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Characteristics and Forms
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Poems are divided into lines and then grouped into stanzas, or verses. *Stanzas: poetry’s paragraphs: this is the way that the lines in a poem are grouped.
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Figurative Language and Sound Devices
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Metaphor: describes one thing as if it were something else.
Personification: gives human qualities to a non-human object.
Simile: uses like or as to compare two apparently unlike things.
Symbol: anything that represents something else.
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Identify each of the following as either a simile, metaphor, symbol, or personification.
1. He sits there like a lump on a log. 2. The dog screamed in excitement. 3. The bus lot is a zoo this morning!4. Thumbs up means everything is good.
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Create an example of each: simile, metaphor, personification and symbol.
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Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words: slippery slick slope
Repetition: the use of any element of language – a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence – more than once.
Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in stressed syllables: blade and maze
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Consonance: the repetition of similar consonant sounds a the ends of accented syllables: wind and sand
Onomatopoeia: the use of words that imitate sounds. Crash, bang, hiss
Rhyme: repetition of sounds at the ends of words: speech, teach
Rhyme scheme: a regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem – labeled using lowercase letters. First line ALWAYS starts with an A. Rhyming is identified by the last word on each line. -twinkle twinkle little star – a how I wonder what you are – a up above the world so high – b like a diamond in the sky – b Rhyme scheme: aabb
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Meter: The rhythmical pattern in a poem.
Imagery: the use of vivid vocabulary and specific details that appeal to the senses. Examples: hear, touch, taste, smell, sight.
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Brainstorm: complete the bubble map on your
handout naming any/all types of poetry you know.
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Tells a story in verse.
Has elements similar to a short story Plot, characters, etc.
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Three line Japanese form – typically focuses on nature.
First and third lines have 5 syllables
Second line has seven.
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Lacks strict structure.
No regular meter, rhyme, fixed length, or stanza size.
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Expresses thoughts and feeling of a single speaker, often in music.
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Songlike poems that tell a story
Often deal with adventure and romance
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Shaped to look like their subject.
Lines are shaped to create an image.
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Humerous rhyming five-line poem with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme.
Example: “Hickory, dickory, dock, The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, And down he run, Hickory, dickory, dock.”
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Pairs of rhyming lines, usually of same meter or length.
"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall/ Humpty Dumpty had a great fall/
Syllable count?
All the king's horses and all the king's men/
Couldn't put Humpty together again!“ Syllable count?
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Cinquain – five line poem using designated parts of speech to describe a topic.
Acrostic – uses the topic and each line must start with the first letter of the line.
Alphabet poem – Uses A-Z: write like an acrostic.
Found poem – a collage of a text: read text, highlight words/phrases that stand out to you, compile them in a poem that describes text.
Autobio/bio poem– describes yourself/ someone else