Glossary

Alliteration
"Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly."

from poem "Dream", by Langston Hughes

Denotation
"From childhood 's hour I have not been

As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring

My passions from a common spring."

from poem "/Alone", by Edgar Allan Poe

"childhood"'s denotation is "the state or period of being a child" or "the early stage in the existence of something"

Connotation
"To say that for destruction ice

Is also great

And would suffice. "

by poem "Fire And Ice", by Robert Frost

"great" have a similar means at denotation with "large". But for "great", it have a positive means in connotation.

Metaphor
"if I look

at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window,"

from poem "If You Forget Me", by Pablo Neruda

Repetition
"Out of the huts of history's shame

I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave.I rise I rise  I rise. "

from poem "Still I Rise" ,by Maya Angelou

Onomatopoeia
"BOOM - t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t - BOOM BOOM, BOOM... It's the stress of the drum,

BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM, "

from poem "It's Boom... Boom Boom Boom Boom... Boom Boom Boom Bam", by Pedro Cescon

Rhythm
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could "

from poem "The Road Not Taken",by Robert Frost