Poetry Project--Poetic Terminology and Recognition (Due March 20th)

Directions: For each of the following poetic terms you will: 1. Write the definition for the term, 2. Find two examples of how the term is being used in a poem within your text book (be sure to include the title of the poem, the page number and the line number when you are quoting), and 3. Explain the way that it is being used in the text and what we learn from it.

1. Alliteration
2. Allusion
3. Assonance
4. Figurative Language
5. Hyperbole
6. Imagery
7. Metaphor
8. Meter
9. Onomatopoeia
10. Personification
11. Repetition
12. Rhyme
13. Rhyme Scheme
14. Simile
15. Speaker
16. Stanza
17. Symbol
18. Theme
19. Tone
20. Enjambment