Poetry Flashcards
Simile
Comparison using like or as
Imagery
Images in poem
Personification
Animation
Alliteration
Two or more words begin with the same consonant
Assonance
Long vowel sounds eg look
Advice to a teenage daughter
Isobel thrilling
You found a new war game called love -metaphor
Brave ranks of lipstick, brandishing, swords of cherry pink and flame - personification+imagery
Conquest may seem easy -assonance
He wishes for the clothes of heaven wb Yeats
Had I the heavens embroidered clothes, enwrought with golden and silver light, the blue and the dim and the dark cloth of night, light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloth under your feet But I being poor have only my dreams,
I have spread my dreams under your feet
Tread softy because you tread on my dreams
Lake Isle of innisfree
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore -onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance, sybilance
Cricket sings- sounds
I stand on the roadway, or the pavement grey- imagery
Noon a purple glow-metaphor, imagery
I will arise and go now
Does it matter
Siegfried Sassoon Does it matter- repeated Kind , mind -rhyming Gobble their muffins and eggs -imagery There's such splendid work for the blind-sarcasm
But you didn’t
Merril glass
But you didn’t -repeated
I forgot to tell you the dance was formal and you came in jeans- imagery
I thought you’d kill me- exaggeration
So many things i wanted to tell you when you returned from Vietnam
Wb Yeats.
1865- sandy mount Nobel literature 1922 Abbey theatre , lady Gregory Maude gonne Georgie Hyde lees 1939 France 1948 Sligo