Poetry

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Poetry

• Vocabulary

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• Alliteration
• Repetition of initial consonant sounds
• Allusion
• A reference to a well-known person, place, event,
  literary work, or work of art
• Ballad
• A song-like poem that tells a story
• Blank Verse
• Poetry written in unrhymed, ten-syllable lines

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• Concrete Poem
• A poem with a shape that suggests its subject
• Figurative Language
• Writing that is not meant to be taken literally
• Free Verse
• Poetry not written in a regular rhythmical
  pattern or meter
• Haiku
• A three-lined Japanese verse

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• Image
• A word or phrase that appeals to one or more of
  the five senses
• Lyric Poem
• Highly musical verse that expresses the
  observations and feelings of a single speaker
• Metaphor
• A figure of speech in which something is
  described as though it were something else

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• Mood
• The feeling created in the reader by a literary
  work
• Narrative Poem
• A story told in verse
• Onomatopoeia
• The use of words that imitate sounds
• Personification
• A type of figurative language in which a
  non-human subject is given human characteristics

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• Refrain
• A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a
  poem
• Repetition
• The use, more than once, of any element of
  language
• Rhyme
• Repetition of sounds at the end of words
• Rhyme Scheme
• A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem

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• Rhythm
• Pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written
  language
• Simile
• A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a
  direct comparison between two unlike ideas
• Stanza
• A formal division of lines in a poem considered
  as a unit

My love is like a red rose.
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Poetry

• Humor Poetry

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Humor

• Humor in poetry can arise from a number of
  sources
• Surprise
• Exaggeration
• Bringing together of unrelated things
• Most funny poems have two things in common
• Rhythm
• Rhyme

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Rhythm Rhyme

• Using more spirited language makes humorous
  situations even more humorous

• The Porcupine
• By Ogden Nash
• Any hound a porcupine nudges
• Cant be blamed for harboring grudges.
• I know one hound that laughed all winter
• At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.

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If you take away the rhythm and rhyme, the humor
vanishes.

• Any hound that touches a porcupine
• Cant be blamed for holding a grudge
• I know one hound that laughed all winter long
• At a porcupine that sat on a piece of wood

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Lewis Carroll1832-1898

• Born in England
• Wrote Alices Adventures in Wonderland
• Wrote Through the Looking Glass
• His life was quiet and uneventful, but in works
  like Father William, he found escape from his
  serious work into a delightfully zany,
  topsy-turvy world that still amuses children old
  and young.

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Father WilliamPage 400

• In this poem, a young man questions his father
  about some rather unusual behavior.
• Have you ever asked someone what they were doing
  and received an explanation that made very little
  sense at all?

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Limericks

• A limerick is a poem of five lines
• The first, second, and fifth lines have three
  rhythmic beats and rhyme with one another.
• The third and fourth lines have two beats and
  rhyme with one another.
• They are always light-hearted, humorous poems.

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Limericks

• There once was a man with no hair.
• He gave everyone quite a scare.
• He got some Rogaine,
• Grew out a mane,
• And now he resembles a bear!

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Limerick About a Bee

• I wish that my room had a floor,
• I dont care so much for a door.
• But this walking around
• Without touching the ground
• Is getting to be quite a bore.

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Another Limerick

• There once was a very small mouse
• Who lived in a very small house,
• The oceans spray
• Washed it away,
• All that was left was her blouse!

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You will create a limerick similar to this one

• There once was a man from Beijing.
• All his life he hoped to be King.
• So he put on a crown,
• Which quickly fell down.
• That small silly man from Beijing.

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Fill in the blanks and create your own Limerick.

• There once was a _____ from _____.
• All the while she/he hoped ________.
• So she/he ____________________,
• And ________________________,
• That _________ from ___________.

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Mrs. Smiths Limerick

• There once was a man from Japan.
• All the while he hoped for a tan.
• So he lay on the beach,
• And ate a ripe peach,
• That came from a Georgia van.