Ms. Delgado and Dr. Gonzalez 7th Grade

What is poetry all about?

WHAT IS POETRY?

•Poems are made up of words that create images or pictures in our minds.•Many poems sound like songs when you read them aloud. This is because some poems have a regular rhythm and repeated lines, words or sounds.

WHAT IS POETRY?

•Poems have shorter lines than most sorts of writing. The words of a poem may be written in short sentences or lists. Sometimes, poems may be shaped to represent a topic, or they might be scattered all over the page.

WHAT IS POETRY?•There are no special topics for poems. They can be about mosquitoes, babies, the sea, supermarkets, friends, skateboards, mountains, anything at all.

WHAT IS POETRY?

•Poems can be conversations, statements, stories or descriptions. They can be serious or funny. They are written for many purposes: to describes something, to tell a story, to explain feelings.

WHAT IS POETRY?

•The words in a poem must have meaning for the reader. They are not simply words scattered on a page. The meaning of a poem will vary from one poem to another, and from one reader to another.

Poetry

Features of Poems

FEATURES OF POEMSPoems have meaning.

•Poems can describe an interesting place or person, tell a story or explain feelings.

POEMS FEATURES Poems have sounds.

Poems sound different from other types of writing. Poems may have rhyming words, a regular rhythm like music, words with repeated sounds, or even words that sound like their meaning.

FEATURES OF POEMSPoems have images.

Poems create pictures in our mind, called images. Images often refer to our sense of sight, smell, sound, taste and touch. An image may describe something, or it may compare one thing to another. Images help you see something as if it is really there.

FEATURES OF POETRY

Poems have lines. Poems have lines that may be

long or short, and can be made up of whole sentences or sentence fragments. Some poems have lines arranged in stanzas. A stanza is a group of lines that are arranged in a definite pattern. In other poems, the lines make a picture or shape to illustrate the topic.

FEATURES OF POETRY

Poems have patterns. Poems have patterns of letters, syllables and words. These patterns often help you to hear the rhythm of a poem. Some types of poems have patterns with a particular number of syllables in each line, and others have words repeated throughout the poem.

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Vocabulary

1.Alliteration:Repetition of initial consonant

sounds2.Allusion:

A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

3.Ballad:A song-like poem that tells a story

4.Blank Verse:Poetry written in unrhymed, ten-

syllable lines

5.Concrete Poem:A poem with a shape that suggests

its subject

6.Figurative Language:Writing that is not meant to be taken

literally

7.Free Verse:Poetry not written in a regular

rhythmical pattern or meter

8.Haiku:•A three-lined Japanese verse

9.Image:A word or phrase that appeals to one or

more of the five senses10. Limerick:A limerick is a five-line poem in or meter

with a strict rhyme scheme, which intends to be witty or humorous.

11. Lyric Poem:Highly musical verse that expresses the

observations and feelings of a single speaker

12. Metaphor:A figure of speech in which

something is described as though it were something else.

13. Mood:The feeling created in the reader

by a literary work.

14. Narrative Poem:A story told in verse

15. Onomatopoeia:The use of words that imitate

sounds

16. Personification:A type of figurative language in

which a non-human subject is given human characteristics.

17. Refrain:A regularly repeated line or group of

lines in a poem.

18. Repetition:The use, more than once, of any

element of language.

19. Rhyme:Repetition of sounds at the end of

words.

20. Rhyme Scheme:A regular pattern of rhyming

words in a poem.21. Rhythm:

Pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language.22. Simile:

A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas.

My love is like a red rose.

23.Stanza:A formal division of lines in a poem

considered as a unit

LIMERICKS•A limerick is a poem of five lines•The first, second, and fifth lines have three rhythmic beats and rhyme with one another.•The third and fourth lines have two beats and rhyme with one another.•They are always light-hearted, humorous poems.

Another Limerick

• There once was a very small mouse

• Who lived in a very small house,• The ocean’s spray• Washed it away,

• All that was left was her blouse!

YOU WILL CREATE A LIMERICK SIMILAR

TO THIS ONE…There once was a man from Beijing.

All his life he hoped to be King.So he put on a crown,

Which quickly fell down.That small silly man from Beijing.

FILL IN THE BLANKS AND CREATE YOUR

OWN LIMERICK.There once was a _____ from _____.All the while she/he hoped ________.

So she/he ____________________,And ________________________,

That _________ from ___________.