Power Point Poetry Portfolio ProjectRebeca Haun

Line Basic unit of poetry

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all-Emily Dickinson

Stanza Stanzas are like paragraphs in writing.

They are groups of lines, usually 4 lines.“Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul -And sings the tune without the words -And never stops - at all -

And sweetest in the Gale is heardAnd sore must be the storm That could abash the little BirdThat kept so many warm

I’ve heard it in the chillest land And on the strangest Sea Yet never in Extremity,It asked a crumb of me.-Emily Dickinson

Phrasing Phrasing is how statements can be

broken down in a poem.

I’ve heard it in the chillest land And on the strangest Sea Yet never in Extremity, It asked a crumb of me.

Words Words are what make up a poem. There are many ways to use words; for

rhyme, for rhythm, to make sentences longer.

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all

And sweetest in the Gale is heard And sore must be the storm That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm

I’ve heard it in the chillest land And on the strangest Sea Yet never in Extremity, It asked a crumb of me.

Rhyme/Rhyme Sceme Rhyme in poetry is when the last words of a

line sound alike to another last word in the same stanza. Rhyme scheme is the rhyming pattern.

And sweetest in the Gale is heard And sore must be the storm That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warmRhyme scheme: a,b,a,b

Alliteration Alliteration is the repetition

of a sound in a poem. "Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified…”-V for Vendetta

Onomatopoeia A word used to represent a sound of a

noise or action. Bang! Hiss Squish

Rhythm Arrangement of words into a more or less regular sequence of stressed and unstressed or long and short syllables.

“…I grant I never saw a goddess go,-My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:And yet, I think my love as rareAs any she belied in false compare.”-Shakespeare

Hyperbole An exaggeration used

to make a point.

“This has got to be the thirty-billionth time I’ve told you not to do that!”

Personification Giving non-human things

human characteristics.

My computer throws a fit every time I try to use it.

Simile A comparison using “like” or “as”.

As blind as a bat.

Metaphor A comparison without using “like” or

“as”.

Life is a box of chocolates.

Imagery Visually descriptive or figurative language

appealing to any of the five senses, usually describing nature.

The water was so clear that I could see colorful seastars on the seafloor. The trees were vivid green.The sand was so white, it seemed toglow.

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