Narrative Poetry Exploring the Genre

Poetry: Exploring the Genre Whether telling a story, capturing a single moment, or describing nature in a whole new way, poetry is the most musical of all literary forms.

Poetry: Strategies for Writing Writing poetry is like creating a mystery. You provide the reader with clues in the form of words and phrases. These clues are pieces that form a complete picture. Use these strategies to help guide you:

Poetry: Strategies 1.Figurative Language –Figurative language is language not meant to be taken literally. –Helps to create vivid, clear mental pictures. –Think: What are you trying to SHOW the reader 2.Punctuating Lines –The reader continues reading when a line has no punctuation at the end. –Create pause with commas, dashes, and semicolons. –Create stops with end marks, like periods, question marks, or exclamation points.

Poetry: Strategies for Writing 3.Paraphrase –Look up any dull or boring words and replace them with familiar synonyms. –Use the language you use in everyday speech in a new and interesting way. 4. Use your senses –Use sensory details to create imagery. Create an experience for the reader.

Narrative Poetry Narrative Poetry: Poetry that tells a story. Like a story, narrative poetry has a plot, characters, and a setting. Unlike a story, a narrative poem makes use of sound devices, such as rhythm and repetition.

Literary Analysis: Form in Poetry Form refers to the physical structure of the poem and the rules the poet follows to achieve a particular structure. –There are many different forms of poetry including stanza, concrete poem, and haiku. Stanza: –A group of lines that is like a paragraph in prose. Most traditional English poems are divided into stanzas. A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.

Rhythm in Poetry Rhythm is a poem’s pattern of stressed (`) and unstressed (u) syllables. It is the accents of the syllables in the words falling at regular intervals like the beat of music. u ` u ` u ` –He came/upon/an age –“de dumm de dumm de dumm”

Meter in Poetry The meter of a poem is its rhythmical pattern. The BEAT of poetry FEET is called its meter. –Feet in poetry is single units of stressed (`) and unstressed (u) syllables A poem’s meter is made up of what kind of feet are used and how many feet are in each line. u ` u ` u ` –Beset/ by grief,/ by rage –This line of poetry has three feet. –Each foot has two syllables: an unstressed followed by a stressed

Rhyme in Poetry Rhyme is the repetition of a sound at the ends of nearby words –Example: age/rage; dame/same Types of rhyme: –SINGLE RHYME- love/dove –DOUBLE RHYME- napping/tapping –TRIPLE RHYME- mournfully/scornfully

Sound Devices: Onomatopoeia Onomatopoeia –The use of words whose sounds suggest their meaning –Example: sputter, drip, whisper, hiss, hoot, meow, murmur Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh, what a relief it is. -Alka Seltzer

Sound Devices: Alliteration Alliteration – Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words –Example: “Full fathom five thy father lies” “In a summer season, where soft was sun” Often the sounds and meanings of the words combine to create a mood. –Here, repetition of b and t stresses a feeling of urgency. Hear the loud alarum bells-- Brazen bells! What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells! -Edgar Allen Poe, "The Bells"

Sound Devices: Assonance Assonance –The repetition of the same vowel sound in different words –Often creates near rhyme –Lake Fate Base Fade This selection uses the repetition of the e sound: -Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep. -Shakespeare

Sound Devices: Consonance Consonance: –The repetition of similar final consonant sounds that can be found anywhere in the words. Example: –silken, sad, uncertain, rustling

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Terms to help you: For Jabberwocky: Portmanteau words: a word formed by combining two other words and their meanings. Beautiful and Fabulous: Beautious Verbs- action words Adjectives- describing words Dialogue- characters talking to each other Foreshadowing- a hint about what is coming up