The Different Types of Poetry

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The Different Typesof Poetry

• 7th Grade English

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What is Poetry?

• A Short piece of imaginative writing in many
  different forms.
• An attempt to in understanding the world around
  us in
• This is done by using our human thoughts to
  words.

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Types of Poetry

• A very large amount of different styles.
• Different types of poetry are found at
• http//www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/types.ht
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• Which one is your favorite?
• Could you write a POEM?

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What is a Poem?

• An act of Discovery
• A written expression of different emotions and
  ideas.
• They arrange in different words and verses.
• They are usually written rhythmically.

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Examples of Poems

• My River a poem
• by Emily Dickinson
• My river runs to thee. Blue sea, wilt thou
  welcome me?My river awaits reply.Oh! sea, look
  graciously.Ill fetch thee brooksfrom spotted
  nooks.Say, sea, Take me!

• A Marriage Made in Heaven
• Mr Camel and Miss Dromedary were marriedAnd in
  time a baby was due.Said Mrs Camel to her
  beloved'Would you prefer one hump or two?'

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Some Mechanics of Poetry

• Broken Rhyme
• Dividing the word at the end of a line to make a
  rhyme.
• For example To Rhyme the word pain with
  raincoat you must carry the word coat to the
  next line.
• There is nothing quite so im-polite as yawning
  in a church.

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Some Mechanics of Poetry

• Chain Rhyme
• During the rhyming, the first line matched the
  rhyme in the second line.
• Trapped within a haze of fear,
• The Lord of Lies does appear.

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Some Mechanics of Poetry

• Meter
• Measure of different rhymes
• The unit of meter is the foot
• Metrical lines are named for the number of feet
  in a line.
• (1) monometer, (2) dimeter, (3) trimeter, (4)
  tetrameter, (5) pentameter, (6) hexameter, (7)
  heptameter (8) octameter

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Some Mechanics of Poetry

• Pause
• Spaces between the syllables of a verse in the
  different rhymes.
• Hear a sample of the different ways pauses can
  be used.

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Some Mechanics of Poetry

• Stress
• Special focus on a word, syllable, or phrase with
  a line of the verse.
• For Example
• On the first syllable if the word has two
  syllables. e.g.
• Hear a sample of the different ways stress can
  be used.

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Some Mechanics of Poetry

• Versification
• This is the method of using meter and rhyme and
  creating it into your own art
• The art of writing verses
• There are different Versifications such as the
• Quantitive Versification
• Syllabic Versification
• Accentual Versification

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Figures of Speech

• Imagery
• Words that are used to create an image, figure,
  person, place, or thing.
• Allows the reader to feel more interested by the
  image in their head.
• Helps the reader understand the feelings the
  author is trying to tell you.

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Figures of Speech

• Imagery Poem Represented in a Video

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Figures of Speech

• Irony
• Words that are used to create an opposite meaning
• These are the different types of Irony
• Verbal Irony
• Dramatic Irony
• Situational Irony
• Ironic Similes
• As hairy as a pinball
• As cold as a fire in the forest

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Figures of Speech

• Metaphor
• A word that is used to make two things that are
  not the same equal.
• Connects to unrelated subjects
• "The universe is God's playground.
• All the world's a stage, And all the men and
  women merely players They have their exits and
  their entrances. (Shakespeare)

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Figures of Speech

• Oxymoron
• Two words are joined together to make an opposite
  meaning.
• They offer unique wordings such as
• Living deaths, freezing fires, deafening silence,
  and pretty ugly
• "And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true"

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Figures of Speech

• Hmmm So Does this mean..
• Freezing fire?
• Living Death?
• Ummm
• Possibly!

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Figures of Speech

• Personification
• This is a form of a Metaphor.
• It uses objects, animals, or an idea to give a
  human-like characteristic.
• Gives emotions, desires, sensations and physical
  gestures to these objects.

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Figures of Speech

• Prose
• Tell your classroom neighbor something
  interesting.
• You have just used some Prose.
• ordinary or plain everyday language
• This everyday language is used in a speech or a
  writing with no patterns or rhymes

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Figures of Speech

• Pun
• The play of words that creates a sound or lines
  of humorous effect.

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Figures of Speech

• Repetition
• Repeating a sound, line, syllable, phrase etc.
• Brings help to the meaning of a poem.
• "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on
  the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields
  and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills
  we shall never surrender. (Churchill)

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Figures of Speech

• Rhyme
• A repetition of identical or similar sounds in
  two or more different words
• This is most often used in poetrys and songs.
• Hear a sample of the different ways rhymes can be
  used in a song.

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Figures of Speech

• Simile
• A comparison between two unlike things using
  like or as.
• As brave as My love is like a
  As fat as a

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Objectives

• You should now have a better understanding of
  Poetry.
• You should be able to write a Poem.
• You should now understand the Mechanics of
  Poetry.
• You should now understand the different Figures
  of Speech.

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Audience

• As a 7th grade class you have learned some of
  important elements of Poetry through English, Art
  and History.
• Could you now write a poem?
• Could you read poems in different ways?
• Lets get started!