What is poetry?

3. What is poetry? • It means many things to many people. • “Its the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” • "Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing."

7. Poetic Terms

8. Rhyme

9. Rhymes Spaghetti! Spaghetti Spaghetti! Spaghetti! You’re wonderful stuff, I love you, spaghetti, I can’t get enough. You’re covered with sauce And you’re sprinkled with cheese, Spaghetti! Spaghetti! Oh, give me some please. Jack Prelutsky

10. Simile

11. Simile A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though. Example: "My love is like a red, red rose.“ “She is glowing as bright as the sun.”

12. Metaphor

13. Metaphor A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. Example: "My love is a red, red rose,“ “He is a stone wall”

14. Onomatopoeia

15. Onomatopoeia The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. Words such as buzz and crack are onomatopoetic. Example: POW! BAM! SNAP!

16. Alliteration

17. Alliteration The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. Example: - She sells sea shells by the sea shore. (An old tongue-twister).

18. Bugs Bunny

19. Baseball Bugs: "Watch me paste this pathetic palooka with a powerful paralyzing perfect pachydermous percussion pitch!"

20. Personification

21. Personification A poetic device giving human attributes to an inhuman thing (animal). Example:- "The tree jumped into the road in front of my car"- "With an evil scowl, the storm cloud thundered its disapproval"- The car froged ahead with determination.

22. Assonance

23. Assonance • The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed syllables of successive words. • Example: Reeses Pieces

25. Hyperbole A figure of speech involving exaggeration. Example: I’ve told you a million times! I haven’t talked to you in forever!

26. Imagery

27. Imagery • Involves one or more of your 5 senses (hearing, taste, touch, smell, sight) • An author uses a word or phrase to stimulate your memory of those senses. • These memories can be positive or negative which will contribute to the mood of a poem.

28. Example of Rhythm Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall and of all the king’s horses and all of the King’s men couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again.

29. Practice Your Rhythm Clankity Clankity Clankity Clank! Ankylosaurus was built like a tank, Its hide was a fortress as sturdy as steel, It tended to be an inedible meal. It was armored in front, it was armored behind, There wasn’t a thing on its minuscule mind, It waddled about on its four stubby legs, Nibbling on plants with a mouthful of pegs. Ankylosaurus was best left alone, Its tail was a cudgel of gristle and bone, Clankity Clankity Clankity Clank! Ankylosaurus was built like a tank. By: Jack Prelutsky

30. Symbol

31. Oxymoron

32. Oxymoron • Contradictory terms appear side by side. Example: - “A yawn may be defined as a silent yell.” - Open secret - Living dead - Hell’s Angels - Jumbo shrimp

33. Repetition

34. Repetition • A word or a sentence that is used more than once. Example: Inside the oceanI see fish.Inside the wavesI hear a splash.Inside the waterI felt a fish.It seems so big,as big as a whale.It has to be,But then I see,It's a tuna fish.

35. I Wanna Hold your Hand

36. I Want to Hold your Hand Oh yeah, I'll tell you something I think you'll uderstand, When I say that something, I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand. Oh please say to me You'll let me be your man, And please say to me, You'll let me hold your hand, Now let me hold your hand. And when I touch you I feel happy inside, It's such a feeling That my love I can't hide, I can't hide, I can't hide.

37. Yeah you got that something, I think you'll understand, When I say that something, I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand. Yeah you got that something, I think you'll understand, When I feel that something, I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand. --J. Lennon/P. McCartney

39. Allusion

40. Allusion • Stimulates ideas, associations and extra information in the reader’s mind with only a word or two. • Means ‘reference’ • It relies on the reader being able to understand the allusion and being familiar with all of the meaning hidden behind words.

41. Allusion • Ex: “Christy didn’t like to spend money. She was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything except the bare necessities.” • Allusion: Scrooge. Image should be someone who pinches pennies.

42. Allusion • Carlos used Herculean strength to lift the sofa off his cat’s tail. • Allusion: Hercules. Someone who is very strong.

43. Point of View

44. The job of the poet is to bring the reader/listener into the position of the poet; make them the creator of the action. • The most obvious point of view is probably first person or "I." • The omniscient narrator knows everything, may reveal the motivations, thoughts and feelings of the characters, and gives the reader information. • With a limited omniscient narrator, the material is presented from the point of view of a character, in third person. • The objective point of view presents the action and the characters' speech, without comment or emotion. The reader has to interpret them and uncover their meaning.

45. Symbolism

46. Meter

47. A rhythm of accented and unaccented syllables which are organized into patterns, called feet. In English poetry, the most common meters are these: • Iambic: a foot consisting of an unaccented and accented syllable. Shakespeare often uses iambic, for example the beginning of Hamlet's speech (the accented syllables are italicized), "To be or not to be. Listen for the accents in this line from Marlowe, "Come live with me and be my love." English seems to fall naturally into iambic patterns, for it is the most common meter in English. • Trochaic: a foot consisting of an accented and unaccented syllable. Longfellow's Hiawatha uses this meter, which can quickly become singsong (the accented syllable is italicized): "By the shores of GitcheGumeeBy the shining Big-Sea-water."

48. Different types of

50. What is a Rhyming Poem? • A rhyming poem is a verse poem that contains rhyming words at the end of certain lines.