Poetry

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Poetry

• How to build a poem Poetry Toolbox

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Poetry Defined

• Poetry writing that uses language and structure
  to create an emotional response

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Poetry Toolbox Meaning

• Descriptive Imagery words that paint a vivid
  picture in your mind!
• Similes
• Metaphors
• Personification

Music

• Rhyme
• Rhythm

Meaning

• Descriptive imagery

Similes Metaphors
Personification
Alliteration Onomatopoeia
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Similes Metaphors

• Similes figure of speech that compares 2 UNLIKE
  things using the words like or as
• Metaphors figure of speech that compares 2
  UNLIKE things WITHOUT using the words like or as

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Personification

• How does the word person fit into the
  definition of personification??
• What does personification add to a poem?

Music

• Rhyme
• Rhythm

Meaning

• Descriptive imagery

Similes Metaphors
Personification
Alliteration Onomatopoeia
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Poetry Toolbox Music

• Writers use tools to create rhyme and rhythm in
  a poem.
• What is the difference between the two?

Music

• Rhyme
• Rhythm

Meaning

• Descriptive imagery

Similes Metaphors
Personification
Alliteration Onomatopoeia
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Poetry Toolbox Rhyme Rhythm

• Rhyme words or lines in a poem with similar
  ending sounds
• Rhythm recurring movement of sound or speech

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What do you hear?Rain in Summer Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow

• How beautiful is the rain!
• After the dust and heat,
• In the broad and fiery street,
• in the narrow lane,
• How beautiful is the rain!
• How it clatters along the roofs,
• Like the ramp of hoofs!
• How it gushes and struggles out
• From the throat of the overflowing spout
• Across the window pane
• It pours and pours
• And swift and wide,
• With a muddy tide,
• Like a river down the gutter roars
• The rain, the welcome rain!

From the neighboring school Come the boys, With
more than their wonted noise And commotion And
down the wet streets Sail their mimic
fleets, Till the treacherous pool Engulfs them in
its whirling And turbulent ocean. In the
country, on every side, Where far and wide, Like
a leopards tawny and spotted hide, Stretches the
plain, To the dry grass and the drier grain How
welcome is the rain
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Poetry Toolbox Music

• Watch this video!
• What did you notice?

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Tools for Making Music

• Alliteration the same sound repeated at the
  beginning of words
• Helps writers achieve rhythm by directing a
  readers attention to certain sounds, which
  affects the words that are stressed
• Examples? ?

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Show What You Know

• Lets try to use alliteration to write a tongue
  twister!
• Be prepared to try them out on your classmates.

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Tools for Making Music

• Onomatopoeia words that imitate sounds
• Onomatopoeia video
• (How many examples can you find?)

Music

• Rhyme
• Rhythm

Meaning

• Descriptive imagery

Similes Metaphors
Personification
Alliteration Onomatopoeia
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Show What You Know

• Lets enhance our writing
• Add onomatopoeia to your tongue twister!
• Be prepared to try them out on your classmates.

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Free Verse Poetry

• composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that
  have no set fixed metrical pattern
• NO SET LINE LENGTH
• NO SET RHYTHM
• NO RHYMING PATTERN
• WAY OF CONVEYING IDEAS AND FEELINGS
• CAREFULLY CRAFTED WORD PICTURE

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Using the Writers Toolbox

• 6 Room Poetry tool used to help writers with
  descriptive imagery
• Walk through 6 rooms to add sensory cues to
  your poetry
• Use the other tools from your toolbox as you walk
  through the rooms (i.e. in
  sounds room,
  consider ways to use onomatopoeia or
  alliteration to add
  rhyme and rhythm)

Music
Meaning

• Rhyme
• Rhythm

• Descriptive imagery

Similes Metaphors
Personification
Alliteration Onomatopoeia
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Using Writers Toolbox

• Heart Mapping tool writers use to organize what
  is really important to them
• Brainstorm ideas about things that are important
  to you

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Show What You Know

• Using your heart map, select a topic about which
  you would like to write a poem.
• Walk through the 6 Rooms to help you describe
  your topic.
• Write a free verse poem.
• Look back at your poem and add figurative
  language to enhance the descriptive imagery and
  music of your poem.
• CONGRATULATIONS! YOU ARE A POET!