POETRY
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✤A type of literature that expresses
ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a
specific form (usually using lines and
stanzas)
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POET
The poet is the author of the poem.
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SPEAKER
The speaker of the poem is the “narrator”
of the poem.
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• FORM - the appearance of the words on the
page
• LINE - a group of words together on one line
of the poem
• STANZA - a group of lines arranged together
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
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✤Rhythm:
• The beat created by the sounds of
the words in a poem.
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End Rhyme
• A word at the end of one line rhymes
with a word at the end of another line
Hector the Collector
Collected bits of string.
Collected dolls with broken heads
And rusty bells that would not ring.
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★Rhyme Scheme
• A rhyme scheme is a pattern of rhyme (usually
end rhyme, but not always).
• Use the letters of the alphabet to represent
sounds to be able to visually “see” the pattern.
(See next slide for an example.)
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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.
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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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★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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★Consonance
• Similar to alliteration EXCEPT . . .
• The repeated consonant sounds can be
anywhere in the words
• “silken, sad, uncertain, rustling .. .”
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★Assonance
• Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines
of poetry.
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The mouse ran up the clock,
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down,
Hickory Dickory Dock!
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★Repetition or Refrain
• A sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly
in a poem.
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The mouse ran up the clock,
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down,
Hickory Dickory Dock!
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•Types of Poetry
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★Haiku
A Japanese poem
written in three lines
Five Syllables
Seven Syllables
Five Syllables
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An old silent pond . . .
A frog jumps into the pond.
Splash! Silence again.
★Limerick
A 5 line poem that almost always
are humorous.
Lines 1, 2, and 5 rhyme and are
longer than lines 3 and 4.
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★Cinquain Poetry
A five line poem
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Moon
Moon
Dark, holes
Moving, changing, repeating
The moon revolves around the
earth in one month.
Giant rock
★Narrative Poem
• A poem that tells a story.
• Generally longer than the lyric styles of poetry
b/c the poet needs to establish characters and a
plot.
Examples of Narrative
Poems
“The Highwayman”
“Casey at the Bat”
“The Walrus and the
Carpenter”
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★Concrete Poetry
• In concrete poems, the words are arranged to
create a picture that relates to the content of
the poem.
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• Figurative Language and
other Poetic Devices
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★Simile
• A comparison of two things using
“like or as.”
• “She is as beautiful as a sunrise.”
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★Metaphor
• direct comparison of two unlike things
The harvest moon is a great pumpkin in the sky.
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★Hyperbole
• Exaggeration often used for emphasis.
Example in poetry:
Why does a boy who’s fast as a jet
Take all day—and sometimes two—
To get to school?
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★Idiom or Expression
• 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. It’s raining cats and dogs.
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★Personification
• An animal given
human-like qualities
or an object given
life-like qualities.
Example:
The teddy bear smiled
as the little boy held him close.
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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
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America
=
Peace