TYPES OF POETRY

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TYPES OF POETRY

• Poetic Tools Tree Map

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NARRATIVE

• A POEM THAT TELLS A STORY. IDEALLY, A NARRATIVE
  POEM SHOULD BALANCE THE STORY WITH THE POETRY.
  BALLADS AND EPICS ARE EXAMPLES OF NARRATIVE POEMS.

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BALLADS

• A STORY TOLD IN VERSE AND USUALLY MEANT TO BE
  SUNG

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EPIC

• A BROADLY DEFINED GENRE OF POETRY, WHICH RETELLS
  IN A CONTINUOUS NARRATIVE THE LIFE AND WORKS OF A
  HEROIC OR MYTHOLOGICAL PERSON OR GROUP OF PEOPLE
• EX THE ODYSSEY

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Cinquain Poetry

• Made up of five lines
• Has syllable pattern of 2,4,6,8,2
• Each line can have a certain function
• Or each line can have a certain number of words

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LIMERICK

• WHERE DOES THE WORD COME FROM?

• DERIVES FROM THE
• IRISH TOWN OF
• LIMERICK

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Limerick Form

• 5 lines
• Lines 1,2,5 have 7-10 syllables rhyme with one
  another
• Lines 3 4 have 5-7 syllables also rhyme with
  each other

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HISTORY

• CAN BE TRACED BACK TO 14TH CENTURY ENGLAND
• USED IN NURSERY RHYMES OTHER POEMS FOR CHILDREN

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• HAVE QUITE A FEW CRITICS
• B/C THEY WERE SHORT SIMPLE SOMETIMES
  NONSENSE, BEGGARS THE WORKING CLASS OFTEN
  REPEATED THEM IN BRITISH PUBS DURING THE 15TH,
  16TH, 17TH CENTURIES

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FYI!!!

• SHAKESPERE EVEN WROTE LIMERICKS IN HIS PLAYS KING
  LEAR OTHELLO

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WHAT ARE THE POSITIVES ABOUT LIMERICKS?
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• EASY TO WRITE
• EASY TO REMEMBER

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HAIKU FORM

• 17 syllables
• 3 lines
• 1st line 5 syllables
• 2nd line 7 syllables
• 3rd line 5 syllables

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A LITTLE HAIKU HISTORY

• Form originated in Japan in 17th century.
  Traditionally about nature.
• Do not rhyme.

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• Warm red apples hang
• In heavy loaded orchards
• Apple cider soon.
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• Little blue bird there
• Chirping gladly on her nest
• Two eggs hidden well.

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CONTENT AREA POEM

• IT MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA TO PICK A TOPIC THAT YOU
  HAVE A HARD TIME REMEMBERING

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Math

• A Poem for Mean, Median and Mode
• The mean is very mean,
• It adds and divides all the numbers seen.
• The median meets you in the middle,
• While playing the fiddle
• The mode is a pot of gold,
• The number that appears the most it will hold.

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COUPLET

• Couplets can stand alone as two-line poems
• They can be combined to create longer poems.
• Simplest form of verse.

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Couplet Poems

• My mother thinks I am her star
• Except when I raid her cookie jar!
• Sally has a bandaged nose
• She didnt know that door was closed.
• Ive had a dog, Ive had a cat,
• Ive got a snake inside my hat.

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Alliteration Couplet Triplet

• The setting sun slipped slowly down,
• Making room for the milky moon.
• The snake was looped in the tree
• Limp as licorice whip.
• Then he wisely winked at me!

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TRIPLETS are the same but with 3 lines and two to
three lines of rhyme

• When I find a shady tree
• Thats the place I like to be
• Reading the book you gave to me.
• I work in school each day
• Homework puts me in a tizzy,
• English makes me weak and dizzy.

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Concrete Poems

• A picture poem
• Uses letters and words to trace the movement of
  an object --
• Or to outline the shape of an object
• (show examples in books)

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When things are looking down, write

• A An acrostic poem I really
• C fun to write.
• R The first letter of each line
• O will spell out the topic of
• S the poem.
• T No rhyme is needed.
• I
• C
• S

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Acrostic Poem

• Flirting with the seaweed
• In and out you glide,
• Swimming over long-lost ships
• Hunting for your lunch

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Similes and Metaphors

• Similes make a comparison between two objects or
  ideas using like or as to highlight the
  comparison.
• Metaphors also show comparison, but do not use
  like or as.

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Simile

• Waves as frothy as shaving lather
• Fireflies twinkling like stars
• A black snake rolled round as a rubber tire
• Snow-covered bushes looking like popcorn balls

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Metaphors

• An old mans face is a leather mask.
• The Halloween moon was a pumpkin in the night
  sky.
• Thorns were tiny claws in the hikers clothes.