Do you ever feel like a plastic bag?Drifting through the windWanting to start again

Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin?Like a house of cards,One blow from caving in.

Do you ever feel already buried deep?Six feet under screamBut no one seems to hear a thing.

Do you know that there's still a chance for you?Cause there's a spark in you

You just gotta ignite the lightAnd let it shineJust own the night,Like the Fourth of July

• Shine bright like a diamondShine bright like a diamond

Find light in the beautiful seaI choose to be happyYou and I, you and IWe’re like diamonds in the sky

You’re a shooting star I seeA vision of ecstasyWhen you hold me, I’m aliveWe’re like diamonds in the sky

I knew that we’d become one right awayOh, right awayAt first sight I left the energy of sun raysI saw the life inside your eyes

So shine bright, tonight you and IWe’re beautiful like diamonds in the skyEye to eye, so aliveWe’re beautiful like diamonds in the sky

Shine bright like a diamondShine bright like a diamondShining bright like a diamondWe’re beautiful like diamonds in the sky

1. Figurative language: imaginative descriptions that

are not literally true.

**Similes, metaphors, and personifications are all different types of figurative

language.**

2. Stanza: lines of a poem that appear in groups.

• Example: My father was the first to hear. The passage of the geese each fall.

Passing above the house so near. He’d hear within his heart their call.

3. Traditional Poem: form of poem that uses rhythmic

rhyme scheme to convey a message

• Example: When the bright lamp is carried in,The sunless hours again begin;

4. LYRICAL POETRY

A short poem in which personal thoughts and feelings are expressed. They were meant to

be sung.

For example, Langston Hughes’ poem Mother to Son is lyrical.

5. NARRATIVE POETRY

• The narrator tells a story in this poem. The narrator may or may not be a character in the story, and is not the same as the writer.

6. Free Verse Poem: does not have to rhyme; conveys a

message without using rules

• Example: Just onceMy father stopped on the wayInto the house from workAnd joined in the softball game

7. Rhyme: the repetition of sounds at the end of words, as

in me and see.

• Example:They came to tell your faults to me.They named them over one by one.I laughed aloud when they were done,I knew them all so well before—Oh, they were blind, too blind to seeYour faults had made me love you more.

8. Rhythm: the pattern of stressed and unstressed

syllables in each line.

**A poem with a repeating pattern has what is called a meter.**

Example:

They came to tell your faults to me,

They named them over one by one;

9. Repetition: the use of a word, phrase, or line more than

once.

• For example:

How thin and sharp is the moon tonight!

How thin and sharp and ghostly white.

10. Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words, such as

the c in curved crook.

• For example:

Is the slim curved crook of the moon tonight?

11. Onomatopoeia: the use of words, either made up or real, whose sounds suggest their

meanings.

• For example:It sushes.It hushes.The loudness in the road.It flitter-twitters,And laughs away from me.

12. Imagery: language that appeals to one or more of your senses—sight, hearing, smell,

taste, and touch.

• For example:

“the sweep of easy wind and downy flake.”

13. Simile: a comparison of two things using the words like

or as.

• For example:

The sun spun like a tossed coin.

14. Metaphor: a comparison of two things that does not include the word like or as.

• For example:

Chimneys are bent legs bouncing on clouds below.

15. Personification: a description of an object, animal

or idea as if it has human qualities or emotions.

• For example:

I found the vine leaves speaking among

themselves in abundant whispers.

16. Oxymoron: figure of speech that combines contradictory terms

•EXAMPLE: “living dead”, “ground pilot”, “beautiful flaws”

In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo declares,"O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!

Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!

Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!"

17. Tone: expresses the writer’s attitude toward his/her subject. Words such as angry,

sad, and humorous can be used to describe different

tones.

EXAMPLE: “It wouldn’t have been so much for love of dog, but for survival.”—Rita Williams-Garcia, from Food from the Outside…

18. Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds in words that

don’t end or start with the same consonant, such as the ow sound in bow and down.

• Ex: Watch the wind bow down the grass,

And the grass rise.

Ex: The engineer held the steering to steer the vehicle.

19. Consonance

• Refers to the repetitive sounds produced by consonants within a sentence or phrase

• Repetition occurs back to back between words.

• Ex: chuckle, fickle, and kick

• Ex: The ship has sailed to the far off shore.

20. Symbolism

• Style using images and indirect suggestion to express mystic ideas, emotions, and states of mind.

• Different from their literal sense.

Ex: A smile could be symbolic of friendship.

Ex: A chain could be symbolic of union or imprisonment.

Ex: The dove is symbolical of peace.

Ex: A red rose symbolizes love.

21. Parallelism

• The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same or similar in their construction, sound, or meter.

• Adds balance and rhythym; smoother flow; uses a form of repetition

Ex: “Alice ran into the room, into the garden, and into our hearts.”

Ex: “Like father, like son.”

Ex: “Easy come, easy go.”