POETRY, MOOD & TONE, SOUND DEVICES

MOOD
The overall feeling or emotion felt by the reader.

TONE
The author’s attitude toward his subject; sets the mood.

POETRY
Literature written in verse with a blend of imagery and sound to tell a story or create an emotional response.

VERSE
A single line of poetry.

STANZA
A group of lines within a poem; like a paragraph in prose.

ALLITERATION
The repetition of a sound or letter at the beginning of words –
ex. Sally sells seashells by the seashore.

REPETITION
Repeating a word or phrase more than once.

ASSONANCE
The repetition of vowel sounds within words – ex. blAde, mAze.

CONSONANCE
The repetition of consonant sounds at the end of words – ex. wiND, saND.

ONOMATOPOEIA
The use of words that imitate sounds – ex. zip, crash, bang, hiss, tap, boom.

RHYME
The repetition of sound – ex. hat, bat.

END RHYME
Rhyming words at the end of lines of poetry.

INTERNAL RHYME
Rhyming words that are within the lines of poetry.

RHYME SCHEME
A pattern of rhyming lines referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme.

RHYTHM
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. When this pattern is repeated throughout the poem, the poem has a beat.

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