Poetry

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Poetry

• Unit 6

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Types of Poems

• Narrative

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Tells a story, or narrates

• one late afternoon
• I came home from school feeling sorry
• for an old woman living beneath the
• elevated train below the station

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Lyric

• Poetry that focuses on feelings and impressions
• Age, I do abhor thee
• Youth, I do adore thee.

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Dramatic
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Humorous
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Vocabulary

• acrostic rhyme
  
• ballad rhythm
• haiku
  alliteration
• figurative
  onamatopoeia
• repetition
  personification
• stanza analogy
• narrative simile
• lyric metaphor

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Acrostic

• In Acrostic poems, the first letters of each
  line are aligned vertically to form a word. The
  word often is the subject of the poem.
• An example is-
• Elegantly and efficiently shaped Good to eat
  Great fun to find at Easter Smooth shelled

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Ballad

• A ballad is a song or poem that tells a story

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Haiku

• A form of poetry that began in Japan.
• Has 3 lines
• 5 syllables
• 7 syllables
• 5 syllables

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• Snow melts
• Suddenly, the village
• Is full of children
• Count the syllables
• Frog sunning on lily pad
• As dragonfly darts by.
• Thrapp!

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Figurative

• A play on words used often in poetry.
• I'm drowning in money

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Repetition

• When a poem uses the same word or words more
  than once in a line or in a poem
• And miles to go before I sleep
• And miles to go before I sleep

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Stanza

• A group of lines in a poem
• Usually the lines in a stanza are related to
  each other in the same way the sentences of a
  paragraph go together

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Rhyme

• a repetition of identical or similar sounds in
  two or more different words and is most often
  used in poetry
• Outside, the sky is cracking
• The leaves are snapping
• The flag is slapping

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Rhythm

• A pattern of sound in a poem
• It may be regular or irregular in pattern

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Alliteration

• When several words begin with the same sound are
  next to each other or close together
• I bubble into eddying bays,
• I babble on the pebbles

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Onomatopoeia

• A word that sounds like the noise or sound that
  it stands for
• Buzz
• Sizzle
• Bang

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Personification

• A writer will describe something that is not
  human as having qualities or capabilities that
  are human
• Thus having prepared their buds
• against a sure winter
• the wise trees
• stand sleeping in the cold

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Analogy

• A comparison between two different things, in
  order to highlight some form of similarity

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Simile

• Comparing one thing to another by using the word
  like or as
• Youth like summer morn,
• Age like winter weather
• Youth like summer brave,
• Age like winter bare.

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Metaphor

• Compares two things by presenting them as being
  identical
• The snow is blanket white.
• My hands are ice.