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• Poetry


  A form of literary expression that captures intense experiences or creative perceptions of the world in a musical language
• Poetry is not prose
• Prose


  The ordinary language people use in speaking or writing
• Basically, if prose is like talking, poetry is like singing
• Poetry


  • It is based on the interplay of words and rhythm
  • It often employs rhyme and meter (a set of rules governing the number and arrangement of syllables in each line)
  • Words are strung together to form sounds, images, and ideas that might be too complex or abstract to describe directly
• Poetry


  • A literary work in verse writing of high quality, great beauty, a piece of art, with emotional sincerity or intensity, a graceful expression showing imagination and deep feeling with beautiful and elegant quality
  • A profound insight that enables a poet to idealize reality and to see the things or situations in a particular way, to express his feelings of his own accord and to represent them in such a way as to delight the readers

  
• Poetry


  • A form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities
  • It says things in special ways that please the ear and stir your feeling

  
• Speaker (in poetry)

  A voice that talks to the reader, not necessarily the poet. It can also be a fictional person, an animal or even a thing
• Poetry formatting


  • A line is a word or row of words that may or may not form a complete sentence
  • A stanza is a group of lines forming a unit, separated by a space
• Poetry elements


  • Rhythm
  • Sound
  • Imagery
  • Form
  • Voice
  • Mood
• Rhythm


  The flow of the beat in a poem, giving it a musical feel. Can be fast or slow, depending on mood and subject of poem. Can be measured in meter, by counting the beats in each line
• Rhythm example


  • When the night begins to fall
  • And the sky begins to glow
  • You look up and see the tall
  • City of lights begin to grow
  • In rows and little golden squares
  • The lights come out. First here, then there
  • Behind the windowpanes as though
  • A million billion bees had built
  • Their golden hives and honeycombs
  • Above you in the air
• Sound devices in poetry

  • Rhyme
  • Repetition
  • Alliteration
  • Onomatopoeia
• Rhyme


  Words that end with the same sound. Rhyming sounds don't have to be spelled the same way. Rhyme is the most common sound device in poetry
• Rhyming patterns


  • AABB
  • ABAB
  • ABBA
  • ABCB
• AABB rhyming pattern


  • Snow makes whiteness where it falls.
  • The bushes look like popcorn balls.
  • And places where I always play,
  • Look like somewhere else today.
• ABAB rhyming pattern


  • I love noodles. Give me oodles.
  • Make a mound up to the sun.
  • Noodles are my favorite foodles.
  • I eat noodles by the ton.
• ABBA rhyming pattern

  • Let me fetch sticks,
  • Let me fetch stones,
  • Throw me your bones,
  • Teach me your tricks.
• ABCB rhyming pattern


  • The alligator chased his tail
  • Which hit him in the snout;
  • He nibbled, gobbled, swallowed it,
  • And turned right inside-out.
• Repetition


  Occurs when poets repeat words, phrases, or lines in a poem. Creates a pattern, increases rhythm, and strengthens feelings, ideas and mood in a poem
• Repetition example

  • Some one tossed a pancake,
  • A buttery, buttery, pancake.
  • Someone tossed a pancake
  • And flipped it up so high,
  • That now I see the pancake,
  • The buttery, buttery pancake,
  • Now I see that pancake
  • Stuck against the sky.
• Alliteration


  The repetition of the first consonant sound in words
• Onomatopoeia


  Words that represent the actual sound of something
• Onomatopoeia example


  • Scrunch, scrunch, scrunch.
  • Crunch, crunch, crunch.
  • Frozen snow and brittle ice
  • Make a winter sound that's nice
  • Underneath my stamping feet
  • And the cars along the street.
  • Scrunch, scrunch, scrunch.
  • Crunch, crunch, crunch.
• Imagery


  The use of words to create pictures, or images, in your mind. Appeals to the five senses: smell, sight, hearing, taste and touch
• Figures of speech


  Tools that writers use to create images, or "paint pictures," in your mind. Includes similes, metaphors, and personification
• Simile


  A comparison of two things using the words "like" or "as"
• Simile example


  • An emerald is as green as grass,
  • A ruby red as blood;
  • A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
  • A flint lies in the mud.
• Metaphor


  A comparison of two things without using the words "like" or "as"
• Metaphor example


  • The Night is a big black cat
  • The moon is her topaz eye,
  • The stars are the mice she hunts at night,
  • In the field of the sultry sky.
• Personification


  Giving human traits and feelings to things that are not human – like animals or objects
• Forms of poetry


  • Couplet
  • Tercet
  • Acrostic
  • Cinquain
  • Haiku
  • Concrete Poem
  • Free Verse
  • Limerick
• Lines and stanzas

  Most poems are written in lines. A group of lines in a poem is called a stanza, which separates ideas in a poem like paragraphs
• Lines and stanzas example

  • March
  • A blue day
  • A blue jay
  • And a good beginning.
  • One crow,
  • Melting snow –
  • Spring's winning!
• Couplet


  A poem, or stanza in a poem, written in two lines, usually rhyming
• Couplet example


  • The Jellyfish
  • Who wants my jellyfish?
  • I'm not sellyfish!
• Tercet


  A poem, or stanza, written in three lines, usually rhyming. Lines 1 and 2 can rhyme; lines 1 and 3 can rhyme; sometimes all 3 lines rhyme
• Tercet example


  • Winter Moon
  • How thin and sharp is the moon tonight!
  • How thin and sharp and ghostly white
  • Is the slim curved crook of the moon tonight!
• Quatrain


  A poem, or stanza, written in four lines, usually rhyming. The quatrain is the most common form of stanza used in poetry
• Quatrain example


  • The Lizard
  • The lizard is a timid thing
  • That cannot dance or fly or sing;
  • He hunts for bugs beneath the floor
  • And longs to be a dinosaur.