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POETRY UNIT
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POETRY
A type of literature
that expresses
ideas, feelings, or
tells a story in a
specific form
(usually using lines
and stanzas)
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POINT OF VIEW IN POETRY
POET
The poet is the author
of the poem.
SPEAKER
The speaker of the
poem is the “narrator”
of the poem.
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POETRY FORM
FORM - the
appearance of the
words on the page
LINE - a group of
words together on one
line of the poem
STANZA - a group of
lines arranged together
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
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SOUND EFFECTS
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Accent
Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in
poetry.
Example – Hickory dickory dock/The mouse ran
up the clock.
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Repetition
Repeating a word, phrase, line to emphasize
an idea.
Example – Day upon day, year upon year
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RHYTHM
The beat created by
the sounds of the
words in a poem
Rhythm can be created
by meter, rhyme,
alliteration and refrain.
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RHYME
Occurrence of the
same end rhymes in
the lines of a poem.
Example – Brown and
furry/Caterpillar in a
hurry/Take your
walk/To the shady
leaf, or stalk.
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END RHYME
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a
word at the end of another line
Hector the Collector
Collected bits of string.
Collected dolls with broken heads
And rusty bells that would not ring.
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INTERNAL RHYME
A word inside a line rhymes with another
word on the same line.
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I
pondered weak and weary.
From “The Raven”
by Edgar Allan Poe
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RHYME SCHEME
A rhyme scheme is a pattern of rhyme (usually
end rhyme, but not always).
Use the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds
to be able to visually “see” the pattern. (See next
slide for an example.)
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SAMPLE RHYME SCHEME
The Germ by Ogden Nash
A mighty creature is the germ,
Though smaller than the pachyderm.
His customary dwelling place
Is deep within the human race.
His childish pride he often pleases
By giving people strange diseases.
Do you, my poppet, feel infirm?
You probably contain a germ.
a
a
b
b
c
c
a
a
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ONOMATOPOEIA
Words that imitate the sound they are
naming
BUZZ
OR sounds that imitate another sound
“The silken, sad, uncertain, rustling of
each purple curtain . . .”
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ALLITERATION
Consonant sounds repeated at the
beginnings of words
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers, how many pickled peppers did
Peter Piper pick?
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REFRAIN
A sound, word, phrase
or line repeated
regularly in a poem.
“Quoth the raven,
‘Nevermore.’”
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TYPES OF POETRY
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HAIKU
A Japanese poem
written in three lines
Five Syllables
Seven Syllables
Five Syllables
An old silent pond . . .
A frog jumps into the pond.
Splash! Silence again.
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CINQUAIN
A five line poem containing 22 syllables
Two Syllables
Four Syllables
Six Syllables
Eight Syllables
Two Syllables
How frail
Above the bulk
Of crashing water hangs
Autumnal, evanescent, wan
The moon.
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FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE
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Pun
A play on words that have a similar sound
but different meanings.
Example – What lies at the bottom of the
ocean and twitches? A nervous wreck!
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SIMILE
A comparison of two things using “like, as
than,” or “resembles.”
“She is as beautiful as a sunrise.”
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METAPHOR
A direct comparison of two unlike things
“All the world’s a stage, and we are merely
players.”
- William Shakespeare
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Hyperbole
Exaggeration often used for emphasis.
Ex.- I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
I had a TON of homework!
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Litotes
Understatement - basically the opposite of
hyperbole. Often it is ironic.
Ex. Calling a slow moving person “Speedy”
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Idiom
An expression where the literal meaning of
the words is not the meaning of the
expression. It means something other than
what it actually says.
Ex. It’s raining cats and dogs.
He kicked the bucket!
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PERSONIFICATION
An animal
given human-
like qualities
or an object
given life-like
qualities.
from “Ninki”
by Shirley Jackson
“Ninki was by this time irritated beyond belief by the general air of incompetence exhibited in the kitchen, and she went into the living room and got Shax, who is extraordinarily lazy and never catches his own chipmunks, but who is, at least, a cat, and preferable, Ninki saw clearly, to a man with a gun.
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OTHER
POETIC DEVICES
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SYMBOLISM
When a person, place,
thing, or event that has
meaning in itself also
represents, or stands
for, something else.
= Innocence
= America
= Peace
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Point of View First Person- A character in the story. Can only tell what
he/she thinks and does. Clues-I, we, us ,our Example-
When I walked into the…..
Third-Person Omniscient-Knows everything about all
the characters and events at all times and is NOT part of
the story. Clues-He, she, they, and them. Example-Tula
sat at the table, anxiously waiting for Mike to arrive.
Third-Person Limited-Not a part of the story and knows
what only one character is thinking. Clues-He, she, they,
and them Example-Mike came in and stared at her. She
wondered what he was thinking.
Second-Person-Speaks directly to the reader. Clues-Uses
the word you. Example- Beat the eggs for two minutes
before you add milk.
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Assignment
Write five poems of your own.
The poems MUST contain at least five of the below elements of poetry from our notes: Hyperbole, Metaphor, Personification, Pun, Simile, Accent, Alliteration, Internal Rhyme, Onomatopoeia, Repetition, and Rhyme.
Label each poem as to which one of the 5 elements of poetry was used in it.