Transcript POETRY

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From Ballad to Blank Verse, Elegy,
Epic, Free Verse, Haiku, Limerick, and
Sonnets, Poetry is...
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The art of rhythmical composition,
written or spoken, for exciting pleasure
by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated
thoughts.
Literary work in metrical form; verse.
(The site says Prose but we’ll say) Text
with poetic qualities.
What some poets say it is:
•"Poetry is when emotion has found its thought and the thought has
found words“ - Robert Frost
•“Poetry at its best uses words to say more than words can say.” Marvin Bell
•"Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent,
makes your toe nails twinkle...“ -Dylan Thomas
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Simile
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Hyperbole
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Metaphor
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Symbolism
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Personification
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Alliteration
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Onomatopoeia
Connotative
Meaning
Denotative
Meaning
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Direct comparison of two things which
by their general nature are different
from each other
 Uses “like” or “as”
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Implied comparison between two unlike
things
 Usually uses a form of “to be” verb (is, are, was,
were)
 Does not use “like” or “as”
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Giving human characteristics to an
animal, object, or idea
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Repeating consonant sounds in two or
more words or syllables
◦ Karl cooks cookies.
◦ Carl can catch.
◦ Mommy makes me mad!
◦ Phil fired Fanny Fay.
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Words that imitate sounds
◦ Snap! Crackle! Pop!
◦ Slam! Zip! Zoom! Pow!
◦ Buzz! Bang! Zap!
◦ Clank! Clang! Drip! Drop!
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Extreme exaggeration
◦ I’m so hungry I could eat an entire horse!!
◦ Your uncle’s so fat, he walked in front of my
TV and I missed 3 episodes!
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Something concrete, such as an object,
person, place or happening, that stands
for something abstract such as an idea,
quality, concept, or condition
◦ Heart=love Peace sign=Peace
◦ 4-leaf clover=luck Flag=freedom
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Emotional meaning of a word beyond the dictionary
meaning of the word
◦ Euphemism: A nicer way to say something (positive
connotation or spin)
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passed away
slender
Husky or big boned
A face only a mother could love
Wise or aged
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Dictionary meaning of a
word—literal meaning
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Concrete details that appeal to the five
senses
◦ Touch, sight, sound, smell, taste
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Lines
Stanzas
Rhyme and Rhyme Scheme
Couplets
Quatrains
Rhythm
Meter
Iambic Pentameter
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Correspondence, in two or more words,
of ending sounds
◦ End Rhyme: a rhyme that occurs in the
last syllable of lines
◦ Internal Rhyme: Rhyme between a word
within a line and another word at the
end of the same line
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A regular pattern of rhyming words
Corresponding lines that rhyme with
each other in a stanza— represented by
letters of the alphabet for each new
rhyme
Line
Line
Line
Line
1:
2:
3:
4:
Roses are red A
Violets are blue B
Sugar is sweet C
And so are you B
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formal division of lines in a
poem, considered as a unit
◦ “Poetry Paragraph”
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Two successive lines of poetry marked by
end rhyme – usually expresses a single
idea:
My love for you
Will always be true
You are mine
And that is just fine
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stanza made up of 4 lines
usually with a definite rhythm
and rhyme scheme
 Pattern
of accented and
unaccented syllables in spoken
and written language
 Used to pace the poem
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The meter of the poem is its rhythmical
pattern determined by the number and
types of stresses or beats
English verse is described as being made
up of rhythmical units called “feet”
A foot consists of some combination of
unstressed (˘) and stressed (´) syllables
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One unaccented syllable followed by an
accented syllable
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English speech—natural iambic beat
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Sounds like a heartbeat
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˘ deck/
´ once
˘ red/with
´ ˘ he/rose
´ ˘ blood”
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“Her
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Ballad
Blank Verse
Elegy
Epic
Free Verse
Haiku
Limerick
Sonnets
Shakespearian or English Sonnets
A 14-line lyric poem usually
written in rhymed iambic
pentameter
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Three quatrains and a couplet
Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg
Written in iambic pentameter
 Unrhymed
verse written in
iambic pentameter (an
unstressed syllable usually
begins the line)
 Poetry
that follows no set patterns
of rhyme, meter, or line length
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A traditional Japanese 3-line poem
containing 5 syllables in the first line, 7
in the second, and 5 again in the third
It presents a picture, or image, in order
to around specific emotions in the reader
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single narrative poem in 4line stanzas, usually meant to
be sung and usually rhyming
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A poem that laments the dead,
frequently long and formal in
tone
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A long story, often told in verse, involving
heroes and gods
Grand in length and scope, an epic provides a
portrait of an entire culture, of the legends,
beliefs, values, laws, arts and ways of life of a
people
Example:
The Odyssey
Short, 5-line humorous poem
 Rhyme scheme: aabba
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There was an old man of the isles
Who suffered severely from piles
He couldn’t sit down
Without a deep frown
So he had to row standing for miles
(Contributed by Natalie Moffitt)
Found on
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