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Poetry
How to build a poem: Poetry Toolbox
Poetry Defined
• Poetry: writing that uses language
and structure to create an emotional
response
Poetry Toolbox: Meaning
• Descriptive Imagery: words that
paint a vivid picture in your mind!
• Similes
• Metaphors
• Personification
Similes
Alliteration
Metaphors
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Similes & Metaphors
• Similes: figure of speech that
compares 2 UNLIKE things using the
words like or as
• Metaphors: figure of speech that
compares 2 UNLIKE things WITHOUT
using the words like or as
Personification
• How does the word “person” fit into the
definition of “person”ification??
• What does personification add to a poem?
Similes
Metaphors
Personification
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Poetry Toolbox: Music
• Writer’s use tools to create rhyme
and rhythm in a poem.
• What is the difference between the
two?
Similes
Alliteration
Metaphors
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Poetry Toolbox: Rhyme & Rhythm
• Rhyme: words or lines in a poem
with similar ending sounds
• Rhythm: recurring movement of
sound or speech
What do you hear?
Rain in Summer – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and heat,
In the broad and fiery street,
in the narrow lane,
How beautiful is the rain!
How it clatters along the roofs,
Like the ramp of hoofs!
How it gushes and struggles out
From the throat of the overflowing spout
Across the window pane
It pours and pours;
And swift and wide,
With a muddy tide,
Like a river down the gutter roars
The rain, the welcome rain!
The sick man from his chamber looks
At the twisted brooks;
He can feel the cool
Breath of each little pool;
His fevered brain
Grows calm again,
And he breathes a blessing on the rain
From the neighboring school
Come the boys,
With more than their wonted noise
And commotion;
And down the wet streets
Sail their mimic fleets,
Till the treacherous pool
Engulfs them in its whirling
And turbulent ocean.
In the country, on every side,
Where far and wide,
Like a leopard’s tawny and spotted hide,
Stretches the plain,
To the dry grass and the drier grain
How welcome is the rain
Poetry Toolbox: Music
• Watch this video!
• What did you notice?
Tools for Making Music
• Alliteration: the same sound
repeated at the beginning of words
• Helps writers achieve rhythm by
directing a reader’s attention to
certain sounds, which affects the
words that are stressed
• Examples? 
Show What You Know
• Let’s try to use alliteration to write a
tongue twister!
• Be prepared to try them out on your
classmates.
Tools for Making Music
• Onomatopoeia: words that imitate
sounds
• Onomatopoeia video
– (How many examples can you find?)
Similes
Alliteration
Metaphors
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Show What You Know
• Let’s enhance our writing
• Add onomatopoeia to your tongue
twister!
• Be prepared to try them out on your
classmates.
Free Verse Poetry
• composed of either rhymed or
unrhymed lines that have no set
fixed metrical pattern
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NO SET LINE LENGTH
NO SET RHYTHM
NO RHYMING PATTERN
WAY OF CONVEYING IDEAS AND FEELINGS
CAREFULLY CRAFTED WORD PICTURE
Using the Writer’s Toolbox
• 6 Room Poetry: tool used to help writers
with descriptive imagery
• Walk through 6 “rooms” to add sensory
cues to your poetry
• Use the other tools from your toolbox as
you walk through the rooms
(i.e. in “sounds” room,
consider ways to use
onomatopoeia or
alliteration to add
rhyme and rhythm)
Similes
Alliteration
Metaphors
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Using Writer’s Toolbox
• Heart Mapping: tool writers use to
organize what is really important to
them
• Brainstorm ideas about things that
are important to you
Show What You Know
• Using your heart map, select a topic
about which you would like to write a
poem.
• Walk through the 6 Rooms to help you
describe your topic.
• Write a free verse poem.
• Look back at your poem and add
figurative language to enhance the
descriptive imagery and music of your
poem.
• CONGRATULATIONS! YOU ARE A POET!