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The voice that the speaker creates whenever reading the story through their words. In the poem homage to my hips, the author Lucille Clifton creates the tone of self appreciation through her describing her love for her body. We can see this in the quote: "These are mighty hips" (Clifton 11). In this quote she is appreciating her body.

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In the poem Good Bones by Maggie Smith, she repeats "life is short" for multiple lines. This is an Anaphora, which is the repetition of a word or phrase in 2 or more sentences at the beginning.

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Detailed, descriptive language that puts a picture in the reader's mind and uses the five senses.

Example: "In the casket displayed on satin she lay with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on, a turned-up putty nose, dressed in a pink and white nightie" (Piercy 19-22).

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An allusion is when a text references another external text, like a person, place, or event. An example from the poems we read this week is the title "Barbie Doll" by Marge Piercy. This is referencing a Barbie Doll.

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Symbolism: a use of figurative language to represent someone of something, symbols usually having a double meaning

Example: "these hips are free hips" (Clifton 5). In "homage to my hips" Lucille Clifton uses hips as a symbol for womanhood.

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Hyperbole is the extreme or exaggeration of something. In the poem Barbie Doll, the author says that the girl cut off her nose and legs and offered them up. The girl didn't actually cut off her nose and legs all of a sudden and offer them up to anything.

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Definition: Repetition of a word or phrase at the end of 2 or more lines that make the writers point memorable.

Example: "This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful" (Smith 16).

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Alliteration is the repetition of a beginning consonant sound in words close together Example: "the scrotum wrinkled as a waved welk shell" (Olds 12).

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Definition: a series of words or phrases separated by commas without a conjunction; emphasizes the words and phrases equally, creating a powerful sound.

Example: Bathing the New Born - "the chest, the hands, the clavicles, the throat, the gummy furze of the scalp" (Olds 13-15).

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Definition : A metaphor is comparing two things without the use of like or as.

Example - " Now I am a lake," (Plath 10).

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Personification is when you give inanimate objects or things human qualities. For example, In the poem "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath, the mirror says "I meditate on the opposite wall" (Plath 6). This is giving human qualities to the mirror by saying it can meditate when in reality it is inanimate.

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Placing 2 things side by side to show their differences. In the poem Good Bones, Smith uses juxtaposition when she says "for every loved child, a child broken", this shows the contrast between the amount of loved kids and broken kids.

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Speaker: the voice of the poem. May not be be poet, human, or any one individual thing. The speaker helps convey the tone, theme, and message.

In the poem "Good Bones" the speaker is the mother, who tells the reader how she hopes for a better future for her children.

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Definition > A list of items separated by no commas and several conjunctions

Example > "Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every stranger, there is one who would break you" (Smith 10-12).

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definition: assonance is the repetition of a vowel sound

example: In the poem "Crash" assonance is used when repeating the vowel sound of the long a when stated, "O gender, O race, O yea of little faith" (Alexander 11, 12).