POETRYexpress ideas,

feelings, or tell a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)

Poetry structure

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POETRY STRUCTURE

LINE - a group of words together on one line of the poemSTANZA - a group of lines arranged together

VERSE – a line in from a poem.

Capitalization and Punctuation- rules of capitalization and punctuation are not always followed. Minor letters indented mean they are part of the line above.

LinePlaced one side to another.It has NO relation with a sentence.Determines the meter and rhyme.

Stanza

-Group of lines.-Like a paragraph.-Develops an idea.

Class Dismissedby Bruce Lansky

(We have broken all the blackboardsso the teachers cannot write.We have painted all the toilets blackand all the lockers white.We have torn up all the math booksand we've locked the school's front door.There won't be school no more. Glory, glory hallelujah!

• Prose is writing distinguished from poetry by its greater variety of rhythm and its like an everyday speech.

• Tone is the attitude you feel in it — the writer's attitude toward the subject or audience.

Example: In an antiwar poem, you may feel protest or moral indignation

• Mood how does the author make you feel. • Voice - how would you describe the poet's "voice"

in the poem? Is the poet speaking in a character? In a sense, all writers speak in a character, so even if you feel that the voice in the poem is the poet's own voice

SoundDevices outline rhyme, rhyme scheme, assonance, consonance and alliteration with one color.

-rhythm -meter another color-onomatopoeia

In English we work with sounds

and not with letters!

Meter

It’s the rhythmical pattern. It’s determined by the

stresses, or beats, in each line.

Division of syllables is needed.

Rhythm

Rhythm is a pattern that forms a beat.

RHYMEWords sound alike because they share the same vowel or consonant sounds.

LAMP STAMP

Rhyme Schemea pattern of rhyme in a

poem.

Heavy is my heart, aDark are thine eyes bThou and I must part aEre the sun rise b

Rhyme Scheme- The pattern in which end rhyme occurs

• Example:

Continuous as the stars that shine (a) And twinkle on the milky way, (b) They stretched in never-ending line (a)Along the margin of a bay: (b)Ten thousand saw I at a glance, (c) Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. (c)

Class Dismissedby Bruce Lansky

(We have broken all the blackboardsso the teachers cannot write.We have painted all the toilets blackand all the lockers white.We have torn up all the math booksand we've locked the school's front door.There won't be school no more.Glory, glory hallelujah!School is closed now, what's it to ya?There won't be no more homeworkand there won't be no more tests.There won't be school no more.

Types of Rhyme

Alliteration Repetition of the initial consonant

sound“She sells seashells at the sea shore”

ALLITERATIONConsonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

If Stu chews shoes, should Stu choose the shoes he chews?

I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.

I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. And on a slitted sheet I sit. I slit a sheet, a sheet I slit. The sheet I slit, that sheet was it.

Assonance•The repetition of a vowel sound in two or more words in the line of a poem •

• Example: “Which is the bliss of solitude”

ASSONANCERepeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of poetry.

(Often creates near rhyme.)

Lake Fate Base Fade (All share the long “a” sound.)

ASSONANCE cont.Examples of ASSONANCE:“Slow the low gradual moan came in

the snowing.”- John Masefield

“Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep.”

- William Shakespeare

CONSONANCESimilar to alliteration EXCEPT . . .

The repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words

“silken, sad, uncertain, rustling . . “

OnomatopoeiaA word whose sound imitates its meaning

More onomatopoeia“The bee buzzed by my ear “

“The clock ticked down the final hour”

“The engine purred while awaiting the green light”

Figurative Language

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MetaphorsMakes Comparisons Between

Two Unrelated Subjects

Expands the Sense and Clarifies Meaning

What Is A Metaphor?

Heart of stone

Apple of my eye

Rolling in Dough

Light of My Life

Winds of Change

You’re Ice

cold

The Sweet Smell of Success

I Smell a Rat

Let the Cat Out of the Bag

Love is Blind

The World Is a Stage… Bite the

Bullet

SimileA comparison using like or as“Life is like a box of chocolates”

PersonificationGiving human qualities to an inanimate object“The moon smiled down on the lovers”

Imagery•Representation of the five senses: sight, taste, touch, sound, and smell •Creates mental images about a poem’s subject • Example: “Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way”

HyperboleExaggeration often used for emphasis.

He's got tons of money.

Her brain is the size of a pea.

He is older than the hills.

I will die if she asks me to dance.

She is as big as an elephant!

I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.

I have told you a million times not to lie!

Allegory

A is a figure of speech in which abstract ideas and principles are described in terms of characters, figures and events. The objective of its use is to preach some kind of a moral lesson.

SOME TYPES OF POETRYWE WILL BE STUDYINGoutline with different

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Acrostic poemA poem in which the first letter of each word forms a word- usually a name-if read downward.

coupletTwo lines of poetry that rhyme and usually form one complete idea.

HAIKU

A Japanese poem written in three lines

Five SyllablesSeven SyllablesFive Syllables

An old silent pond . . .A frog jumps into the

pond.Splash! Silence again.

Quatrain poemA stanza made up of four lines, often containing a rhyme scheme.

SOMEDAY

Change comes Abruptly suddenBeyond concerns:A final sum.

Cinquain poemA cinquain poem has five lines. The word comes from the French cinq,which means five.

Cinquain poems have the following pattern:Line 1 2 syllablesLine 2 4 syllablesLine 3 6 syllablesLine 4 8 syllablesLine 5 2 syllables

cinquainAlternative versionLine 1 1 wordLine 2 2 wordsLine 3 3 wordsLine 4 4 wordsLine 5 1 word

Ode poemA poem that celebrates or praises something. Its stanza forms vary.

NARRATIVE POEMSA poem that tells a story.Generally longer than the lyric styles of poetry b/c the poet needs to establish characters and a plot.

CONCRETE POEMSIn concrete poems, the words are arranged to create a picture that relates to the content of the poem.

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