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Title: In your Poetry Packet answer the following questions: What

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In your Poetry Packet answer the following
questions

What is poetry?
Name a few places you could find poetry if you
were told to bring in 5 examples of it.

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Your poetry study will be divided into two parts
(two tests). This first section is on figurative
language. What is figurative language?

figurative language is a type of language
that varies from literal language, in which
words mean exactly what they say. Also
known as the "ornaments of language,
Figurative language does not mean exactly
what it says, but instead forces the reader
to make an imaginative leap in order to
comprehend an author's point. It usually
involves a comparison between two things
that may not, at first, seem to relate to one
another.

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Steps to Reading Poetry

Read the poem more than once and aloud at least
once.
Pay attention to the punctuation
, stop briefly at commas and semicolons
. stop longer after periods
-- if you see hyphens, expect a shift in thought
None if you see no punctuation at the end of a
line, dont stop
Feel the poems mood.
Create a picture in your mind.
What is the poem trying to tell you? Does it
make you look at something in a new way?

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Figurative Language

Term Simile
Definition
A comparison of two distinctly different things
linked by words such as like or as.
Example
Ryan likes early mornings as much as Ms. Carter
likes repeating herself.

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In your Poetry Packet, write down 2 similes from
the following poem

When I wake up in the morning
I am like a grouchy grizzly bear
Growling and roaring at all those around
After a lengthy shower
I am like a butterfly landing on a fresh petal
I am sweet to everyone
When I arrive at school
I am like a tornado turned loose
I am all over looking for my friends
In Ms. Pearmens Algebra class
I am like a calculator without batteries
I am unable to function
At the end of the school day
I am like a loaf of molded bread
I have been sitting around too long.
After a good supper and lots of phone calls
I am like a collector's Corvette
I am in good shape and I am ready to go.

In your Poetry Packet, finish these lines with
similes.
When I am tired, I am as _________________________
____
When I am sad, I am like ________________________
____
When I am annoyed, I am as _______________________
___
When I am sleepy, I am like ______________________
_____
Now come up with two of your own

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Add this definition to your poetry definitions.

Term Metaphor
Definition A direct comparison of one thing
with something completely different using is, are
or were. Indicates that one thing is another.
Example
My life is a dream.

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In your poetry packet, write at least one poem
containing two similes.
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Langston Hughes
1902-1967
Langston Hughes
was first recognized
as an important
literary figure during
the 1920s, a period known
as the "Harlem
Renaissance because of
the number of emerging
black writers.

A Dream DeferredLangston Hughes
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?

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Sleeping FatherDavid Chin

My father sits in his chair and snores.
Inhaling, he rasps like an anchor chain
Rattling off a ship, dropping into the sea.
When he exhales, waves hiss on distant shores.
In his dream, he carries the kite
His uncle made for him and walks the village path
Thinking of his father who sailed for America
years ago.
I wonder if it has to be this way with fathers.
As he sleeps with his head tipped back,
His mouth half open, behind shut eyelids
The frailest of objects climbs the sky and a
string slides though his fingers.

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In your Poetry Packet, determine whether each of
the following is a metaphor or a simile.

No one invites Harold to parties because hes a
wet blanket.
As the teacher entered the room she muttered
under her breath, This class is a three-ring
circus!
The giants steps were thunder as he ran toward
Jack.
The pillow was a cloud when I put my head upon it
after a long day.
I feel like a limp dishrag.
Those girls are like two peas in a pod.
The fluorescent light was the sun during our
test.
The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the
cans on the grocery store shelves.
The bar of soap was a slippery eel during the
dogs bath.
10.Ted was as nervous as a cat with a long tail
in a room full of rocking chairs.

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Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?William
Shakespeare

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.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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Add this definition

Term Alliteration
Definition
The same sounds at the beginning of words
Example
Paula picked a pickled pepper.

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How fast can you read these alliterations?

Angela Abigail Applewhite ate anchovies and
artichokes.
Bertha Bartholomew blew big, blue bubbles.
Clever Clifford Cutter clumsily closed the closet
clasps.
Dwayne Dwiddle drew a drawing of dreaded Dracula.
Elmer Elwood eluded eleven elderly elephants.
Floyd Flingle flipped flat flapjacks.
Greta Gruber grabbed a group of green grapes.
Hattie Henderson hated happy healthy hippos.
Ida Ivy identified the ivory iris.
Julie Jackson juggled the juicy, jiggly jello.

Karl Kessler kept the ketchup in the kitchen.
Lila Ledbetter lugged a lot of little lemons.
Milton Mallard mailed a mangled mango.
Norris Newton never needed new noodles.
Patsy planter plucked plump, purple, plastic
plums.
Quinella Quist quite quickly quelled the
quarreling quartet.
Randy Rathbone wrapped a rather rare red rabbit.
Shelly Sherman shivered in a sheer, short, shirt.
Trina Tweety tripped two twittering twins under a
twiggy
tree.

Vicky Vince viewed a very valuable vase.
Walter Whipple warily warned the weary warrior.
Xerxes Xenon expected to xerox extra x-rays.
Yolana Yvonne Yarger yodeled up yonder yesterday.
Zigmund Zane zig-zagged through the zany zoo
zone.

The use of alliterations in poetry may not be as
obvious as the tongue twisters. They may be more
subtle and add to the sound and rhythm of the
poem.

No Thank You
-Shel Silverstein
No I do not want a kitten,
No cute, cuddly kitty-poo,
No more long hair in my cornflakes,
No more midnight meowing mews.
No more scratchin, snarlin, spitters,
No more sofas clawed to shreds,
No more smell of kitty litter,
No more mousies in my bed.
No I will not take that kitten
Ive had lice and Ive had fleas,
Ive been scratched and sprayed and bitten,
Ive developed allergies.
If youve got an ape, Ill take him,
If you have a lion, thats fine,
If you brought some walking bacon,
Leave him here, Ill treat him kind.

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THE VALIANT VOYAGERSJacinta Ramayah, Malaysia

Venturing out in vessels from theVikings to
Victorian timesVigilantes with valour and
visionand of vengeance and vice.The likes of
Vasco da Gama andVespucci and Vadino
Vivaldi,From Venice to Venezuela,of viceroys
and victory.Through oceans and variables
viciousthe vast world their homeNo valuables or
valise to vex themthro vales and valleys they
roam.From villages to veld they visitbeing
valorous and versatile,A vagrant of sorts, a
vagabondsometimes vicious and vile.

In your poetry packet, write your own poem
demonstrating the SUBTLE use of alliteration.

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You PromisedBy Sara HolbrooksI gave you
private thoughtsto hold.You promised not to
tell.You told.I trusted friendshiplike a
bank.Now they knowIve got you to thank.When
secrets have my name on them,dont pass them
outto her or him.My secrets are a loanto
bereturned upon request to me. ANSWER THE
QUESTIONS IN YOUR POETRY PACKET.
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Add this to your definitions

Consonance the repetition of consonants (or
consonant patterns) especially at the ends of
words.
Example
dawn goes down
Or
some mammals are clammy

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The consonance of the hard sounds in Wes Magee's
'The Boneyard Rap' might be said to echo the
rattle of bones in the poem.

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Add this to your definitions

Term Symbol
Definition Something that has meaning in
itself, while at the same time representing or
standing for something else.
Examples

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I Am A RockSimon Garfunkel

As you listen to the song and follow along with
the lyrics in your poetry packet, think about the
use of symbolism in the music.
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In your packet write about a symbol that would
best represent you. Explains why it is a good
symbol for you.

A laughing cat would be my symbol. I love all
animals, but I would have to say that cats are
one of my favorites. I like the fact that they
are independent yet can be very loving. I also
think that they know how to enjoy life (sleeping
in the sun, yoga-like stretching). Ive been
through some tough times in my life and, after
spending many years being angry, Ive realized
that for me laughter is much more enjoyable!

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Autobiography in Five Short ChaptersPortia Nelson
Chapter 1 I walk down the street. There is a
deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost
. . . I am helpless It takes forever to find a
way out. Chapter 2 I walk down the same
street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I
pretend I dont see it. I fall in again. I cant
believe that I am in this same place. But it
isnt my fault. It still takes a long time to get
out. Chapter 3 I walk down the same
street. There is a deep hole in the
sidewalk. I see it is there. I still fall in. .
. Its a habit . . . but, My eyes are open.
I know where I am. It is my fault. I get out
immediately. Chapter 4 I walk down the same
street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I
walk around it. Chapter 5 I walk down another
street.
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Add this to your definitions

Term Imagery
Definition
A sensory experience put into words/ this
connects with one of the five senses.

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The SharkBy E. J. Pratt

And a double row of white teeth,And eyes of
metallic grey,Hard and narrow and slit.
Then out of the harbor,With that three-cornered
finShearing without a bubble the
waterLithely,Leisurely,He swam--That strange
fish,Tubular, tapered, smoke-blue,Part vulture,
part wolf,Part neither-- for his blood was cold.

He seemed to know the harbor,So leisurely he
swamHis fin,Like a piece of sheet-iron,Three-c
ornered,And with knife-edge,Stirred not a
bubbleAs it movedWith its base-line on the
water.
His body was tubularAnd taperedAnd
smoke-blue,And as he passed the wharfHe turned,
And snapped at a flat-fishThat was dead and
floating.And I saw the flash of a white throat,

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Those Winter Sundays Robert Hayden

Sundays too my father got up early
And put his clothes on in the blueback
cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather
made banked fires blaze. No one ever
thanked him.
I'd wake and hear the cold splintering,
breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he'd call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love's austere and lonely offices?

In your packet, write a poem that demonstrates
imagery

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Dust of Snow-- Robert Frost
The way a crow Shook down on meThe dust of
snowFrom a hemlock treeHas given my heartA
change of moodAnd saved some partOf a day I had
rued.
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Add this to your definitions

Term Personification
Definition Giving human qualities or
characteristics to a non-human thing.
Example There was nothing more that Fluffy the
cat enjoyed then having dinner with the family.

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The _____________-- William Jay Smith

silver-scaled Dragon with jaws
flaming red
Sits at my elbow and toasts my bread
I hand him fat slices, and then, one by one,
He hands them back when he sees
they are done.
ANSWER THE QUESTIONS IN YOUR POETRY PACKET.

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Steam ShovelCharles Malam

The dinosaurs are not all dead.
I saw one raise its iron head
To watch me walking down the road
Beyond our house today.
Its jaws were dripping with a load
Of earth and grass that it had chopped.
It must have heard me where I stopped,
Snorted white steam my way,
And stretched its long neck out to see,
And chewed, and grinned quite amiably.

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Add this to your definitions

Term Onomatopoeia
Definition A word that sounds the same as the
noise it represents.
Example Crunch, crunch, crunch, was the
sound of the snow under my feet.

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AnkylosaurusJack Prelutsky

Clankity Clankity Clankity
Clank! Ankylosaurus was built like a
tank, Its hide was a fortress as sturdy
as steel. It tended to be an inedible
meal. It was armored in front, it was
armored behind. There wasnt a thing
on its miniscule mind, It waddled
about on its four stubby legs, nibbling
on plants with a mouthful of
pegs. Ankylosaurus was best left
alone, its tail was a cudgel of gristle
and bone. Clankity Clankity Clankity
Clank! Ankylosaurus was built like a
tank.

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS IN YOUR POETRY PACKET.

In your packet, write your own poem using either
personification or onomatopoeia (or both!).

This is an example of . . .

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Something to think about

This is a Reverse Poem
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Poetry Review(I foresee a test in your future.)

1. The pan clattered to the floor.
What is clattered an example of? Why?
Give an example of a symbol and explain what it
symbolizes.
What is imagery?
Write a simile for your day today.
Write a metaphor for your smile.
Write an alliteration describing your
summer plans.

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According to the cards

You will need to be able to write the definition
for each of the words we have covered so far.
You will need to be able to give an ORIGINAL
example of each of the words that we covered.
You will need to be able to identify each of the
elements we covered in a poem.

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Poetic Elements Characteristics
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Term Rhythm
Definition The music in poetry.
Example When Kendall read her poem out loud,
David felt the rhythm and began to dance.

Rhythm is a musical quality.
The most obvious kind of rhythm is the regular
repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables
found in some poetry.
Writers also create rhythm by repeating words and
phrases or even by repeating whole lines and
sentences.
Think of some of the picture books that were read
to you. What one do you remember as having a
strong rhythm to the writing?

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BEES

You voluble,
Velvety,
Vehement fellows
That play on your
Flying and Musical cellos,
All goldenly
Girdled you
Serenade clover,
Each artist in Bass,
but a Bibulous rover!
You passionate,
Powdery Pastoral bandits,
Who gave you your Roaming and Rollicking
mandates?
Come out of my Foxglove come
Out of my roses
You bees with the
Plushy and Plausible noses!
-- Norman Rowland Gale

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Add this to your definitions.

Definition Free Verse
DEFINITION A poem that doesnt have a regular
meter.
Example The trick is to sound like familiar
speech without all the ums and ahs.

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Good Hotdogs by Sandra Cisneros

Fifty cents apiece
To eat our lunch
We'd run
Straight from school
Instead of home
Two blocks
Then the store
That smelled like steam
You ordered
Because you had the money
Two hotdogs and two pops for here
Everything on the hotdogs
Except pickle lily
Dash those hotdogs
Into buns and splash on
All that good stuff

Yellow mustard and onions
And french fries piled on top all
Rolled up in a piece of wax
Paper for us to hold hot
In our hands
Quarters on the counter
Sit down
Good hotdogs
We'd eat
Fast till there was nothing left
But salt and poppy seeds even
The little burnt tips
Of french fries
We'd eat
you humming
And me swinging my legs
ANSWER THE QUESTIONS IN YOUR POETRY PACKET

Elation to maturing despair. No friend is
everAlone in action or reaction, leftWithout a
silent commiserating presence of Invisible
brick, a personal wailing wallFor those who need
its strengthAnd stability. FriendsIs a loaded
word and pointed. It limbos out fromUnder walls,
vaults barricades, threads mazesTo erect
cellophane boundaries of its own.It lets you see
what could lie beyondBut that you gave upWhen
you spoke its name.--by Katherine Foreman.

Connotation
FriendsMeans sharing, bittersweetA brand name
of love. It is a tie for all time,Longer than
the shadows we forgetYet shorter and better than
life, or for some longer,Stronger. It balances
you, with a pole inOne hand and a rope in the
other, you choose what to use it for.It is
forever.
FriendsRemembers everything anyone ever
felt,Holds it in a cubbyhole somewhere for next
timeWhen it is spoken or thought, from
kindergarten

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Free Verse

Winter Poem
Nikki Giovanni
once a snowflake fell
on my brow and i loved
it so much and i kissed
it and it was happy and called its cousins
and brothers and a web
of snow engulfed me then
i reached to love them all
and i squeezed them and they became
spring rain and i stood perfectly
still and was a flower

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Free Verse Poem

Write a Free Verse Poem. You may write on your
own or with a partner but you each need to have
it written in your packet.
Possible topics
Walking out of school the last day this school
year
Your first day in one of your 6th grades classes.
A bad hair day.

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Add this to your definitions

Term Allusion
DEFINITION A reference to a work of literature
or person, place or event.
EXAMPLES A Pearl Harbor sneak-attack.
If you take his parking place, you can expect
World War II all over again.

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The Builders --Sara Henderson Hay I told them
a thousand times if I told them once Stop
fooling around, I said, with straw and
sticks They wont hold up youre taking an
awful chance. Brick is the stuff to build with,
solid bricks. You want to be impractical, go
ahead. But just remember, I told them wait and
see. Youre making a big mistake. Awright, I
said, But when the wolf comes, dont come running
to me. The funny thing is, they didnt. There
they sat, One in his crummy yellow shack, and
one Under his roof of twigs, and the wolf
ate Them, hair and hide. Well what is done is
done. But Id been willing to help them, all
along, If only theyd once admitted they were
wrong. PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTIONS IN YOUR
POETRY PACKET.

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Term Rhyme
Definition Repeating of two or more words that
sound alike. They can be within a line or at the
end of a line.
Example
D.J. offered Ms. Carter a dime
if she would only give him more time.
To finish his book
So his mother would not give him that look.

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Adventures of Isabel by Odgen Nash

Isabel met a hideous giant, Isabel continued
self reliant. The giant was hairy, the giant was
horrid, He had one eye in the middle of his
forehead. Good morning, Isabel, the giant said,
Ill grind your bones to make my bread. Isabel,
Isabel, didnt worry, Isabel didnt scream or
scurry. She nibbled the zwieback that she always
fed off, And when it was gone, she cut the
giants head off.
Isabel met a troublesome doctor, He punched and
he poked till he really shocked her. The
doctors talk was of coughs and chills And the
doctors satchel bulged with pills. The doctor
said unto Isabel, Swallow this, it will
Isabel, Isabel, didn't worry,Isabel didn't
scream or scurry.She took those pills from the
pill concocter,And Isabel calmly cured the
doctor.

Isabel met an enormous bear, Isabel, Isabel,
didn't care The bear was hungry, the bear was
ravenous, The bear's big mouth was cruel and
cavernous. The bear said, Isabel, glad to meet
you, How do, Isabel, now I'll eat you! Isabel,
Isabel, didn't worry. Isabel didn't scream or
scurry. She washed her hands and she
straightened her hair up, Then Isabel quietly
ate the bear up.
Once in a night as black as pitch Isabel met a
wicked old witch. the witch's face was cross and
wrinkled, The witch's gums with teeth were
sprinkled. Ho, ho, Isabel! the old witch crowed,
I'll turn you into an ugly toad! Isabel,
Isabel, didn't worry, Isabel didn't scream or
scurry, She showed no rage and she showed no
rancor, But she turned the witch into milk and
drank her.

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Messy RoomShel Silverstein

Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
His underwear is hanging on the lamp.
His raincoat is there in the overstuffed chair,
And the chair is becoming quite mucky and damp.
His workbook is wedged in the window,
His sweater's been thrown on the floor.
His scarf and one ski are beneath the TV,
And his pants have been carelessly hung on the
door.
His books are all jammed in the closet,
His vest has been left in the hall.
A lizard named Ed is asleep in his bed.
And his smelly old sock has been stuck to the
wall.
Whosever room this is should be ashamed!
Donald or Robert or Willie or
Huh? You say it's mine? Oh, dear,
I knew it looked familiar!

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Be Glad Your Nose is on Your FaceJack Prelutsky

Be glad your nose is on your face,
not pasted on some other place,
for if it were where it is not,
you might dislike your nose a lot.
Imagine if your precious nose
were sandwiched in between your toes,
that clearly would not be a treat,
for you'd be forced to smell your feet.
Your nose would be a source of dread
were it attached atop your head,
it soon would drive you to despair,
forever tickled by your hair.

Within your ear, your nose would be
an absolute catastrophe,
for when you were obliged to sneeze,
your brain would rattle from the
breeze.
Your nose, instead, through thick and
thin,
remains between your eyes and chin,
not pasted on some other place
be glad your nose is on your face!

In your packet, write your own rhyming poem or a
poem that contains an allusion.

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Term Rhyme Scheme
DEFINITION The pattern of end rhyme in a poem.
First sound is represented as a, the second sound
is designated by b, and so on.
EXAMPLE
Little Bug
In these days of indigestion a
It is often times a question a
As to what to eat and what to leave alone b
For each microbe and bacillus c
Has a different way to kill us c
And in time they always claim us for their own.
B
Rhyme Scheme baabccb

A Happy Time
There was a young fellow named Hall,
Who fell in the spring in the fall
Twould have been a sad thing
If hed died in the spring,
But he didnthe died in the fall.
What is the rhyme scheme for this poem?

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Term Near Rhyme
DEFINITION Rhyme that is close in sound, but
not exactly alike
EXAMPLE
As he walked around the place
His head was in a daze

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Term End Rhyme
DEFINITION Rhyme that occurs at the end of a
line.
Plum and GrapeSome people search the aisle for
plum,Some shop for grape.The expeditions I have
doneHave largely rallied round the plumBut if
the stocker boy was late,To leave me fruitless
with my cart,And not a plum to grace my
plate,I've got some smarts,I'd gulp a grape.

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Term Internal Rhyme
DEFINITION Rhyme that occurs within a line.
EXAMPLE
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,
weak and weary.
--Edgar Allen Poe
The Raven

Write a poem of your choice in your packet. You
may want to try out a limerick or other type of
rhyming poem
Limerick
A humorous poem of five
lines. Look at the rhyming pattern.The
syllabification is 8, 8, 5, 5, 8.
.

An Old Man from Peru
There was an old man from Peru
Who dreamed he was eating a shoe,
He woke up in a fright
In the middle of the night
And found it perfectly true!

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Add this to your definitions.

Term Stanza
DEFINITION A group of consecutive lines in a
poem that form a single unit.
Stanzas based on form are marked by their rhyme
scheme.
Stanzas are known by the number of lines they
contain.
Couplet 2 line stanza
Triplet 3 line stanza
Quatrain 4 line
Quintet 5
Sestet 6
Septet 7
Octave 8
Paragraph Essay Stanza ________

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Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) We Wear the
Mask

WE wear the mask that grins and lies, It
hides our cheeks and shades our eyes, This
debt we pay to human guile With torn and
bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with
myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise, In
counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let
them only see us, while We wear the
mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To
thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but
oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and
long the mile But let the world dream
otherwise, We wear the mask!
ANSWER THE QUESTIONS IN YOUR PACKET.

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Add this to your definitions.

A couplet of friends ?

Couplet
DEFINITION Two consecutive, rhymed lines of
poetry rhyme pattern aa.

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Write a poem on the topic of your choice. Any
style!

Want to try a haiku?
Haiku form
5 syllables
7 syllables
5 syllables

A Rainbow
Donna Brock
Curving up, then down.
Meeting blue sky and green earth
Melding sun and rain.

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Review - Try it first without your notes!

1. What does it mean to have rhythm in poetry?
2. What is a free verse poem?
3. What is an allusion?
4. What is the rhyme scheme of the following
poem?
There was an Old Man with a beard,Who said, 'It
is just as I feared!Two Owls and a Hen,Four
Larks and a Wren,Have all built their nests in
my beard!'
5. What is a near rhyme?
6. Write two couplets that have end rhyme.
What is internal rhyme?
What is similar to a paragraph, but used in
poetry?
Be ready to write any of the different types of
poems that we have written since the last test
and/or identify any of the elements we have
covered since the last test within a poem.

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Warm-Ups
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Cynthia in the SnowGwendolyn Brooks

It SHUSHESIt hushesThe loudness in the road.It
flitter-twitters,And laughs away from me.It
laughs a lovely whiteness,And whitely whirs
away,To beSome otherwhere,Still white as milk
or shirts,So beautiful it hurts.

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Answer the following questions about Cynthia in
the Snow.

What does the author do to make you think of
snow?
2. Give an example of onomatopoeia in this poem.
3. Give an example of personification.
4. Give an example of a simile.
5. Give an example of a metaphor

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Emily Dickinson1763

Fame is a bee. It has a song
It has a sting Ah, too, it has a wing.
In your Poetry Packet (near the back), answer the
following questions
1. What do you think is the meaning of this
poem?
2. Do you agree with it? Why or why not?
3. Write the line that is the metaphor for
this poem.

Using context clues, what do you think amiably
means?
Why might a steam shovel remind the author of a
dinosaur.
3. How do you think the author feels about
dinosaurs? What makes you think that?

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Long Trip

The sea is a wilderness of waves.
A desert of water,
We dip and dive,
Rise and roll,
Hide and are hidden
On the sea.
Day, night,
Night, day,
The sea is a desert of waves.
A wilderness of water
--Langston Hughes

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POETIC FORMS

Haiku
(HI-coo)
The Rose Donna Brock
The red blossom bends
and drips its dew to the ground.
Like a tear it falls

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Fill in the seven syllable line.

5 syllables Green elms in the woods
7 syllables _______________________________
5 syllables Standing tall and proud
Fill in the two five syllable lines.
5 syllables ___________________________
7 syllables The petals bend to the earth
5 syllables ___________________________

Now write at least two of your own
5 syllables ___________________________
7 syllables ___________________________
5 syllables ___________________________
5 syllables ___________________________
7 syllables ___________________________
5 syllables ___________________________
5 syllables ___________________________
7 syllables ___________________________
5 syllables ___________________________

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Concrete Poem

A concrete poem takes on the shape of what it
describes.

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More Concrete Poems
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Diamante Poem

A diamante is a seven line poem, shaped like a
diamond.
squaresymmetrical, conventionalshaping,
measuring, balancingboxes, rooms, clocks,
halosencircling, circumnavigating,
enclosinground, continuouscircle
Line 1 one word (subject/noun that is
contrasting to line 7
Line 2 two words (adjectives) that describe line
1
Line 3 three words (action verbs) that relate to
line 1
Line 4 four words (nouns) first 2 words relate
to line 1last 2 words relate to line 7
Line 5 three words (action verbs) that relate to
line 7
Line 6 two words (adjectives) that describe line
7
Line 7 one work ( subject/noun that is
contrasting to line 1)

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Cinquain

Spaghetti
Messy, spicy
Slurping, sliding, falling
Between my plate and mouth
Delicious
(by Cindy Barden)

Line1 A noun
Line2 Two adjectives
Line 3 Three -ing words
Line 4 A phrase
Line 5 Another word for the noun

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The Wall Pig

There was a pig by a wall
Who was frightened when guests came to call
At the sound of their chatter
His shape became flatter

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Hippo Ballet

A hippo decided on day
That she would take up ballet
So she stood on her toes
And said, Okay here goes!
And fell back with a splash in the bay.

A lady who was smelling a rose
Found a parakeet perched on her nose.
The rose made her sneeze
Which buckled her knees
Now the parakeet sits on her toes.

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Bio Poem

Allison Nicole
Creative, intelligent, fun, responsible,
self-disciplined, and enthusiastic
Sister of Meghan Darby, Melinda, Chris and
Harrison
Loves to create art, make up plays and
commercials, ride Daddy's Harley, and run track
Who needs the telephone, her hair brush, macaroni
and cheese, her friends and family
Who gives her MeMaw much joy, her father and
mother much pride brother and sister love
Who feels joy with her friends, creating art
work, running, watching movies and eating
Who fears going from one room to another, not
doing well on tests, zits and coming in last
Who would like to own a Harley, win the 880, see
her room neat and tidy, win the lottery
Who shares her secrets, her worries, and her love
with MeMaw
Who is an honor roll student, a typical 13-year
old, a friend to Amber, Melissa and Christy
Who is a resident of Jacksonville, Florida
Chase

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Bio Poem

Line 1 Your first name
Line 2 4 traits that describe you
Line 3 brother/sister/son/daughter
Line 4 Lover of (3 people or ideas)
Line 5 Who feels (3 items)
Line 6 Who needs (3 items)
Line 7 Who gives (3 items)
Line 8 Who fears (3 items)
Line 9 Who would like to see (3 items)
Line 10 Resident of your city/ road
Line 11 Your last name

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POETIC FORMS

Add this to your definitions.
Epic
DEFINITION A long narrative poem that tells of
the deeds of a heroic character.

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Add this to your definitions.

Lyric
DEFINITION A poem that expresses the personal
feelings or thoughts of a speaker.
Choose a song that has lyrics that have
particular meaning to you. Explain the meaning
of the song in your own words. Explain how the
song connects to you on a personal level.

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The Secret Heart --Robert Tristram
Coffin Across the years he could
recall His father one way best of all. In the
stillest hour of night The boy awakened to a
light. Half in dreams, he saw his sire With his
great hands full of fire. The man had struck a
match to see If his son slept peacefully. He held
his palms each side the spark His love had
kindled in the dark. His two hands were curved
apart In the semblance of a heart. He wore it
seemed to his small son, A bare heart on his
hidden one, A heart that gave out such a glow No
son awake could bear to know. It showed a look
upon a face Too tender for the day to trace. One
instant, it lit all about, And then the secret
hear went out. But it shone long enough for
one To know that hands held up the son.
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Add this to your definitions.

Ballad
DEFINITION A song or poem that tells a story.

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BALLAD

The first ballads appeared in the 15th century
telling a story. They were often in the form of
popular songs and have simple rhyme schemes and
regular rhythm. They are iambic and some have a
chorus or refrain. Popular rhyme schemes are a b
c b and a b c b d b. Some famous ballads are The
Man From Snowy River by A.B. (Banjo) Patterson)
The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Caroll and
The Rime of The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor
Coleridge. In Australia the 'Bush' ballad is
still popular. No matter what the country, the
folk ballad is quite often the earliest form of
literature and was orally passed down through
generations.

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Add this to your definitions.

Elegy
DEFINITION Poetic form lamenting the death of a
person or decline of a situation.

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MirrorSylvia Plath
I am silver and exact. I have no
preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow
immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or
dislike I am not cruel, only truthful The eye
of a little god, four-cornered. Most of the time
I mediate on the opposite wall. It is pin, with
speckles. I have looked at is so long I think it
is a part of my hear. But it flickers. Faces and
darkness separate us over and over. Now I am a
lake. A woman bends over me. Searching my
reaches for what she really is. Then she turns to
those liars, the candles or the moon. I see her
back, and reflect it faithfully She rewards me
with tears and agitation of hands. I am important
to her. She comes and goes. Each morning it is
her face that replaces the darkness. In me she
has drowned a young girl, and in me an old
woman Rises toward her day after day, like a
terrible fish.
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Mother to Son by Langston Hughes

Well, son, I'll tell you
Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.It's had
tacks in i,And splinters,And boards torn up,And
places wth no carpet on the floorBare.But all
the time I'se been a-climbin' on,And reachin'
landin's,And turnin' corners,And sometimes
goin' in the darkWhere there ain't been no
light.So, boy, don't you turn back.Don't you
set down on the steps.'Cause you finds it's
kinder hard.Don't you fall nowFor I'se still
goin', honey,I'se still climbin',And life for
me ain't been no crystal stair.

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Some Shakespeare
Cowards die many times before their deaths The
valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the
wonders that I yet have heard. It seems to me
most strange that men should fear Seeing that
death, a necessary end, Will come when it will
come. --Shakespeare
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The Road Not Taken-Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I
could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I
stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo
where it bent in the undergrowth.Then took the
other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the
better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted
wearThough as for that the passing thereHad
worn them really about the same.And both that
morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden
black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet
knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I
should ever come back.I shall be telling this
with a sighSomewhere ages and ages henceTwo
roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one
less traveled by,And that has made all the
difference.
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Identity---Julio Noboa Polanco
Let them be as flowers, always watered, fed,
guarded, admired, but harnessed to a pot of
dirt. I'd rather be a tall, ugly weed, clinging
on cliffs, like an eagle wind-wavering above
high, jagged rocks. To have broken through the
surface of stone, to live, to feel exposed to
the madness of the vast, eternal sky. To be
swayed by the breezes of an ancient sea,
carrying my soul, my seed, beyond the mountains
of time or into the abyss of the bizarre I'd
rather be unseen, and if then shunned by
everyone, than to be a pleasant-smelling flower,
growing in clusters in the fertile valleys,
where they're praised, handled, and plucked by
greedy, human hands. I'd rather smell of musty,
green stench than of sweet, fragrant lilac. If
I could stand alone, strong and free, I'd rather
be a tall, ugly weed.
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All the world's a stage, And all the men and
women merely players, They have their exits and
entrances, And one man in his time plays many
parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the
infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's
arms. Then the whining schoolboy, with his
satchel And shining morning face, creeping like
snail Unwillingly to school. And then the
lover, Sighing like a furnace, with a woeful
ballad Made to mistress' eyebrow. Then a
soldier. Full of strange oaths, and bearded like
the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in
quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in
the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair
round belly with good capon lined, With eyes
severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws
and modern instances And so he plays his part.
The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered
pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on
side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too
wide, For his shrunk shank and his big manly
voice, Turning again towards the childish treble,
pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of
all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is
second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans
teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
The Seven Ages of Man-William Shakespeare
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We Real CoolGwendolyn Brooks
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late.
We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin.
We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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As you read today, make a list of words and
phrases that are important to the story your are
reading.

From Beastly
my sanctuary
bathed in moonlight
Id lost everything there was to loose
I wanted him to fear
you can have her
beautiful
sometimes, unexpected things can happen
its my only chance

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Found Poem

Sanctuary Lost, Hope Found
my only sanctuary
violated
an intruder
bathed in moonlight
Id lost everything
there was to loose
I wanted him to fear
I drew near
you can have her he offered
beautiful
sometimes, unexpected things can happen
my only chance

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Look back over your list and cut out everything
that is dull, or unnecessary --think about the
tone that you want to convey
Make any minor changes necessary to create your
poem. You can change punctuation and make little
changes to the words to make them fit together
(such as change the tenses, possessives, plurals,
and capitalizations).
If you absolutely need to add a word or two to
make the poem flow more smoothly.
Arrange the words so that they make a rhythm you
like. You can space words out so that they are
all alone or all run together.
You can also put key words on lines by
themselves.
Emphasize words by playing with boldface and
italics, different sizes of letters, and so
forth.
Choose a title not Found Poem!
Write a final copy of your poem and keep it for
later use.
At the bottom of the poem, tell where the words
in the poem came from.

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Grue

Is a comically sadistic and grisly little poem of
four lines. Coined by Robert Louis Stevenson, the
word comes from gruesome.
Rhyme scheme is aabb.
Henry Graham wrote a collection of grues called
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes under the
pseudonym Col. D. Streamer.