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POETRY
POETRY
A type of literature
that expresses
ideas, feelings, or
tells a story in a
specific form
(usually using lines
and stanzas)
POINT OF VIEW IN POETRY
POET
The poet is the author
of the poem.
SPEAKER
The speaker of the
poem is the “narrator”
of the poem.
POETRY FORM
FORM - the
appearance of the
words on the page
LINE - a group of
words together on one
line of the poem
STANZA - a group of
lines arranged together
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.
Lines and Stanzas Example
Rain by Shel Silverstein
I opened my eyes
And looked up at the rain,
And it dripped in my head
And flowed into my brain,
And all that I hear as I lie in my bed
Is the slishity-slosh of the rain in my head.
I step very softly,
I walk very slow,
I can't do a handstand-I might overflow,
So pardon the wild crazy thing I just said-I'm just not the same since there's rain in my head.
SOUND EFFECTS
RHYTHM
The beat created by
the sounds of the
words in a poem
Rhythm can be seen
with repetition or the
number of syllables in
the poem.
RHYME
Words sound alike
because they share the
same ending vowel
and consonant sounds.
(A word always
rhymes with itself.)
LAMP
STAMP
Share the short “a”
vowel sound
Share the combined
“mp” consonant sound
END RHYME
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a
word at the end of another line
Hector the Collector
Collected bits of string.
Collected dolls with broken heads
And rusty bells that would not ring.
ONOMATOPOEIA
Words that imitate the sound it represents
BUZZ
Can you think of any other examples?
ALLITERATION
Consonant sounds repeated at the
beginnings of words
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers, how many pickled peppers did
Peter Piper pick?
REFRAIN
A sound, word, phrase
or line repeated
regularly in a poem.
Refrain by Allen
Ginsberg
The air is dark, the night is sad,
I lie sleepless and I groan.
Nobody cares when a man goes mad:
He is sorry, God is glad.
Shadow changes into bone.
Every shadow has a name;
When I think of mine I moan,
I hear rumors of such fame.
Not for pride, but only shame,
Shadow changes into bone.
When I blush I weep for joy,
And laughter drops from me like a
stone:
The aging laughter of the boy
To see the ageless dead so coy.
Shadow changes into bone.
FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE
SIMILE
A comparison of two things using “like, as
than,” or “resembles.”
“She is as beautiful as a sunrise.”
METAPHOR
A direct comparison of two unlike things
Examples:
– Kathy arrived at the grocery store with an army
of children.
– Laughter is the music of the soul.
– The test was a walk in the park.
Idiom
An expression where the literal meaning of
the words is not the meaning of the
expression. It means something other than
what it actually says.
Ex. It’s raining cats and dogs.
PERSONIFICATION
An animal or
an object
given humanlike or life-like
qualities.
the sun played hide and seek with the
clouds
The headlights winked
The radio sprang to life at the touch
of a button
The wind whispered softly in the
night
Lightning danced across the sky