My grand grid by Tatum Reynolds

Imagery

tatum_reynolds — 2017-10-10 15:06:32 UTC

Imagery is the name given to the elements in a poem that spark off the senses. Example: "I remember trying not to stare the night
That I first met you, you had me mesmerized
And three weeks later in the front porch light
Taking 45 minutes just to kiss goodnight
I hadn't told you yet but I thought I loved you then"

Mood

tatum_reynolds — 2017-10-12 14:56:42 UTC

In literature, mood is a literary element that evokes certain feelings or vibes in readers through words and descriptions. Example: "There's not enough rain in Oklahoma
To wash the sins out of that house
There's not enough wind in Oklahoma
To rip the nails out of the past
Shatter every window 'til it's all blown away,
Every brick, every board, every slamming door blown away
'Til there's nothing left standing, nothing left of yesterday
Every tear-soaked whiskey memory blown away,"

Stanza

tatum_reynolds — 2017-10-12 15:02:29 UTC

Is a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line or indentation. Example: This old man, he played one, He played knick knack with his thumb, With a knick, knack, paddy whack, Give the dog a bone; This old man came rolling home.

Repetition

tatum_reynolds — 2017-10-15 16:34:22 UTC

Repetition is used to emphasize a feeling or idea, create rhythm, and/or develop a sense of urgency. Example:

When I first surrendered all to You
it wasn’t clear to me,
that You became the author;
my life, Your poetry.
The pages of my life were dark.
You made them snowy white.
And then with mastery and skill
You began to write.
Each day a different style and form
something fresh and new
always timely and spot on
and never overdue.

Speaker

tatum_reynolds — 2017-10-15 17:00:39 UTC

A word, place, character, or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal. level. Example: Jenny grew up wild, like a blackfoot daisy
Out in the shack with a blue tick hound
Broke as hell, but blessed with beauty
The kind that a rich man can't turn down
She caught the eye of an oil man dancing
One summer night in a dime store dress
She had the looks, he had the mansion
And you can figure out the rest.

Figure Of Speech

tatum_reynolds — 2017-10-15 17:03:14 UTC

is a word or phrase that has a meaning other than the literal meaning. It can be a metaphor or simile that's designed to further explain a concept. Example: A raucous shriek echoed off the walls, Discreet notes being passed, now arrested, Silencing the jokers emitting animal calls, In pin-drop silence, we were vested, Despite loud noises or paper rockets, Could she deign to pay any heed, As she felt around in her deep pockets, A boring day, it was indeed.

Onomatopoeia

tatum_reynolds — 2017-10-15 17:04:54 UTC

The formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent. Example: The door went creak
In the still of the night
The floor went bump
Oh what a fright
All of a sudden, we heard a chime
The grandfather clock was keeping good time
We turned down a hallway and heard a loud crash
It seems that someone had dropped all the trash
So many sounds when the lights go out
It’s enough to make you scream and shout!

Alliteration

tatum_reynolds — 2017-10-15 17:07:27 UTC

is a literary device that repeats a speech sound in a sequence of words that are close to each other. Example: Rabbits running so very fast
In the field of green, green grass.
Sniffing for scents of snack time treats,
Hippity Hopping on their happy bunny feet.
When carrots and other foods are found
The rabbits prance and pounce.

Rhyme

tatum_reynolds — 2017-10-15 17:08:19 UTC

identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse. Examples: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.

poetry

tatum_reynolds — 2017-10-15 17:33:34 UTC

literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm; poems collectively or as a genre of literature. Examples: Steel horses nodding

In the petroleum field are beasts

That suck

The crude of earth.

They have lived here for as long as I

Remember. This moment,

I smell wild incense:

Heather, abducted by a desert wind.

Its growth hides

The rain-carved ribs of the foothills.

Evening swallows

The city fasting...

rhythm

tatum_reynolds — 2017-10-15 17:33:48 UTC

There are five main types of beats, or meter, that we use in poetry. Here, we will take a brief look at each type. In poetry, rhythm is expressed through stressed and unstressed syllables. Example: The clock is silent
nowadays clocks no longer
need to make
that rhythmic sound of life.
We have moved on
and everything is changed
I am no longer sad
I don't weep for you.

meter

tatum_reynolds — 2017-10-15 17:33:58 UTC

is a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse, or within the lines of a poem. Stressed syllables tend to be longer, and unstressed shorter. Example: Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

free verse

tatum_reynolds — 2017-10-15 17:34:09 UTC

Free verse is an open form of poetry. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. Example: After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds; After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes, Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks, Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship: Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying, Waves, undulating waves—liquid, uneven, emulous waves, Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves, Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking, displaced the surface.

end rhyme

tatum_reynolds — 2017-10-15 17:34:22 UTC

is defined as when a poem has lines ending with words that sound the same. An example of end rhyme is the poem, Star Light, Star Bright. Example: In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly.
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

simile

tatum_reynolds — 2017-10-15 18:34:25 UTC

A simile is an easy way to compare two things, so examples of simile poems include any poem that makes comparisons using the words "like" or "as." Example: Twinkle, twinkle little star,How I wonder what you are Up above the world so high,Like a diamond in the sky.

metaphor

tatum_reynolds — 2017-10-15 18:37:48 UTC

Metaphors are commonly used throughout all types of literature, but rarely to the extent that they are used in poetry. Example: If I were a Rose painted black,
would you cast me aside
like blackened, burnt rice?
Would my color tarnish my sweet smell?

internal rhyme

tatum_reynolds — 2017-10-15 18:42:10 UTC

In poetry, internal rhyme, or middle rhyme, is rhyme that occurs within a single line of verse, or between internal phrases across multiple lines. By contrast, rhyme between line endings is known as end rhyme. Examples: Jenny and Me were engaged, you see,…
So a kiss or two was nothing to you…
Jenny would go in a domino ….
While I attended, clad in a splendid……
Now we had arranged, through notes exchanged
At Number Four to waltz no more, …
When Three was over, an eager lover…..

personification

tatum_reynolds — 2017-10-15 18:44:50 UTC

is a form of figurative language in which something that is not human is given human characteristics. Example: Hey, diddle, diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.