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Poetry

Poetry. Poetry is all about 5 things…. Expression Observation Ideas Emotions Words and Opinions. The way a poem sounds is a big part of what a poem is about. Some poems have a musical sound. That is largely due to rhythm, rhyme, and meter. Rhythm.

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Poetry

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  1. Poetry

  2. Poetry is all about 5 things… • Expression • Observation • Ideas • Emotions • Words and Opinions

  3. The way a poem sounds is a big part of what a poem is about. • Some poems have a musical sound. That is largely due to rhythm, rhyme, and meter.

  4. Rhythm • The beat of the poem that helps to keep the poems pace. It is the actual sound the poem makes when reading. • Rhythm is established by stressed and unstressed syllables.

  5. Rhyme • Words that share sounds together • End Rhyme: Rhyming at the ends of lines • Internal Rhyme: Rhyming within a line.

  6. Rhyme Scheme • The alternating or repeating sounds at the ends of lines. It is the pattern of rhyme at the end of a line.

  7. Meter • The repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

  8. Stanza • A group of lines put together by often a single thought. • A stanza is like a paragraph in prose.

  9. What 2 things work together to create a special structure in a poem? • Rhyme • Meter

  10. Couplet • Two lines together that rhyme. • A pair of rhyming lines usually with the same meter.

  11. Quatrain • Four lines that have a specific rhyme scheme

  12. Figurative Language • A literary device used throughout literature. • Figurative language includes words, phrases, and symbols or ideas, comparisons, elaborate expressions, and sound devices.

  13. Simile • A comparison between 2 unlike things with the words “like” or “as”. • EX: He is as strong as a ox.

  14. Metaphor • A comparison between two unlike things • EX: That man is an ox * Extended Metaphor: a metaphor that is extended over several lines or throughout the poem.

  15. Sensory Details • Using the senses to create images.

  16. Symbolism • A visible object that stands for something not clearly visible. • Symbolism adds a layer of meaning.

  17. Repetition • Repeating of sounds. • Alliteration: repeating of consonant sounds at the beginning of words • Blue Black Cold • Assonance: Repeating of vowel sounds in the middle of words. • Moses Supposes his toeses is roses.

  18. Poetry may use language and symbols in surprising and unconventional ways. • They can manipulate the look through sound and punctuation.

  19. Kinds of Poems • Limerick: a five line humorous poem. Limericks have a regular meter and rhyme scheme. • Sonnets: a 14 line rhyming poem written in Iambic Pentameter. • Iambic Pentameter: an alternating 5 stressed and 5 unstressed syllables. * Lyric Poetry: a poem that draws on emotions and feelings.

  20. Kinds of Poems • Blank Verse: an unrhymed iambic pentameter poem. • Free verse: unrhymed/unmetered poem. • Narrative Poem: tells a complete story and sometimes is very long. • Epic: a poem about an adventure typically of a superhuman hero. • EX: Iliad and Odyssey & Beowulf

  21. Poetry expresses the ebb and flow of life in an uniquely personal voice that reachers across form and time.

  22. Major Themes in Poetry • Death/Loss • Love • Family/ Friendship • Hardship/Humor • Growing Old • Growing Up

  23. 7 things you should notice while reading poetry. • Read Out Loud • Rhythm • Rhyme Schemes • Theme • Words/Phrases • Punctuation • Mood/Feeling • Format

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