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Poetry 2009

Poetry 2009. Mrs. Noga’s Class. What is POETRY?. Poetry- a kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal our emotions and imagination. Poetic Devices.

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Poetry 2009

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  1. Poetry 2009 Mrs. Noga’s Class

  2. What is POETRY? • Poetry- a kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery designed to appeal our emotions and imagination

  3. Poetic Devices • Rhythm – a musical quality produced by the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables or by the repetition of certain other sound patterns • Rhyme –the repetition of accented vowel sounds and all sounds following them in words that are close together in a poem • Internal Rhyme – rhyme that comes within a line • End Rhyme- rhyme that comes at the end of a line

  4. Onomatopoeia – use of words whose sound imitates or suggests their meaning, ex hiss, bang, crash • Alliteration – repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together. Ex Water World, or Noga’s Notes • Refrain – a repeated sound, word, phrase, line, or a group of lines

  5. Figures of speech • Figures of Speech – word or phrase that describes one thing in terms of something else and is not literally true • Tone – the attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and audience • Metaphor –an imaginative comparison between two unlike things in which one thing is said to be another one

  6. Simile – comparison of two things using like, as, than, or resembles • Personification- a figure of speech in which an object or animal is spoken of as if it human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes • Imagery – language that appeals to the senses

  7. Hyperbole – an expression of exaggeration. Ex –I nearly died laughing • Symbol – a person, a place, a thing, or an event that as meaning in itself and stands for something beyond itself as well • Puns – a play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings • Idiom –an expression peculiar to a particular language that means something from the literal meaning of the words

  8. Meter- a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry • Assonance- repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close together.

  9. Types of poems • Haiku- a form of japanese poetry that has no rhyme. It is 3 lines, 5-7-5 syllable pattern. • Couplet- 2 line poem with a simple rhyming pattern. Each line rhymes • Quatrain- rhyming poem of 4 lines. Follows one of these patterns AABB, ABAB, ABBA, ABCB • Sonnet- poem of 14 line that begins with 3 quatrains and end with a couplet.

  10. Narrative poem- poem that tells a story. Includes setting, characters, plot, and theme • Acrostic poem- poetry in which the first letter of each line, when read vertically, spell out a word. The word is usually the subject of the poem • Concrete poem- poem that forms a visible picture on the page. The shape usually reflects the subject of the poem

  11. Free verse- poetry without rules of form, rhyme, rhythm, or meter • Limerick – a very short humerous or nonsensical poem • Lyric poem- a poem that expresses the feelings or thoughts of a speaker rather than telling a story

  12. Ballad- a song or songlike poem that tells a story • Stanza- a group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit.

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