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DEFINITIONS AND
EXAMPLES
1. Alliteration – repetition of consonant sounds
Example: Happy Heather hopped along.
2. Assonance – repetition of vowel sounds; words begin with different consonants
Example: The blue bird cooed at the moon.
3. End rhyme – words that rhyme at the end of lines
Example: Roses are red Violets are blue Poetry is cool So are you
4. Exact rhyme – Words that share the exact same sound at the end
Examples: Spring / fling Low / dough
5. Half rhyme – words that nearly rhyme; also called slant rhyme or imperfect
rhyme
Examples: Eyes / light Years / yours
POETRY TERMS
6. Iambic pentameter – A line of poetry that contains five repeated units of stressed
and unstressed syllables; each unit sounds like “da DUM”, so the entire line
repeats that pattern five times
Example: “To strive , to seek , to find , and not to yield .”
7. Internal rhyme – Rhyme that occurs inside a line
Example: Megan will hop up on top Always to see the bumble bee
8. Meter – A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables; See iambic pentameter
for an example
9. Onomatopoeia – Use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning
Examples: Buzz bang
10.Rhyme scheme – pattern of rhyme in a poem; marked by assigning a letter of the
alphabet to each new sound
Example: Roses are red a Violets are blue. b No they’re not. c Violets are purple. d In my head a I get hot. c Because purple d Is not blue. b Do you? b
11.Rhythm – a pattern of beats in poetry; marked in the poem as meter; see iambic
pentameter for an example of one type of meter
12. Scansion – identifying and marking the meter (patterns of stressed and
unstressed syllables) in a poem
Comprehension
- At what stage in life did the speaker in the poem fall in love?
- What caused the death of Annabel Lee?
- Why will nothing be able to separate the speaker’s soul from the soul of Annabel Lee?
- What does the speaker do “all the nighttide”?
Critical Thinking
- In what ways does Poe make the events of the story seem distant, like those of a fairy tale?
- How does the last stanza make the sense of sadness in the poem seem immediate and never- ending?
Name ______________________________ Block _______
Apply your knowledge
Read “Feelings About Words” on pages 776-777 of the literature book and answer the following questions.
Sound devices
- What is the rhyme scheme for the first six lines of the poem?
- Write eight examples of exact end rhyme from the poem. EXAMPLE LINE NUMBERS
“clink” / “drink” 1 / 2
POETRY TERMS
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