What is poetry?

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What is poetry?

• It means many things to many people.
• Its the spontaneous overflow of powerful
  feelings.
• "Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn,
  what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me
  want to do this or that or nothing."

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Poetic Terms
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Rhyme
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Rhymes

• Spaghetti! Spaghetti
• Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
• Youre wonderful stuff,
• I love you, spaghetti,
• I cant get enough.
• Youre covered with sauce
• And youre sprinkled with cheese,
• Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
• Oh, give me some please.
• Jack Prelutsky

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Simile
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Simile

• A figure of speech involving a comparison between
  unlike things using like, as, or as though.
• Example
• "My love is like a red, red rose.
• She is glowing as bright as the sun.

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Metaphor
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Metaphor

• A comparison between essentially unlike things
  without an explicitly comparative word such as
  like or as.
• Example
• "My love is a red, red rose,
• He is a stone wall

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Onomatopoeia
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Onomatopoeia

• The use of words to imitate the sounds they
  describe. Words such as buzz and crack are
  onomatopoetic.
• Example
• POW! BAM! SNAP!

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Alliteration
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Alliteration

• The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at
  the beginning of words.
• Example
• - She sells sea shells by the sea shore. (An
  old tongue-twister).

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Bugs Bunny
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• Baseball Bugs "Watch me paste this pathetic
  palooka with a powerful paralyzing perfect
  pachydermous percussion pitch!"

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Personification
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Personification

• A poetic device giving human attributes to an
  inhuman thing (animal).
• Example- "The tree jumped into the road in
  front of my car"- "With an evil scowl, the storm
  cloud thundered its disapproval"- The car froged
  ahead with determination.

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Assonance
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Assonance

• The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed
  syllables of successive words.
• Example Reeses Pieces

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Hyperbole

• A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
• Example
• Ive told you a million times!
• I havent talked to you in forever!

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Imagery
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Imagery

• Involves one or more of your 5 senses (hearing,
  taste, touch, smell, sight)
• An author uses a word or phrase to stimulate your
  memory of those senses.
• These memories can be positive or negative which
  will contribute to the mood of a poem.

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Example of Rhythm

• Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
• Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
• and of all the kings horses and all of the
• Kings men
• couldnt put Humpty Dumpty together
• again.

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Practice Your Rhythm

• Clankity Clankity Clankity Clank!
• Ankylosaurus was built like a tank,
• Its hide was a fortress as sturdy as steel,
• It tended to be an inedible meal.
• It was armored in front, it was armored behind,
• There wasnt a thing on its minuscule mind,
• It waddled about on its four stubby legs,
• Nibbling on plants with a mouthful of pegs.
• Ankylosaurus was best left alone,
• Its tail was a cudgel of gristle and bone,
• Clankity Clankity Clankity Clank!
• Ankylosaurus was built like a tank.
  
• By Jack Prelutsky

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Symbol
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Oxymoron
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Oxymoron

• Contradictory terms appear side by side.
• Example
• - A yawn may be defined as a silent yell.
• - Open secret
• - Living dead
• - Hells Angels
• - Jumbo shrimp

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Repetition
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Repetition

• A word or a sentence that is used more than once.
• Example
• Inside the oceanI see fish.Inside the wavesI
  hear a splash.Inside the waterI felt a fish.It
  seems so big,as big as a whale.It has to
  be,But then I see,It's a tuna fish.

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I Wanna Hold your Hand
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I Want to Hold your Hand

• Oh yeah, I'll tell you something
• I think you'll uderstand,
• When I say that something,
• I wanna hold your hand,
• I wanna hold your hand,
• I wanna hold your hand.
• Oh please say to me
• You'll let me be your man,
• And please say to me, You'll let me hold your
  hand,
• Now let me hold your hand.
• And when I touch you I feel happy inside,
• It's such a feeling
• That my love I can't hide,
• I can't hide, I can't hide.

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• Yeah you got that something,
• I think you'll understand,
• When I say that something,
• I wanna hold your hand,
• I wanna hold your hand,
• I wanna hold your hand.
• Yeah you got that something,
• I think you'll understand,
• When I feel that something,
• I wanna hold your hand,
• I wanna hold your hand,
• I wanna hold your hand.
• --J. Lennon/P. McCartney

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Allusion
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Allusion

• Stimulates ideas, associations and extra
  information in the readers mind with only a word
  or two.
• Means reference
• It relies on the reader being able to understand
  the allusion and being familiar with all of the
  meaning hidden behind words.

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Allusion

• Ex Christy didnt like to spend money. She was
  no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased anything
  except the bare necessities.
• Allusion Scrooge. Image should be someone who
  pinches pennies.

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Allusion

• Carlos used Herculean strength to lift the sofa
  off his cats tail.
• Allusion Hercules.
• Someone who is very
• strong.

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Point of View
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The job of the poet is to bring the
reader/listener into the position of the poet
make them the creator of the action.

• The most obvious point of view is probably first
  person or "I."
• The omniscient narrator knows everything, may
  reveal the motivations, thoughts and feelings of
  the characters, and gives the reader information.
  
• With a limited omniscient narrator, the material
  is presented from the point of view of a
  character, in third person.
• The objective point of view presents the action
  and the characters' speech, without comment or
  emotion. The reader has to interpret them and
  uncover their meaning.

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Symbolism
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Meter
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• A rhythm of accented and unaccented syllables
  which are organized into patterns, called feet.
  In English poetry, the most common meters are
  these
• Iambic a foot consisting of an unaccented and
  accented syllable. Shakespeare often uses iambic,
  for example the beginning of Hamlet's speech (the
  accented syllables are italicized), "To be or not
  to be. Listen for the accents in this line from
  Marlowe, "Come live with me and be my love."
  English seems to fall naturally into iambic
  patterns, for it is the most common meter in
  English.
• Trochaic a foot consisting of an accented and
  unaccented syllable. Longfellow's Hiawatha uses
  this meter, which can quickly become singsong
  (the accented syllable is italicized) "By the
  shores of GitcheGumeeBy the shining
  Big-Sea-water."

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Different types of
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What is a Rhyming Poem?

• A rhyming poem is a verse poem that contains
  rhyming words at the end of certain lines.

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• Example Night time
• by Lee Bennet Hopkins
  
• How do dreams know
• when to creep
• into my head
• when I fall off
• to Sleep?

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The Purpose of Rhyming Poems

• Rhyming poems are used mainly for humor. These
  poems are fun to read.
• Lets see some more poems with rhymes.

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Rhyming Scheme

• Common rhyme schemes are ABAB, ABCD. If you have
  more than one verse you could consider AABA BBCB
  CCDC etc. or similar.

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What is Rhythm?

• Any poem has the chance of having rhythm.
• A poem has rhythm if the reader of the poem gives
  the poem rhythm.
• For a poem to have rhythm, it has to be read
  following a pattern with its syllables. For
  example
• da, da, dadada da da, da, da, dadada da da,
• da, da, dadada da da, da, da, dadada da da.

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Stanza

• A fix number of lines of verse forming a unit of
  a poem.
• Each stanza is its own unit.
• Indicates a break between thoughts, actions or
  concepts.
• Some different types of stanzas are...

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Couplet

• Stanzas of only 2 lines that usually rhyme.
• Example
• Whether or not we find what we are seeking is
  idle, biologically speaking.

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The Couplet
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Quatrain

• Four line stanza.
• Oh the birds are singing,
• In a nest of broken sticks,Look what they are
  bringing,It's nutrition for their chicks.

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Cinquain

• Five line stanza.
• 1st line one word giving the title.
• 2nd line 2 words describing the title.
• 3rd line 3 words describing the action.
• 4th line 4 words describing the feeling.
• 5th line another word for the title.

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• Dog
• Black and White
• Wags his tail
• Fun to play with
• Friend.
• Hamburgers
• Thick, juicy
• Delicious, scrumptious, yummy
• Better still with relish
• McDonalds

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Haiku
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• Write about everyday things.
• Themes nature, feelings or experiences.
• Simple words and grammar.
• No rhyme....they paint. (imagery)
• 3 lines.
• 1st line 5 syllables.
• 2nd line 7 syllables.
• 3rd line 5 syllables.

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• A Rainbow.
• Curving up, then down.
• Meeting blue sky and green earth.
• Melding sun and rain.
• Nature
• Frogs jumping around
• Frogs hopping away from snakes
• Frogs doing cool tricks.

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Verse

• One line of poetry.

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Found Poem

• Each word in the poem has been found and put
  together to make a poem. For example, I am
  currently sitting on my couch, and will write for
  you a found poem
• 27, Innocent Man, Canadian,
• How to attract more love
• 200 mg, exact.

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Stream of Consciousness Response

• Write as many thoughts and feelings as we can
  without worrying about spelling or grammar.
• All the thoughts in our heads these thoughts and
  feelings happen so fast we often dont write them
  down.
• The Addict

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The Problem Maker

• Ask ask ask (asking questions)
• To understand poems it is important to ask
  questions about details in the poem.
• 5 Ws
• Who? What? When? Where? Why?

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Ask as many questions as you can...

• But
• As the hand of love
• Freely extended
• Always returns
• Covered with scars
• (if not nailed to the cross),
• It is not stupid to refuse the cure
• It is not stupid
• To remain paralyzed,
• Stuck on the pallet.
• But
• It is boring.

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Concrete Poem

• 2 types
• A free verse poem in the shape of what it is
  describing or in the shape of something related
  to the topic.
• 2) A one word poem in the shape of what it is.

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Concrete
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Narrative

• Plot
• Short or long
• Tells a story
• A story told in poetic form

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• SUMMER
•   Why am I here?I told them not to sign me up.I
  ran out of 6th period yesterdayKnowing a journey
  had begun.Mighty Ducks was so cool last
  night.Jumping up and down on the bed.Singing We
  Are The Champions.Now I am here in camp.First
  day-Sitting on the groundAs the other kids
  talk.Wait a minute--bright ideaOpening my
  bag, I take out the Super Soaker.Squirt! -smile-
  Two kids are wet.I run as they come after
  me.The Counselor sees me.This cute girl sees
  mewow, shes hot.Squirt! Shes wet )This
  camp might not be so bad.Just one week and Ill
  be doneIn the gym, some days aheadWe are
  playing basketball.My ball bounces off the rim
  and rolls to a big kid.I squirted you!He grabs
  my ball and punts it across the court.Hey! Not
  fair.

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• Maybe he was mad because at lunch I wasAlso
  trying to talk to this girl we both liked.She
  gave me a kiss on the cheek.Lip next time, ohh
  yeah!Friday, yes, Fridayalmost there.Pool
  day.We travel to a place where other campers
  meet.Everyone jumps in.I wait and cannonball.
  Water splashes! Commotion!-Contests-The
  bigger splash.Pouring rain.Pool tackling.The
  big guy comes after me under the pool.Thank
  you, goggles.I see other kids underwater.Some
  jumping down in many bubbles.The girl,whoa! The
  girl from lunch!She kisses me under the
  water.Ohh yeah!I got my wish.(Im a bird
  flying towards the sun in sweet
  blissharmony------wait..wait!)The big kid grabs
  me out from underwater, goggles slide off.He
  throws me to the other side of the pool. My, hes
  strong.Bodybuilder wanna-be!!Climbing out of
  the poolThe breeze welcomes me.I pose my
  muscles amid the watery chaos (hggh!)I am the
  Champion.

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Free Verse
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Free Verse

• Doesn't have to have a rhyme scheme or rhythm.
• The theme is the most important.
• It pays less attention to the normal grammatical
  patterns of the English sentence.
• Sentence fragments may be used.
• Should have impact on the reader.
• The arrangement is well thought out

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The Ballad

• Ballad Poems are poems that tells a story similar
  to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated
  refrain. A ballad is often about love and often
  sung. A ballad is a story in poetic form.
• Death
• Supernatural

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• Simple language
• Narrative
• Repetition
• Rhyme
• Song like
• Dialogue
• Folk
• Literary

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Cats in the Cradle
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• 5 line poem
• Rhyme AABBA
• Funny

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An Example of a Limerick

• What is a limerick, Mother?
• It's a form of verse, said brother
• In which lines one and two
• Rhyme with five when it's through
• And three and four rhyme with each other.
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Limerick

• There was an Old Man in a tree,Who was horribly
  bored by a BeeWhen they said, 'Does it
  buzz?'He replied, 'Yes, it does!''It's a
  regular brute of a Bee!'

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Limerick

• There was a Young Lady whose chin,Resembled the
  point of a pinSo she had it made sharp,And
  purchased a harp,And played several tunes with
  her chin.

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Limerick

• There was an Old Man with a nose,Who said, 'If
  you choose to suppose,That my nose is too
  long,You are certainly wrong!'That remarkable
  Man with a nose

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diamante

• 1 word- subject
• 2 words- adjectives
• 3 words- participles (ing)
• 4 words- nouns
• 3 words- participles
• 2 words- adjectives
• 1 word- noun (opposite or example of the subject)

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• Ornament
• Glistening, bright
• Hanging, sparkling, falling
• Tinsel, popcorn, lights, berries
• Shining, breaking, cracked
• Wrecked, ruined
• Star

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Tanka

• Japanese poetry.
• 5 lines with a total of 31 syllables.
• 5-7-5-7-7 division.
• Nature and seasons.

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• Where is the white snow? (5)
• It is time for it I know? (7)
• I go on looking (5)
• On the hill, over the brook (7)
• But the snow is hiding still (7)

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Types of Rhyming Poems

• There are many types of rhyming poems.
• Here are names of some of them
• The Couplet
• The Limerick
• The Ballad Stanza (including the short and long)
• Octaves

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