Poetry

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Poetry

• Vocabulary

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Poetry

• Poetry is literature that uses a few words to
  tell about ideas, feelings and paints a picture
  in the readers mind.
• Most poems were written to be read aloud.
• Poems may or may not rhyme.

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Form

• The form of a poem is the way that it looks on
  the page.

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What a poem looks like

• Bad Hair Day
• I looked in the mirror
• with shock and with dread
• to discover two antlers
• had sprung from my head.

line
Stanza
Rhyming words
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Lines

• The way that poets arrange words into lines.
• The lines may or may not be sentences.

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Stanzas

• Groups of lines in traditional poetry.

What Bugs Me When my teacher tells me to
write a poem.When my mother tells me to clean up
my room.When my sister practices her violin
while Im watching TV.When my father tells me to
turn off the TV and do my homework.When my
brother picks a fight with me and I have to go to
bed early.When my teacher asks me to get up in
front of the class and read the poem I wrote on
the school bus.
Stanza
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Free Verse

• Poems that do not usually rhyme and have no fixed
  rhythm or pattern. They are written like a
  conversation.

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Sound Devices

• Elements of poetry that use one type of sound
  related characteristic.
• Rhyme
• Rhythm
• Onomatopoeia
• Meter and more.......

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Meter
A pattern of stressed and unstressed
syllables. Meter occurs when the stressed and
unstressed syllables of the words in a poem are
arranged in a repeating pattern. When poets write
in meter, they count out the number of stressed
(strong) syllables and unstressed (weak)
syllables for each line. They repeat the pattern
throughout the poem.
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Rhyme

• Sounds that are alike at the end of words, such
  as snow and crow.
• There are several types of rhyme such as end
  rhyme like run and fun. Internal rhyme such as
• Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered
  weak and weary.
• Near Rhyme- words that do not exactly rhyme such
  as rose and lose.

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Sample Rhyme scheme

• The Germ by Ogden Nash
• A mighty creature is the germ,
• Though smaller than the pachyderm.
• His customary dwelling place
• Is deep within the human race.
• His childish pride he often pleases
• By giving people strange diseases.
• Do you, my poppet, feel infirm?
• You probably contain a germ.

A A B B C C A a
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Alliteration

• Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of
  words
• If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
  how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

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Onomatopoeia

• Words that imitate the sound they are naming
• BUZZ
• OR sounds that imitate another sound
• The silken, sad, uncertain, rustling of
  
• each purple curtain . . .

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Rhythm

• The beat of the poem.
• These are made up patterns of strong and weak
  syllables.

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Repetition

• The repeating of sounds, words, phrases, or lines
  in a poem.
• I like popcorn!
• I like candy!
• I like chips!
• I like ice cream!
• I need to brush my teeth!

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Figurative Language and other poetic devices

• Figurative language
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Hyperbole
• Idiom
• Personification

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Figurative Language

• Words and phrases that help the reader picture
  things in a new way.
• Example
• She heard music when he kissed her.

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Imagery

• Words or phrases that appeal to the five senses
  sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.
• Imagery is what helps you paint a picture or
  imagine what is happening or what the poet is
  feeling.
• Example The hamburgers sizzled on the grill

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Simile

• A comparison of two things using the words like
  or as.
• Her smile was bright like the sun!
• The peach was as delicious as a kiss.
• My dog is as mean as a snake.

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Metaphor

• A comparison of two things WITHOUT using as or
  like
• His face is a puzzle to me, I can never figure
  out what he is thinking.

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Personification

• Giving an animal or an object human qualities.
• My dog smiles at me.
• The house glowed with happiness.
• The car was irritated when she pumped it full of
  cheap gas.

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Tone

• The writer's attitude toward his readers and his
  subject his mood or moral view. A writer can be
  formal, informal, playful, ironic, and
  especially, optimistic or pessimistic.

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Assonance

• Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of
  poetry
• Examples of ASSONANCE
• Slow the low gradual moan came in the snowing.
• John Masefield
• Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep.
• - William Shakespeare

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Symbolism

• When a person, place, thing, or event that has
  meaning in itself also represents, or stands for,
  something else.

Innocence America Peace
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Idiom

• An expression where the literal meaning of the
  words is not the meaning of the expression. It
  means something other than what it actually says.
• Ex. Its raining cats and dogs.

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Hyperbole

• obvious and intentional exaggeration
• EX There are a million people in here!
• I could sleep for a year!
• I have a ton of homework tongight!

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No Where Near the End!!!

• There is so much more to poetry....we have only
  scratched the surface.....