Poetry

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Poetry
Poems
Poetry Terms

• Myths
• Always Rhymes
• Always Boring
• Always About Love
• Always Hate It

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Poetry

• Literature that uses few words to express
  feelings and ideas painting a picture with words
• Written to be shared
• May or may not rhyme

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Poem Types

• Shape Poetry
• Name-shape
• Peace Poem
• Syllable Poetry
• Haiku
• Cinquain

• Grammar Poetry
• Diamonte
• Ballads Lyrics
• Limerick
• Songs
• Epics
• ?Prose

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Shape Poetry

• Name-shape Poem about the shape of your name
• Peace Poem Poem about your how you feel about
  peace (peace on earth, peace in the world, peace
  in communities, peace in our homes, etc.)

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Syllable Poetry

• Haiku a Japanese form of poetry with 3 unrhymed
  lines of 5-7-5 syllables
• Cinquain a Japanese adapted version a five-lined
  poem which can be one of the following
• A grammar poem lines contain 1subject, 22 adj,
  3
• A syllable poem
• A word poem

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Grammar Poetry

• Diamonte

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Ballads Lyrics

• Limerick a humorous poem of five lines with a
  rhyme scheme of aabba
• Song (lyrics) designed to be sung where a single
  emotional element (1 subject) which reminds the
  reader/listener of their own experiences
• Ballad a narrative poem in which the story
  usually consists of folklore or legends
• Epic poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero
• Prose Ordinary or regular writing without
  metrical structure

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Devices Figurative Language

• Alliteration
• Form
• Imagery
• Lines
• Meaning
• Metaphor
• Meter
• Mood
• Onomatopoeia

• Personification
• Repetition
• Rhyme
• Rhythm
• Simile
• Stanza
• Symbolism
• Tone

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Alliteration

• Noun Verb Noun
• Dogs destroy dinosaurs
• Add adjectives and adverbs
• Dirty dreaming DOGS dizzily DESTROY dangerous
  damp dreary DINOSAURS.
• Add conjunctions and preps/prep phrases
• Dirty dreaming dogs dizzily destroy dangerous
  damp dreary dinosaurs down disgustingly damp
  dungeons during dismal December days.
• Assonance repetition of vowel sounds
• Consonance repetition of consonant sounds

http//library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/alliteratio
nclassics.html
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Form

• The way it looks on the page
• Varying types from free verse to limericks to
  narrative poetry, etc.

http//thewordshop.tripod.com/forms.html
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Imagery

• Vivid descriptions of things seen. Imagery is
  related to sensory language, which appeals to all
  the senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and
  touch.
• Can be any combination of the senses

http//www.maryfumento.com/poetry/imagery.html
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Lines

• Lines are similar to sentences.

• There are strange things done in the midnight
  sun    By the men who moil for goldThe Arctic
  trails have their secret tales    That would
  make your blood run coldThe Northern Lights
  have seen queer sights,    But the queerest they
  ever did seeWas that night on the marge of Lake
  Lebarge    I cremated Sam McGee.

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http//www.arcticwebsite.com/ServiceCremation.html
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Meaning
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Metaphor

• His eyes were the blue sky.
• The umbrella was a roof over my head.
• A Metaphor is comparing 2 unlike things without
  using the words like or as

• Fog, by Carl Sandburg
• The fog comes
• On little cat feet.
• It sits looking
• Over harbor and city
• On silent haunches
• And then moves on.

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Meter

• reoccurring pattern of stressed and unstressed
  syllables
• Iambic pentameter 10 syllables per line

• Poems
• Practice
• Notes
• More Notes

http//www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/2
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http//www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xmeter.html
http//www.writing.upenn.edu/afilreis/88/meter.ht
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Mood
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Onomatopoeia

• Words that sound like their meanings words which
  imitate sound
• hiss, buzz, rattle, bang, boom, swoosh, zip, pop,
  sizzle, gurgle, crackle, snap

• Cafeteria Boom!Went the foodtrays. Clap!
  Clap!Goes the teacher.

http//library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/omomatopoea
.html
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Personification

• Giving an animal or an object human
  characteristics
• Examples The wind howled in anger around the
  house.
• The stapler bit the piece of paper fiercely.
• The armchair hugged me as I sat down.

Two Sunflowers Move in the Yellow Room. "Ah,
William, we're weary of weather,"said the
sunflowers, shining with dew."Our traveling
habits have tired us.Can you give us a room with
a view?"
http//library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/personifica
tionclassics.html
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Repetition

• Repeating of words, phrases, lines, or stanzas
• Example from The Cremation of Sam McGee by
  Robert Service

• Life Doesnt Frighten Me by Maya Angelou
• (repeats a line)
• Whatif
• By Shel Silverstein
• (repeats a word)

http//www.swaraj.org/shikshantar/life_mayaangelou
.htm
http//www.qu-i-x.com/whatif.html
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Rhyme

• rhyme similar ending sounds between words
• end rhyme words at end of lines that rhyme
  (couplets)
• internal rhyme words which rhyme within the same
  line

• Hed salivate and slobber
• as his nose began to twitch.
• Hed squirm and say his body felt
• like one gigantic itch.

from Alexs Allergy by Kenn Nesbitt
http//www.gigglepoetry.com/poem.aspx?PoemID630C
ategoryID29
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Rhythm

• A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
• Synonym for meter.

We Real Cool by Gwendolyn Brooks

• We REAL COOL.
• We LEFT SCHOOL.
• We LURK LATE.
• We STRIKE STRAIGHT. We

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Simile

• His eyes were as blue as the sky.
• His eyes were blue like the sky.
• A simile is comparing 2 unlike things using the
  words like or as

• Surprise, by Jean Little
• I feel like the ground in winter,
• Hard, cold, dark, dead, unyielding.

http//library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/simileclass
ics.html
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Stanza

• Stanzas are like paragraphs.

• There are strange things done in the midnight
  sun    By the men who moil for goldThe Arctic
  trails have their secret tales    That would
  make your blood run coldThe Northern Lights
  have seen queer sights,    But the queerest they
  ever did seeWas that night on the marge of Lake
  Lebarge    I cremated Sam McGee.

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http//www.arcticwebsite.com/ServiceCremation.html
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Symbolism

• The lightening is a yellow Fork
• From tables in the sky
• By inadvertent fingers dropt
• the awful Cutlery 
• Of Mansion never quite disclosed
• And never quite concealed
• The Apparatus of the Dark
• To ignorance revealed. 

• The Lightening Is A Yellow Fork
• by Emily Dickinson
• (1830 - 1886) 

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faculty.rcoe.appstate.edu/smithtw/Craft_Minilesson
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Tone
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Poets
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Poems
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Websites
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