I. Title the title of a literary work attracts the readers attention.

It helps to understand the

meaning of the poem. It may present the subject of the poem, create the imagery or build
emotional effect.

II. Rhyme occurs in poetry when stressed vowels sounds and the consonants that come after
them sound the same in two or more words.

III. Rhythm is the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables. Stress marks over the
stressed syllables, rounded marks over the unstressed syllables.

IV. Word meaning unfamiliar words

V. Imagery tell which particular sense, sight, sound, feel, taste, smell the image appeal to.

VI. Symbol an object, person, place or experience that means more that it is.

VII. Theme central idea of the poem

VIII. Sound emotional effect, rhyme, onomatopoeia. One of the most important things poems do is
play with sound. That doesn't just mean rhyme. It means many other things. The earliest poems
were memorized and recited, not written down, so sound is very important in poetry.

IX. Figure of Speech - Figures of speech are also called figurative language. The most well-known
figures of speech are simile, metaphor, and personification. They are used to help with the task
of "telling, not showing."

Figure of Speech
I. Simile - a comparison of one thing to another, using the words "like," "as," or "as though."

II. Metaphor - comparing one thing to another by saying that one thing is another thing.

III. Personification an object or idea given the characteristics of person.

IV. Apostrophe - an exclamatory rhetorical figure of speech, when a speaker or writer breaks
off and directs speech to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea.

V. Hyperbole - are exaggerations to create emphasis or effect.

VI. Irony - is a contradiction of expectation between what is said what is really meant. It is
characterized by an incongruity, a contrast, between reality and appearance.

VII. Allusion - relies on the reader being able to understand the allusion and being familiar with
the meaning hidden behind the words. In an allusion the reference may be to a place, event,
literary work, myth, or work of art, either directly or by implication.

VIII. Alliteration - the repetition of initial sounds in neighboring words. The initial consonant
sound is usually repeated in two neighboring words.

IX. Assonance - found more often in verse than in prose. It refers to the repetition of vowel
sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences.

X. Onomatopoeia words that imitate natural sounds.

XI. Metonymy - a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something
intimately associated with that thing or concept.