Transcript Poetry - Granite Oaks Middle School

POETRY
LITERARY AND SOUND DEVICES
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Theme: the main idea, moral, or message
Tone: conveys feeling and emotion, sets the
mood for the work
Hyperbole: extreme exaggeration
The books weigh a ton.
 I could sleep for a year.
 I have a million things to do.
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Symbolism: representing things by means of
symbols, objects
 Simile:
a comparison of two nouns using the
words like or as
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“My love for you is like a red, red rose”
 Metaphor:
a comparison of two nouns saying
that one thing is another
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“All the world is a stage”
Personification: when a non-living object has
been given qualities of a person
The wind whispered through the trees
 The moon danced on the water
 “Oreo: Milk’s favorite cookie.”
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Alliteration: the repetition of a sound at the
beginning of a series of words
“Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers…”
 A fly and a flea flew up in a flue.
Said the fly to the flea, “What shall we do?”
“Let’s fly,” said the flea.
“Let’s flee,” said the fly.
So they fluttered and flew up a flaw in the flue
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Internal Rhyme: the rhyming of words within
one line of poetry
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“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,
weak and weary…
…While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there
came a tapping...”
Rhythm: The rise and fall of the voice, produced
by sounds
 Imagery: the use of details/description to create
mental images
 Onomatopoeia: the use of words whose sound
makes one think of its meaning
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Wham! Bonk!
Ding-dong
“Cuckoo”
Tick-tock
“snap, crackle, pop”
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Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds at
any place in a series of words
Do you like blue?
 We viewed the movie about mooing rookies at the
school.
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“Well he seemed so low that I couldn’t say no” –
Robert Service (“The Cremation of Sam McGee, pg.
709)
Meter: when sounds occur in a particular
pattern
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In “Paul Revere’s Ride” the meter sounds like a horse
galloping: da da DUM da da DUM
 Line:
a single line of poetry
 Stanza: a division in a poem named for the
number of lines it contains, such as a
couplet (2 lines), quatrain (4 lines)
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This is as though the poem is broken up into
“paragraphs”
 “Gleaming in silver are the hills!
Blazing in silver is the sea!
And a silvery radiance spills
Where the moon drives royally!”
–James Stevens, “Washed in Silver”
RHYME
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Rhyme: repetition of similar sounds in two or
more words
End Rhyme: rhyme that appears at the end of
two or more lines of poetry
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“I would not, could not, in a box.
I could not, would not, with a fox.
I will not eat them with a mouse.
I will not eat them in a house.
I will not eat them here or there.
I will not eat them anywhere.
I do not eat green eggs and ham.
I do not like them, Sam-I-am.”
RHYME
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Approximate Rhyme: words in a rhyming
pattern that have the same kind of sound, but
are not perfect rhymes
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“Hear “and “Mirror”
Iambic Pentameter: rhythm measured in small
groups of syllables
An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
(“five feet”)
 daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM
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Rhyme Scheme: the pattern of rhyme between
lines
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A,B,A,B
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Voice: tone, patterns of sound, rhythm, and
diction-gives printed word personality
Figurative Language: exaggerate or alter the
usual meanings of words
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Simile, Metaphor, Hyperbole
Sensory Language: words that evoke the
senses-smell, taste, touch, sound
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Consonance: The repetition of a consonant
sound at any place in a series of words.
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I dropped the locket in the thick mud.
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Eric liked the black book
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“And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple
curtain.” –Edgar Allen Poe
Light Verse: humorous, usually brief, often
include puns and alliteration
 Blank Verse: written in unrhymed iambic
pentameter, most common form
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Prose: lacks the formal metrical structure of
verse, comprises full, grammatical sentences
 Refrain: a regularly repeated line or group of
lines in a poem or song
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TYPES OF POETRY
Lyric: A poem that expresses feelings, but
does not tell a story
 Narrative: A poem that tells a story
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Ballad: A song/songlike poem that tells a
story, usually about lost love, betrayal, or
death
 Epic: A long narrative poem written in formal,
elegant language that tells about a series of
quests undertaken by a great hero
 Ode: A long, complex poem in elegant
language which celebrates one person or
thing
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TYPES OF POETRY
Elegy: A poem of mourning, usually about
someone who died or a away of life that is
gone forever
 Sonnet: A poem of fourteen lines in iambic
pentameter; variations include the Italian
sonnet and Shakespearean sonnet
 Free Verse: A poem that does not follow a
regular rhyme scheme or meter
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