P6 Poetic Terms Review by Stephanie Faucette https://padlet.com/stjosephsacademy/ih2op3tdniegkwij Your post should include 1) the term as your subject; 2) a student-friendly, personal definition of the term; 3) an example of the term from a poem we covered last week; and 4) a fun meme related to the term or to your quote. Be prepared to share your posts with the class! en-us 2025-09-03 04:47:18 UTC 2025-09-05 15:30:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/8.0/svg/1f4d4.svg Allusion https://padlet.com/stjosephsacademy/ih2op3tdniegkwij/wish/3567371652

  • when a text references another external text, person, place or thing


    Ex. "Barbie Doll"


    • ]]>     2025-09-03 17:33:04 UTC https://padlet.com/stjosephsacademy/ih2op3tdniegkwij/wish/3567371652     Symbolism https://padlet.com/stjosephsacademy/ih2op3tdniegkwij/wish/3567374045 Definition: The deeper meaning behind the story etc.


    Example: "So she cut off her nose and her legs and offered them up" (Piercy 17-18).



    ]]>     2025-09-03 17:34:54 UTC https://padlet.com/stjosephsacademy/ih2op3tdniegkwij/wish/3567374045     Hyperbole https://padlet.com/stjosephsacademy/ih2op3tdniegkwij/wish/3567374482 the term is Hyperbole


    a hyperbole is an exaggeration not to be taken laterally


    "so she cut off her nose and her legs and offered them up"(Piercy 17)

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  • projects human qualities onto inanimate objects


    Ex. "These hips, they go where they want to go" (Clifton 9).

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  • Two things being shown together compared in contrast.

  • "For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, and sunk in a lake" (Smith 9-10).

    • ]]>     2025-09-03 17:35:34 UTC https://padlet.com/stjosephsacademy/ih2op3tdniegkwij/wish/3567374792     Anaphora https://padlet.com/stjosephsacademy/ih2op3tdniegkwij/wish/3567375775 The repetition a word or phrase for the purpose of building rhythm, drama, intensity, or emphasis


    Ex: Good Bones

    "Life is short, though I keep this from my children" (Smith 1).

    ]]>     2025-09-03 17:36:24 UTC https://padlet.com/stjosephsacademy/ih2op3tdniegkwij/wish/3567375775     speaker https://padlet.com/stjosephsacademy/ih2op3tdniegkwij/wish/3567376565 definition: the person or object that is sharing their thoughts, feelings, and what is happening in the poem


    example: In the poem "Mirror" by Sylvia Plath, the mirror is the speaker because it tells the story and insecurities through it's eyes.

    ]]>     2025-09-03 17:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/stjosephsacademy/ih2op3tdniegkwij/wish/3567376565     asyndeton https://padlet.com/stjosephsacademy/ih2op3tdniegkwij/wish/3567378594 definition: a series of words or phrases separated by commas, WITH NO conjunction


    example: Life is short, and I've shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I'll keep from my children.



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    Example: In the poem "homage to my hips" the tone is confidence.

    ]]>     2025-09-03 17:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/stjosephsacademy/ih2op3tdniegkwij/wish/3567378899     Epistrophe https://padlet.com/stjosephsacademy/ih2op3tdniegkwij/wish/3567379463 the repetition of a word or phrase at the end of a sentence


    Ex. From Good Bones "il-advised ways" (Smith 3-4).


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  • a series of items separated by no commas and several conjunctions


    Ex. "Born as usual and presented dolls that did pee-pee and miniature GE stoves and irons and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy" (Piercy 1-4).

    • ]]>     2025-09-03 17:39:48 UTC https://padlet.com/stjosephsacademy/ih2op3tdniegkwij/wish/3567380362     alliteration https://padlet.com/stjosephsacademy/ih2op3tdniegkwij/wish/3567381743 When the same letter sound repeated multiple times.


    Wrinkled as a waved whelk shell (Olds 12).

    ]]>     2025-09-03 17:40:47 UTC https://padlet.com/stjosephsacademy/ih2op3tdniegkwij/wish/3567381743     Metaphor https://padlet.com/stjosephsacademy/ih2op3tdniegkwij/wish/3567383091 Definition: direct comparison that does not use like or as and is meant to not be taken literally


    Ex. "Now I am a lake" (Plath 10).

    ]]>     2025-09-03 17:41:44 UTC https://padlet.com/stjosephsacademy/ih2op3tdniegkwij/wish/3567383091     Imagery https://padlet.com/stjosephsacademy/ih2op3tdniegkwij/wish/3567384521 Imagery is a form of visually descriptive or figurative language commonly found in literary works.

    An example of imagery is in "Bathing the Newborn" by Sharon Olds. The speaker (mom) gave us a visual description of holding her baby "I laid the little torso along my left forearm, nape of the neck in the crook of my elbow, hips nearly as small as a least tern's hips against my wrist, thigh held loosely in the loop of thumb and forefinger, the sign that means exactly right" (Olds 4).

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