Monday- Poetry Terms

Alliteration- the repetition of an initial consonant sound
Anaphora- the repetition of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses or verses
Antithesis- the juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in balanced phrases
Apostrophe- breaking off discourse to address some absent person or thing, some abstract quality, an inanimate object, or a nonexistent character
Assonance- identity or similarity in sound between internal vowels in neighboring words
Chiasmus- A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed
Euphemism- the substitution of an inoffensive term for one considered offensively explicit
Hyperbole- an extravagant statement; the use of exaggerated terms for the purpose of emphasis or heightened affect
Irony- the use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning. a statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.
Litotes- a figure of speech consisting of an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite.
Metaphor- an implied comparison between two unlike things that actually important in common
Metonym- a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated; also, the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it
Onomatopeia- the use of words that imitate the sounds associated with objects or actions they refer to
Oxymoron- a figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side
Paradox- a statement that appears to contradict itself
Personification- a figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstraction is endowed with human qualities or abilities
Pun- a play on words, sometimes on different senses of the same word and sometimes on the similar sense or sound of different words
Simile- a stated comparison between two fundamentally dissimilar things that have certain qualities in common
Synecdoche- a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole or the whole for a part
Understatement- a figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is

Black Veil Bride Lyrics- Knives And Pens (Alliteration)

One final fight, for this tonight.
Woah...
With knives and pens we made our plight.
Woah...
And I can't go on without your love, you lost, you never held on.
We tried out best... Turn out the light,
Turn out the light.

A letter To Juliet

My Fair Juliet,
I cannot believe thou art dead. My love, more beautiful than the moon itself. You left this hateful world. Now lovely Verona has turned from heaven to the pits of hell without you. It would make me marry indeed  to see thy stunning face again. Thy face that makes Hera weep in envy and jealousy. I miss thee more than the lily misses the spring sun. I am dead without my stunning lily. Your petals have withered and are black now. My very soul weeps at the sight of my dead flower, the very flower that lit up my life. How am I supposed to continue my life without you. My very love that makes the moon envious. I shall end my life, fore i cannot live on without you, my angel. So, I drink to us being reunited in heaven and there we shall live out eternity together, without the hate of our families' feud. My fairest Juliet, thou art my life now, my whole life. I shall see you in heaven my fair angel.
My heart is forever yours,
Romeo

My First Blog

I honestly have never blogged before... This is going to be a major learning experience for me. It'll be nice not having to write everything. I'm better with computers anyway. Poetry is also one of my favorite things, so this unit will be fun. (: