Set 2: Poetry Terms Examples.

Front 1

Alliteration

Back 1

"A moist young moon hung above the mist of a neighboring meadow."


(Vladimir Nabokov)

Front 2

Assonance

Back 2

"Flash with a rash gimme my cash flickin' my ash
Runnin with my money, son, go out with a blast."

(Busta Rhymes)

Front 3

Blank Verse

Back 3

I miss the keyboard,
even the pen
that always leaks,
leaving behind trademark blots
of blue ink.
Sometimes I try to I remember.
Those days I would write and publish,
but now my refrigerator door
stays empty and cold.
Magnetic fruit beg for a purpose.
I sit.
At a blank screen
where the cruel cursor winks at me, in mockery.
I used to know how.
I would type and create masterpieces.
In just thirty minutes,
I'd have my own Bob Ross painting.
But now the words vanish,
as I search for the next thing to write ...

(By Jaime W., New City, NY)

Front 4

Caesura

Back 4

This mortal abolition
IS seldom, but as fair
As Apparition---subject
To autocratic air.
(Emily Dickinson).

Front 5

Closed form

Back 5

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask’d, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare

Front 6

Couplet

Back 6

"Whether or not we find what we are seeking is idle, biologically speaking." (Edna Saint Vincent Millay)

Front 7

Dactyl

Back 7

Just for a handful of silver he left us
Just for a riband to stick in his coat

Front 8

Epic

Back 8

“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Front 9

Figurative Language

Back 9

"All the world's a stage" Frost often referred to them simply as "figures."

Front 10

Foot

Back 10

| a CAT | er PILL | ar a MONG | those MUL | berry LEAVES |
| u / | u / | u u / | u / | u / |

Front 11

Free verse

Back 11

After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds;
After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,
Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,

Front 12

Image

Back 12

"The Shepherd's Hour,
The Moon is red through horizon's fog."
"In a dancing mist the hazy meadow sleeps."
(Paul Verlaine)

Front 13

Lyric poem

Back 13

The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
(A. E. Housman)

Front 14

Metaphor

Back 14

"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun"

(William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.)

Front 15

Meter

Back 15

When I..|..con SID..|..er HOW..|..my LIFE..|..is SPENT
Ere HALF..|..my DAYS..|..in THIS..|..dark WORLD..|..and WIDE

Front 16

Onomatopoeia

Back 16

From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells -
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.
(Edgar Allen Poe: The Bells)

Front 17

Personification

Back 17

"The road isn't built that can make it breathe hard!"
(slogan for Chevrolet automobiles)

Front 18

Quatrain

Back 18

Round, round, the root do's run;
And being ravisht thus,
Come, I will drink a Tun
To my Propertius.
(Robert Herrick's "To Live Merrily, and to Trust to Good Verses")

Front 19

Ode

Back 19

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine happiness, -
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.

Front 20

Epigram

Back 20

"I am not young enough to know everything." (Oscar Wilde)