Poetry Unit - Granville County Schools
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POETRY UNIT
S.C.O.S: 5.01 and 5.02
WARM-UP:
Write a definition for each word in the
homograph pairs below:
Hair/hare
Flour/flower
Pail/pale
Reign/rein
WHAT IS POETRY?
It is a way of organized writing that uses lines
instead of paragraphs.
Elements of Poetry:
Form
Sound
Figurative Language
Imagery
ELEMENTS OF POETRY
Form: the way it looks on the page
Types of Form:
Stanza: groups of lines (4,6,8)
Blank Verse: lines have rhythm but do not rhyme
Free Verse: lines have no rhythm or rhyme
Rhymed: word at the end of some lines rhyme or
sound alike
Couplet: 2 consecutive lines that rhyme
ELEMENTS OF POETRY
Sonnet: 14 lines with a particular rhyme scheme
Haiku: a poem of 3 lines with specific syllables in
each line (5, 7, 5) and mostly about nature
Concrete: a poem that makes a picture on the
page
Internal rhyme: 2 or more words in the same line
rhyme. Ex: The cat in the hat.
SOUND
Helps express meaning and emotions
Types of Sound:
Rhythm: pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Rhyme: words that sound the same or similar (hat, cat)
Alliteration: repeating beginning consonant sounds (big,
black bear)
Assonance: repeating vowel sounds (the cat in the hat sat on
a tac)
Onomatopoeia: a word that represents a sound (bang, hiss,
pop)
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Language that is NOT meant word for word
Types of Figurative Language:
Simile: a comparison that uses the words LIKE or AS
Metaphor: a comparison that DOES NOT use the words like
or as
Personification: giving human actions or features to
something that is not human, (the stars winked at me)
Hyperbole: an exaggeration (He weighs a ton!)
Idiom: a phrase that has a meaning different from the
literal meaning. (Hit the books)
Oxymoron: opposite or contradictory terms used in a
combined form (pretty ugly)
IMAGERY
Word or phrases that appeal to the 5 senses
“I could taste the sourness of the lemon as it made my
lips pucker.”
KINDS OF POEMS
Narrative: poems that tell a story
Epic: a long poem about a hero
Ballad: a poem that was originally sung (we still call
songs ballads)
Dramatic: a poem that has a conversation among
characters. Think Shakespeare!
Lyric: a poem that expresses that poet’s thoughts and
feelings
TODAY IS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2010
Warm-up: Identify the simile in the following
example. Copy the lines in this poem and
underline the simile in each line.: “ The willow is
like an etching, fine lined against the sky. The
ginkgo is like a crude sketch, hardly worthy to be
signed.”
TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8,
2010
Warm-up: In your own words answer the
following question: What is a haiku?
HAIKU
From the Japanese we have inherited the
sensitive yet powerful haiku (high-coo). It is a
three-line, seventeen syllable, unrhymed poem
about nature.
It captures a moment in nature or in life and
allows the reader to visualize the scene.
LETS LOOK AT THE FOLLOWING EXAMPLES:
An old silent pond (5)
A frog jumps into the pond (7)
Splash, silence again.(5)
Basho
What images do you see when you hear this poem?
In the darkest woods (5)
A weeping willow tree cries (7)
Who made such sadness? (5)
G.Lipson
What images do you see when you hear this poem?
What are the descriptive phrases used in this
poem?
LET’S PRACTICE:
Take these words and turn them into descriptive
phrases:
For example: lake can be used like this: A lazy, placid
lake.
Sun
Willow tree
Night sky
Ocean
Beach
TODAY IS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2010
Warm-up: Write 2 definitions for each word
below:
Count
Down
Fast
Fly
TODAY’S AGENDA:
Take out your haiku worksheets
With a Partner share your haiku’s and answer
the following questions together:
Does the first line in my poem have 5 syllables?
Does the second line in my poem have 7 syllables?
Does the last line in my poem have 5 syllables?
What is my partner’s haiku about?
Are there any mispelled words in my haiku?
What changes will you make to make your haiku
more descriptive?
FINALIZE HAIKU
On a clean sheet of regular or construction paper,
re-write your haiku and decorate it.
Put you First and Last name, class period, and
today’s date on the back of your poem.
TODAY IS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
Warm-up: Write 3 definitions for each
homograph:
Lap
Meter
Pound
Spell