1. GET OUT A SHEET OF PAPER TO TAKE NOTES ON (OR OPEN UP THE NOTES SECTION IN YOUR PHONE/TABLET) 2. TITLE IT FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Definition: a comparison between two unlike things Example: drowning in debt You may have a lot of debt but you are not literally drowning. Definition: extreme exaggeration in poetry. Example: my sister uses so much makeup, she has to use a chisel to get it off!! Example: in a house the size the size of a postage stamp, lived a man, as big as a barge. Definition: when a human qualities are given to animals or non human inanimate objects. Example: the birds were singing in the trees or the washing machine purred Birds cant literally sing and a washing machine cant purr! Duh!! Definition: the readers attitude and feelings for the poem. Example: the mood Is the feeling or atmosphere of a piece that the reader feels while reading it. The mood can be many different things: a feeling of love, a feeling of doom, a feeling of fear, a feeling of pride, an atmosphere of chaos, and an atmosphere of peace. Definition: repetition of the same sound at the beginning of the words. Example: Shelley sells seashells by the seashore or Acquainted with the night by Robert Frost: I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet when far away an interrupted cry came over houses from another street. Definition: a comparison between two things that uses the words like or as Example: her smile is as bright as the sun. the night sky glittered like diamonds. Definition: the authors feelings about their writing, the poets attitude about their work. The poets emotion that comes through in their words. A phrase or expression in which the meaning is different than its literal meaning Example: kick the bucket, its raining cats and dogs, or icing on the cake When words with the same ending sounds are repeated Seven/eleven/heaven (the en sound is repeated) Words that imitate sounds Example: wham, bam, slam, thank you maam When words are repeated throughout poetry (look at the example below) Break em down The walls between us, break em down Denotation is the dictionary definition of a word (its literal meaning), connotation is the implied or underlying meaning of a word Denotation of swag- a curved draping of cloth between two points, like curtains on a window The feelings/emotions associated with a word (NOT what the word literally means) Connotation of swag - style, personal appearance and confidence Repeated vowel sounds within a word Example: the fleet feet sweep by the greedy geese The voice of the poem, NOT the author Could be the character in the poem, does not always have a name