Poetry, Imagery,

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Poetry, Imagery, Style

• Beth Rogers
• W. Blaine Beam Intermediate
• Fourth Grade

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NCSCoS

• English Literature Objective 2-3
• Read a variety of text, includingpoetry
• English Literature Objective 2-4
• Identify and interpret elements of fiction and
  nonfiction and support by referencing the text to
  determine theauthors choice of words
• English Literature Objective 3-1
• Respond to fiction, poetry, and drama using
  interpretive, critical, and evaluative process
• Computer/Technology 1.11
• Identify and discuss the use of multimedia tools
  to report content area information

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Essential Questions

• What is poetry?
• What elements make up a poem?
• What is rhyme?
• What is alliteration and onomatopoeia?
• What are similes and metaphors?
• What is hyperbole and personification?

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What is Poetry?

• Poetry is the art of expressing ones thoughts in
  verse.
• It uses few words to convey its message.
• Poetrys appeal often lies in its melody.
• It is meant to be read aloud.
• Poetry arouses our emotions.
• It surrounds us!

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Every Night

• Every night
• a short word
• covered with fur mouth open
• flies
• out of dark libraries
• All day it hangs
• upside-down in the card
• Catalog under B
• BARBARA JUSTER ESBENSEN

But at sundown B A T by the
hundreds leaves the gloomy pages of mystery books
crawls Out of damp bindings and g l I
d e s into the night air shaking itself
free of the trailing old words DRACULA BLOOD
FANG..
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What is rhyme?

• Rhyme is the repetition of similar or identical
  sounds.
• fog
• dog
• week
• leak

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What elements make a poem?

• Poems use imagery or figures of speech to explain
  feelings or to create a mental picture or idea.
• These suggest action or mood.
• Many poems have a specific rhyme scheme.

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Homework

• What is it about homework
• That makes me want to write
• My Great Aunt Myrt to thank her for
• The sweater thats too tight?
• What is it about homework
• That makes me pick up socks
• That stink from days and days of wear,
• Then clean the litter box?
• What is it about homework
• That makes me volunteer
• To take the garbage out before
• The bugs and flies appear?

What is it about homework That makes me wash my
hair And take an hour combing out The snags and
tangles there? What is it about homework? You
know, I wish I knew, Cause nights when Ive got
homework Ive got too much to do!
JANE YOLEN
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What is Alliteration?

• Alliteration is a poetic device which repeats
  the same beginning sounds for effect.
• The sun sizzled as the swimmer swam south.
• Wicked weather whipped and withered the
  wildflowers.

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What is onomatopoeia?

• Onomatopoeia is the imitation of the natural
  sounds of words.
• The hummingbirds whizzed as the creek babbled
  by.
• The mournful train chugged as it crossed the
  rickety bridge.

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The Congo

• Then along that riverbank
• A thousand miles
• Then I heard the boom of the blood-lust song
• And a thigh-bone beating on a tin-pan gong.
• And BLOOD screamed the whistles and the fifes
  of the warriors,
• BLOOD screamed the skull-face, lean
  witch-doctors,
• Whirl ye the deadly voo-doo rattle,
• Harry the uplands,
• Steal all the cattle,

Rattle-rattle, rattle Bing. Boomlay, boomlay,
boomlay, BOOM, A roaring, epic rag-time
tune From the mouth of the Congo To the Mountains
of the Moon. Death is an Elephant, Torch-eyed and
horrible Foam-flanked and terrible. VACHEL
LINDSAY
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What is a simile?

• A simile is a figure of speech that compares two
  unlike things.
• A comparison is made using like or as.
• The lion purred like a kitten.
• Wanda cried as if the world had come to an end.

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Sneeze
Theres a sort of a tickle the size of a
nickel, a bit like the prickle of
sweet-sour pickle
Its a quivery shiver the shape of
a sliver, like eels in a river
a kind of a wiggle that starts as a jiggle and
joggles its way to a tease,

• which I
• cannot
• suppress
• any longer,
• I guess,
• so pardon me,
• please,
• while I
• MAXINE KUMIN

SNEEZE.
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What is a metaphor?

• A metaphor compares two different things to
  show a likeness between things that does not use
  like or as.
• The lion prowled on pins and needles.
• Wanda was drowning in tears.

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The Sidewalk Racer

• Skimming
• an asphalt sea
• I swerve, I curve, I
• sway I speed to whirring
• sound an inch above the
• ground Im the sailor
• and the sail, Im the
• driver and the wheel
• Im the one and only
• single engine
• human auto
• mobile.
• LILLIAN MORRISON

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What is hyperbole?

• Hyperbole is a deliberate exaggeration used as
  a part of speech.
• Their house was so big, you had to drive a car
  to get from the bedroom to the kitchen!
• My cat is as small as a gnat.

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What is personification?

• Fear grabbed the girl in its icy
  clutches.
• Personification is giving things that are not
  human the personalities and actions of humans.
• Through personification bears like Pooh and
  Paddington behave like human children.
• Feelings can also be personified.

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Haunted Room

• To and fro,
• to and fro
• What makes the empty rocker go?
• What makes the window curtain blow?
• Someone, someone
• lives here. Who?
• Some two, perhaps.
• Some finger taps a midnight waltz
• along the piano keys and snaps
• the photo album shut.

• To and fro,
• to and fro
• Across the wall the cobwebs blow.
• A silent hand upsets a row
• of soldiers, stiff as dominoes,
• and throws a mug of ginger ale
• across the rug. A fingernail
• inscribes a name-all curlicues
• like spider trail-above the door,
• while on the floor a pair of shoes
• meanders slowly to and fro.

To and fro, to and fro Across the floor the
footsteps go. WHOSE?
Some hand unseen advances, halts, and all at once
the window blind turns somersaults around its
pole, a shiver stirs the ferns green spine, and
in a bowl the columbine uplifts its gold combed
head and quivers in the sudden cold.
SYLVIA CASSEDY
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What is an Acrostic Poem?

• An Acrostic poem differs from other poetry
  because the first letter of each line spells a
  word which can be read vertically.
• The rhyme scheme and number of lines may vary in
  acrostic poems.
• Occasionally ,poets and other people use their
  names in an acrostic poem.

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Winter

• Whistling, howling, whirling winds
• In winter form icy crystals.
• Now a blanket of cold shrouds the earth.
• Trembling branches break,
• Eerie sounds echo through the woods
• Replying to the winds fury.
• 
  
  
• 
  
  Yvonne Allen

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What is a Bio-Poem?

• A bio-poem is a short biography or autobiography
  telling about someones life.
• It uses the following pattern
• Line 1 First name only
• Line 2 Four traits
• Line 3 Related to
• Line 4 Cares deeply about
• Line 5 Who feels
• Line 6 Who needs
• Line 7 Who gives
• Line 8 Who fears
• Line 9 Who would like to see
• Line 10 Resident of

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Gretel

• Gretel
• Small, lost, tired, hungry,
• Sister of Hansel,
• Cares deeply about her family,
• Who is afraid,
• Who needs a place to sleep,
• Who gives companionship,
• Who fears the witch,
• Who would like to see her father again,
• Resident of the forest.

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What is a Cinquain poem?

• The cinquain is a simple, five-line verse from.
• Its structure is as follows
• Line1 One word of two syllables (may be the
  title)
• Line 2 Four syllables (describing the subject or
  title)
• Line 3 Six syllables (showing action)
• Line 4 Eight syllables (expressing a feeling or
  observation about the subject)
• Line 5 Two syllables (describing or renaming the
  subject)

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Cinquains
Mountain Isolated Snow-capped and
cloud-touched White against shining, azure
sky High peak

• Kittens
• Frisky, playful
• Mewing, jumping, bouncing
• Creeping silently on padded paws
• Mischief

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What is a Concrete Poem?

• Concrete poetry is written in the shape of the
  topic of the poem.
• Rhyme is not important.
• Poems can use only descriptive words.
• Poems can give a thought about the topic.

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Pickle
juicy, sliced
whole, sour,
Green, crunchy.
sweet.
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What is a Diamonte poem?

• Diamonte poems are diamond-shaped poems that are
  written using parts of speech.
• They are fun because the top half is very
  different from the bottom half.
• Here is the pattern
• Line 1 One noun (1)
• Line 2 Two adjectives describing noun 1
• Line 3 Three participles that end in ing and
  tell about noun 1
• Line 4 Four more nouns the first two related
  to noun 1 and the second two related to noun 2
• Line 5 Three participles that end in ing and
  tell bout noun 2
• Line 6 Two adjectives that describe noun 2
• Line 7 One noun (2)

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Breakfast and Lunch

• Doughnut
• Round, sweet
• Chewing, tasting, savoring
• Pastry, baking, school, lunch
• Making, packing, wrapping
• Square, fresh
• Sandwich

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What is an Ode?

• An Ode is a poem that addresses someone or
  something with great feeling or respect.
• Think of someone or something to write about.
• Write your feelings about it, him, or her.
• Give a description.
• Tell the reasons you love (hate, fear, enjoy) it.

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To My Eraser

• Oh, Eraser on my pencil top,
• I chomp on you and cannot stop.
• How many times have I had this fit,
• I try, but I just cannot quit.
• As soon as one mistakes erased
• I hunger for your spongy taste.
• No more! my mind says Quit, you fool!
• But then my mouth begins to drool.
• The pencil rises on its own
• And then I feel you at my tongue.
• My teeth bite in until they meet
• And soon youre lying at my feet!

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What is a Sense poem?

• A sense poem has six lines which of vivid
  descriptions of a topic using the five senses.
• Here is the pattern for a sense poem
• Line 1 Tell the color of the subject
• Line 2 Tell what it sounds like
• Line 3 Tell what it tastes like
• Line 4 Tell what it smells like
• Line 5 Tell what it looks like
• Line 6 Tell how it makes you fell

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War

• War is brown.
• It sounds like thunder.
• It tastes like bitter grapes.
• It smells like yesterdays garbage.
• It looks like an ancient ruin.
• It makes you feel like crying.

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What are Sonnets?

• A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines.
• It begins with three quatrains and ends with on
  couplet.
• A quatrain is a verse made up of four lines. The
  most popular rhyme scheme is A-B-A-B.
• A Couplet is a two-line verse. The two lines
  rhyme.

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Decisions

• I watch the turkey turning brown
• As quests begin arriving
• When I see many pies around
• That makes me start deciding.
• Which one will fill my dinner plate
• On this Thanksgiving Day?
• Which one will I say I ate?
• Will it matter anyway?
• I might just sample every one
• Instead of picking from the bunch
• Or wait until most everyone
• Has eaten all their lunch
• And there is one last pie to test
• Oh, how I hope it is the best!

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Poetry Booklet

• Cover Sheet (your name, date, and teacher)
• Page 1 Table of Contents ( Title of poem on left,
  page number on right)
• Page 2 Acrostic (original)
• Page 3 Bio-poem (original)
• Page 4 Cinquain (original)
• Page 5 Concrete or Shape Poem (original)
• Page 6 Diamonte (original)
• Page 7 Ode (original)
• Page 8 Sense Poem (original)
• Page 9 Sonnet (original)
• Page 10 Rhyme (copied)
• Page 11 Alliteration (copied)
• Page 13 Simile (copied)
• Page 14 Metaphor (copied)
• Page 15 Hyperbole (copied)
• Page 16 Personification (copied)
• Page 17 Your Choice (copied)
• Page 18 Your Choice (copied)
• Page 19 Your Choice (copied)

All poems much be on a separate sheet and have
an illustration on each page. Copy (and
capitalize) the author, title, and where you
found the poem with each page. All poems must be
handwritten!!!
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Web Sites

• www.poetry4kids.com
• www.gigglepoetry.com/
• www.poetryclass.net/

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References

• Every Night by Barbara Juster Esbebsen, Ogres
  and Ugstabuggles
• Homework by Jane Yolen, Rainbows and Rotten
  Moods
• The Congo by Vachel Lindsay, Teaching Language
  Arts
• Sneeze by Maxine Kumin, Pizza and Pandemonium
• The Sidewalk Racer by Lillian Morrison, Rainbows
  and Rotten Moods
• Haunted Room by Sylvia Cassedy, Ogres and
  Ugstabuggles