Narrative Poetry

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Narrative Poetry

• Exploring the Genre

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Poetry Exploring the Genre

• Whether telling a story, capturing a single
  moment, or describing nature in a whole new way,
  poetry is the most musical of all literary forms.
  

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Poetry Strategies for Writing

• Writing poetry is like creating a mystery. You
  provide the reader with clues in the form of
  words and phrases. These clues are pieces that
  form a complete picture. Use these strategies to
  help guide you

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Poetry Strategies

• 1. Figurative Language
• Figurative language is language not meant to be
  taken literally.
• Helps to create vivid, clear mental pictures.
• Think What are you trying to SHOW the reader
• 2. Punctuating Lines
• The reader continues reading when a line has no
  punctuation at the end.
• Create pause with commas, dashes, and semicolons.
• Create stops with end marks, like periods,
  question marks, or exclamation points.

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Poetry Strategies for Writing

• 3. Paraphrase
• Look up any dull or boring words and replace them
  with familiar synonyms.
• Use the language you use in everyday speech in a
  new and interesting way.
• Use your senses
• Use sensory details to create imagery. Create an
  experience for the reader.

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Narrative Poetry

• Narrative Poetry
• Poetry that tells a story. Like a story,
  narrative poetry has a plot, characters, and a
  setting.
• Unlike a story, a narrative poem makes use of
  sound devices, such as rhythm and repetition.

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Literary Analysis Form in Poetry

• Form refers to the physical structure of the poem
  and the rules the poet follows to achieve a
  particular structure.
• There are many different forms of poetry
  including stanza, concrete poem, and haiku.
• Stanza
• A group of lines that is like a paragraph in
  prose. Most traditional English poems are
  divided into stanzas.

A word is dead When it is said, Some say.  I
say it just Begins to live That day.
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Rhythm in Poetry

• Rhythm is a poems pattern of stressed () and
  unstressed (u) syllables.
• It is the accents of the syllables in the words
  falling at regular intervals like the beat of
  music.
• u u
  u
• He came/upon/an age
• de dumm de dumm de dumm

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Meter in Poetry

• The meter of a poem is its rhythmical pattern.
• The BEAT of poetry FEET is called its meter.
• Feet in poetry is single units of stressed ()
  and unstressed (u) syllables
• A poems meter is made up of what kind of feet
  are used and how many feet are in each line.
• u u u
  
• Beset/ by grief,/ by rage
• This line of poetry has three feet.
• Each foot has two syllables an unstressed
  followed by a stressed

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Rhyme in Poetry

• Rhyme is the repetition of a sound at the ends of
  nearby words
• Example age/rage dame/same
• Types of rhyme
• SINGLE RHYME- love/dove
• DOUBLE RHYME- napping/tapping
• TRIPLE RHYME- mournfully/scornfully

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Sound Devices Onomatopoeia

• Onomatopoeia
• The use of words whose sounds suggest their
  meaning
• Example sputter, drip, whisper, hiss, hoot,
  meow, murmur

• Plop plop, fizz fizz,
• oh, what a relief it is.
• -Alka Seltzer

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Sound Devices Alliteration

• Alliteration
• Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of
  words
• Example
• Full fathom five thy father lies
• In a summer season, where soft was sun

• Often the sounds and meanings of the words
  combine to create a mood.
• Here, repetition of b and t stresses a feeling of
  urgency.
• Hear the loud alarum bells--  
• Brazen bells!
• What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency
  tells!
• -Edgar Allen Poe, "The Bells"

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Sound Devices Assonance

• This selection uses the repetition of the e
  sound
• -Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep.
• -Shakespeare

• Assonance
• The repetition of the same vowel sound in
  different words
• Often creates near rhyme
• Lake Fate  Base  Fade

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Sound Devices Consonance

• Consonance
• The repetition of similar final consonant sounds
  that can be found anywhere in the words.

• Example
• silken, sad, uncertain, rustling

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Terms to help you

• For Jabberwocky
• Portmanteau words a word formed by combining two
  other words and their meanings.
• Beautiful and Fabulous Beautious

• Verbs- action words
• Adjectives- describing words
• Dialogue- characters talking to each other
• Foreshadowing- a hint about what is coming up