Alliteration

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Alliteration
A tutor who tooted the flute tried to tutor two
tooters to toot. (A Tutor by Carolyn Wells)

• -the repetition of consonant sounds in words that
  are close together

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Capital Letter

• -capitalizing the first word in lines of poems is
  traditional
• It was many year ago,
• In a kingdom by the sea.
• (Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe)

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End Rhyme
The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew.

• Rhyme that occurs at the end of lines

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Hyperbole

• Exaggeration
• To wait an eternity

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Internal Rhyme

• Rhyme that occurs within the lines of the poem
• The cat sat on the mat.

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Line Length
Sifted, unfalled snow Settling and unsettling
snow, Snow resting like mortar on the stone Of
the cold, unroofed, unfinished home.

• Line length is chosen based on rhythm
  (shorter/longer), rhyme, pace (fast/slow), visual
  patterns, and emphasis

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Metaphor

• Compares two unlike things, but it does not use
  like, as, than, or resembles
• The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy
  seas. (The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes)

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Onomatopoeia

• Words with sounds that echo their sense

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Personification

• A nonhuman thing or quality (characteristic) is
  talked about as if it were human
• I am of the earth.
• She is my mother.
• (I Am of the Earth by Anna Lee Walters)

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Rhyme Scheme

• Patterns of rhymes, a letter is assigned to each
  new end rhyme
• Line 1 Day after day, day after daya
• Line 2 We stuck, nor breath nor motionb
• Line 3 As idle as a painted shipc
• Line 4 Upon a painted oceanb
• (abcb)

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Simile
I wandered lonely as a cloud. (by William
Wordsworth)

• Comparison of two unlike things using the words
  like, as, than, or resembles