Reading Poetry Mrs. Kaminicki
Poetry Literature that uses the sounds, rhythms, and meanings of words to describe the world.
Poetry Elements Lines - groups of words Stanzas - organized units of lines - work together to express one key idea
Poetry Elements Stanza Break - blank line - signals one stanza has ended a new stanza is beginning
Poetry Elements repeat at regular intervals - reminds readers and Refrain - a line or group of lines that repeat at regular intervals - reminds readers and listeners of a key idea, image, or event Variations - changing one or more words with each repetition
Sound Devices and unstressed syllables in words. Rhythm - a beat created by stressed and unstressed syllables in words. Meter - a pattern of rhythm. Feet - measures meter in poetry.
Each foot consists of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. This down-up, down-up rhythmic pattern fits the subject of a boy swinging on the branches of trees.
Sound Devices consonant sounds at the ends of words. *Tin and Pin Rhyme - the repetition of vowel and consonant sounds at the ends of words. *Tin and Pin Rhyme Scheme - a particular pattern that rhymes follow.
Sound Device Alliteration - the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginnings of words.
Sound Device Onomatopoeia - the use of words that imitate sounds.
CAN YOU FIND the Examples of Onomatopoeia?
SIMILE in which one thing is compared to another unlike thing by using A form of comparison in which one thing is compared to another unlike thing by using specific words of comparison like LIKE, AS, and RESEMBLES.
METAPHOR Compares two things, doesn't use like or as
PERSONIFICATION •Speaking of something that is not human as if it had human abilities and human reactions.