
the Collar of a Dog" exemplifies the
genre.
I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell
me, sir, whose dog are you?


A long narratve poem that records
the adventures of a hero .
Famous epic poems are the Iliad and the Odyssey by
Homer and he Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow


A fgure of speech involving exaggera-
That joke is so old, the last tme I heard
it I was riding on a dinosaur !


The measured patern of rhythmic
accents in poems.

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
Humpty dumpty had a great fall

The use of words to convey a contradictory
of their literal meaning .


Someone posts a video about
how boring and useless Facebook

A form of language in which writers and speakers
words mean exactly what they say.
"He ran very quickly down the
street"

A mild or vague word or expression to
replace an unpleasant, offensive, or
blunt one .
Examples of euphemisms are passed
away for died and little girl/boys room for
bathroom


To be, or not to be: that is the queston.
Poems writen in unrhymed iambic
pentameter.

A haiku is a brief Japanese form that has been
adapted into English in various ways. Its usual
defniton is that it is a three-line poem, con-
sistng of seventeen syllables split 5 - 7 - 5.

A kenning is a much-compressed form of metaphor.
An object is described in a two-word phrase, such as
'whale-road' for 'sea'.
sIt down on your bum-resters
get out your thought-shapers
I'm a silence expecter so
close your noise makers!



Iambic pentameter is the name given to a line
of verse that consists of fve iambs (an iamb
being one unstressed syllable followed by one
stressed, such as "before").

A limerick is a fve-line poem, almost always hu-
morous, and frequently rude. Its rhyme scheme
is aabba, with the frst, second and last lines hav-
ing three stresses and the third and fourth lines
having two

Oxymoron is a fgure of speech in which
two terms appear to contradict each oth-
Seriously funny, bigger half, deafening
silence , old news . defnite maybe



Onomatopoeia is the forming and use of
words and phrases to imitate or suggest
the sounds they describe, such as bang,
whisper, cuckoo, splash and fzz.

Parody is the imitaton of the style of an-
other work, writer or genre, which relies on
deliberate exaggeraton to achieve comic or
satrical efect.

Rhyme is the repetton of the end-
sounds of words.
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain



Personification is when an author
gives an idea, object, or animal
qualities or traits of a person.

A simile is a comparison that claims the
things being compared are similar, rather
than the metaphor's claim that the two
things are the same. This usually appears as
"A is like B", or "C is as friendly as a D".

A word is used which has two meanings at the
same tme, which results in humour .
A bicycle can't stand alone because it is
two-tred.



A stanza is a group of lines within a po-
em; the blank line between stanzas is
known as a stanza break
Not complying to any partcular patern the
poem is free to fnd its own shape accord-
ing to what the poet wants to say .