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Descriptive language that appeals to

the five senses.

There are five types of imagery you


need to know…
Visual Imagery-
Imagery that deals with picturing something.
Example: The dark, black cloud began to
block the azure, blue sky as we sat and
watched on the beach.

Auditory Imagery-
Imagery that deals with sound and hearing.
Example: The doorbell rang and Rayna
screamed, “I’ll get it!”
Olfactory Imagery-
Imagery that represents a smell.
Example: The garbage can released an odor of
rancid, three-week-old milk.

Gustatory Imagery-
Imagery that represents a taste.
Example: Mark tasted the briny, bitter salt
water for the first time.
Tactile Imagery-
Imagery that represents touch.
Example: She dug her toes in the wet
sand, but she was still sweating from the
hot sun.
An author’s attitude toward his or her subject
matter.
We can figure out tone by an author’s word choice,
punctuation, sentence structure, and figures of
speech.

SAMPLE TONE WORDS:


sympathetic, serious, ironic, sad, bitter,
humorous, angry, apologetic, critical, proud
The emotional quality of a literary work.

Mood is determined by setting, subject matter,


and tone.

SAMPLE MOOD WORDS:


Cheerful, gloomy, bleak, eerie, tense,
calm, ominous, uncertain, miserable
 Alliteration: The repetition of consonant
sounds, generally at the beginning of words.

 Example: Sally sells sea-shells by the sea shore.

 Consonance: The repetition of consonant


sounds within or at the end of words that do not
rhyme or are preceded by different vowel
sounds.

 Example: The clock struck twelve, and he was tickled


with excitement as the ball dropped.
 Assonance: The repetition of same or similar
vowel sounds in words that are close together.

 Example: So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.


Do you like blue?
 Diction: A writer’s choice of words; an
important element in the writer’s voice or
style.

 Denotation: The literal, dictionary meaning


of a word.
 Example: The word “home” means, “the physical
structure within which one lives, such as a house.”

 Connotation: The suggested or implied


meanings associated with a word beyond its
dictionary definition.
 Example: Words can have positive or negative
connotations. The word “home” might suggest
positive thoughts of comfort, family, protection, etc.
 Onomatopoeia: The use of a word or
phrase that imitates or suggests the
sound of what it describes.

 Examples: Hiss, crack, swish, murmur, mew,


buzz.

 Apostrophe: A literary device in which a


speaker addresses an inanimate object,
an idea, or an absent person.

 Example: Oh, mother, where would I be


without your guidance!
 Repetition: The recurrence of sounds,
words, phrases, lines or stanzas in a
poem.

 Writers use repetition to emphasize an


important point, to expand on an idea, to
create rhythm, and to increase the unity
of the work.

 Example: The repeated chorus of a song


emphasizes the message of that song.
 End Rhyme: The rhyming of words at the end of
a line.
 Example: They could not excuse the sin.
That was committed by his kin.
 Internal Rhyme: Rhyme that occurs within a
single line of poetry.

 Example: No, baby, no, you may not go.”

 Slant Rhyme: Two words sound similar, but do


not have a perfect rhyme.

 Example: The words jackal and buckle.


 Speaker: The voice that communicates
with the reader of a poem (like a narrator).

 Stanza:A group of lines forming a unit in


a poem or a song.

 Line:The basic unit of poetry. The line is


a word or a row of words (not a sentence
that extends over to the next line, though).

Thereare four structural poems you will need to


know based on the number of lines.
 Four types of poems based on line
number:

 Couplet: Consists of two lines.

 Quatrain: Consists of four lines.

 Sestet: Consists of six lines.

 Octave: Consists of eight lines.


 Rhyme Scheme: The pattern that end
rhymes form in a stanza or poem.

 Rhyme scheme is designated by the


assignment of a different letter of the
alphabet to each new rhyme.
Roses are red A
Violets are blue B
You stole my heart C
Then were untrue B
 Narrative Poem: A poem that tells a
story. Narrative poems are usually
contrasted with lyric poems.

 Lyric Poem: Poetry that expresses a


speaker’s personal thoughts or feelings.

 Free Verse: Poetry that has no fixed


pattern of meter, rhyme, line length, or
stanza arrangement.
 Ode: A long, serious lyric poem that is
elevated in tone and style.
 Some odes celebrate a person, an event, or even a
power or object.
 Haiku: A traditional, nature-inspired
Japanese form of poetry that has 3 lines and
17 syllables.
 Lines one and three are five syllables each.
 Line two is seven syllables.
 Sonnet: A lyric poem of 14 lines, typically
written in iambic pentameter and following
strict patterns of stanza division and rhyme.
 One thing haiku poems try to do is
present imagery and details that try
to convey a larger insight or
meaning.

 For example, a writer is not simply describing


a setting, but they are describing a setting to
provide insight or a larger meaning.
Nature Haiku: Skies so azure blue
Youthful hue makes my heart race
Infinite blessing

Person Haiku: Angry from day one


Critical of all that’s fun
You suffer the most

Create a Haiku about nature or a favorite


setting and create a haiku about a person or
type of person.

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