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Learning poetry down on Free Verse Techniques – Figures of Speech (Assonance, Alliteration, Consonance) Meter = The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry Example of Assonance: Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words. Foot = a metrical unit of poetry, typically comprised of 2 or 3 stressed and unstressed syllables IPAD ST Dear Mama by Tupac Shakur You are appreciated When I was young me and my mama had beef Seventeen years old kicked me out on the streets Though back at the time, I never thought I'd see her face [ The “ee” vowel sound] Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place Suspended from school, and scared to go home, I was a fool Example of Alliteration: The repetition of an initial consonant sound. Dear Mama by Tupac Shakur …with the big boys, breaking all the rules [“b” in ‘big boys, breaking’] I shed tears with my baby sister Over the years we was poorer than the other little kids And even though we had different daddies, the same drama [“d” in ‘different daddies’…’drama’] Example of Consonance a poetic device characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession, as in "pitter patter" Iambic = Unstressed, Stressed Phyrric = Unstressed, Unstressed Anapestic = Unstressed, Unstressed, Stressed Dactylic = Stressed, Unstressed, Unstressed Spondaic = Stressed, Stressed Trochaic = Stressed, Unstressed Foot measurements per line of verse Dimeter = 2 feet Trimeter = 3 feet Tetrameter = 4 feet Pentameter = 5 feet Hexameter = 6 feet Heptameter = 7 feet Octameter = 8 feet Verse = A single metrical line in a poetic composition; one line of poetry Stanza = A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of poetry (similar to a paragraph in prose) Stanza Names 2 verses = Couplet 3 verses = Tercet 4 verses = Quatrain 5 verses = Cinquain 6 verses = Sestet 7 verses = Septet 8 verses = Octave Dear Mama by Tupac Shakur …and even as a crack fiend, mama You always was a black queen, mama I finally understand For a woman it ain’t easy tryin to raise a man Slash = Represents Stressed “/“ Breve = Represents Unstress “u” IPAD Street Genre of Poetry: Sonnet = Fourteen-line rhyming lyric poem in iambic pentameter. Common Shakespearean (abab cdcd efef gg). Petrarchan (abba abba cde cde) Expresses feelings or thoughts. Elegy = a poem of mourning, usually for someone who has died Ode = a lyrical poem written on a serious subject and in dignified language Ballad = a narrative poem, usually tells a tragic story, has a steady rhyme and a refrain Free Verse = poetry that does not conform to meter or rhyme scheme FIGURES OF SPEECH 1. Alliteration The repetition of an initial consonant sound. 2. Assonance Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words. 3. Euphemism The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit. 4. Hyperbole An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect. 5. Irony The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea. 6. Metaphor An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common. 7. Metonymy A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated 8. Onomatopoeia The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. 9. Consonance a poetic device characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession, as in "pitter patter" 10. Personification A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities. 11. Pun A play on words. 12. Simile A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common. Volta = A point of dramatic change in poem Scanning = determining the poem’s meter Free Verse Techniques – Figures of Speech (Assonance, Alliteration, Consonance) Learning poetry down on IPAD Street Meter = The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry Example of Assonance: Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words. Dear Mama by Tupac Shakur You are appreciated When I was young me and my mama had beef Seventeen years old kicked me out on the streets Though back at the time, I never thought I'd see her face [ The “ee” vowel sound] Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place Suspended from school, and scared to go home, I was a fool Example of Alliteration: The repetition of an initial consonant sound. Dear Mama by Tupac Shakur …with the big boys, breaking all the rules [“b” in ‘big boys, breaking’] I shed tears with my baby sister Over the years we was poorer than the other little kids And even though we had different daddies, the same drama [“d” in ‘different daddies’…’drama’] Example of Consonance a poetic device characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession, as in "pitter patter" Dear Mama by Tupac Shakur …and even as a crack fiend, mama You always was a black queen, mama I finally understand For a woman it ain’t easy tryin to raise a man Genre of Poetry: Foot = a metrical unit of poetry, typically comprised of 2 or 3 stressed and unstressed syllables Sonnet = Fourteen-line rhyming lyric poem in iambic pentameter. Common Shakespearean (abab cdcd efef gg). Petrarchan (abba abba cde cde) Expresses feelings or thoughts. IPAD ST Elegy = a poem of mourning, usually for someone who has died Iambic = Unstressed, Stressed Phyrric = Unstressed, Unstressed Anapestic = Unstressed, Unstressed, Stressed Dactylic = Stressed, Unstressed, Unstressed Spondaic = Stressed, Stressed Trochaic = Stressed, Unstressed Ode = a lyrical poem written on a serious subject and in dignified language Foot measurements per line of verse Dimeter = 2 feet Trimeter = 3 feet Tetrameter = 4 feet Pentameter = 5 feet Hexameter = 6 feet Heptameter = 7 feet Octameter = 8 feet Verse = A single metrical line in a poetic composition; one line of poetry Stanza = A fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of poetry (similar to a paragraph in prose) Stanza Names 2 verses = Couplet 3 verses = Tercet 4 verses = Quatrain 5 verses = Cinquain 6 verses = Sestet 7 verses = Septet 8 verses = Octave Slash = Represents Stressed “/“ Breve = Represents Unstress “u” Volta = A point of dramatic change in poem Scanning = determining the poem’s meter Ballad = a narrative poem, usually tells a tragic story, has a steady rhyme and a refrain Free Verse = poetry that does not conform to meter or rhyme scheme FIGURES OF SPEECH 1. Alliteration The repetition of an initial consonant sound. 2. Assonance Identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words. 3. Euphemism The substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit. 4. Hyperbole An extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened effect. 5. Irony The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. A statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea. 6. Metaphor An implied comparison between two unlike things that actually have something important in common. 7. Metonymy A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated 8. Onomatopoeia The use of words that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. 9. Consonance a poetic device characterized by the repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession, as in "pitter patter" 10. Personification A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities. 11. Pun A play on words. 12. Simile A stated comparison (usually formed with "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common. 13. "like" or "as") between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common.