PoetryPoetry

Vocabulary

1. Alliteration:– Repetition of initial

consonant sounds– Example: Sister Suzy sat on

the seashore until suddenly she was swallowed by a shark.

2. 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 story4.Blank Verse:

– Poetry written in unrhymed, iambic pentameter.

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

suggests its subject– Example: George Herbert’s

Easter Wings and The Alter

6. Figurative Language:– Writing that is not

meant to be taken literally

– Example: He made me so mad I wanted to die.

7. Free Verse:– Poetry not written in a

regular rhythmical pattern or meter

8. Image:– A word or phrase that appeals

to one or more of the five senses

9. Lyric Poem:– Highly musical verse that

expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker

10.Metaphor:– A figure of speech in which

something is described as though it were something else

– Example: He is such a pig when he eats!

11. Mood:– The feeling created in the reader

by a literary work12. Onomatopoeia:

– The use of words that imitate sounds

– Example: The buzz of the bee was very loud.

13.Personification:– A type of figurative language in

which a non-human subject is given human characteristics

– Example: The tree waved excitedly in the wind.

14. Repetition:– The use, more than once, of any

element of language

15. Rhyme:– Repetition of sounds at the end

of words– Example: Roses are red, violets are

blue…..

16. Rhyme Scheme:– A regular pattern of

rhyming words in a poem

17. Rhythm:– Pattern of beats or stresses

in spoken or written language

18. Simile:– A figure of speech that

uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas

19. Stanza:– A formal division of lines in a

poem considered as a unit

My love is like a red rose.

20. Motif – Main or reoccurring theme.

21. Extended Metaphor – a comparison developed over several lines of poetry.

22. Pun – Double

meaning

23. Confessional poetry – confession of an activity or an emotion.

24. Elegy – Pays tribute to a person (usually dead)

25. Imagist poetry – uses lots of images to paint a picture for the reader.

Humor• Humor in poetry can

arise from a number of sources:

–Surprise–Exaggeration–Bringing together

of unrelated things• Most funny poems have

two things in common:–Rhythm–Rhyme

Rhythm & Rhyme• Using more spirited language

makes humorous situations even more humorous“The Porcupine”

By Ogden Nash

Any hound a porcupine nudgesCan’t be blamed for harboring

grudges.I know one hound that laughed

all winterAt a porcupine that sat on a

splinter.

If you take away the rhythm and rhyme, the humor

vanishes.

Any hound that touches a porcupine

Can’t be blamed for holding a grudge

I know one hound that laughed all winter long

At a porcupine that sat on a piece of wood

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.

LimericksThere once was a man with no

hair.He gave everyone quite a scare.

He got some Rogaine,Grew out a mane,

And now he resembles a bear!

Limerick About a BeeI wish that my room had a

floor,I don’t care so much for a

door.But this walking around

Without touching the groundIs getting to be quite a bore.

Another Limerick

There once was a very small mouse

Who lived in a very small house,The ocean’s sprayWashed 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 ___________.

The class Limerick:There once was a _____ from _____.All the while she/he hoped ________.

So she/he ____________________,And ________________________,

That _________ from ___________.

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