PoetryPoetry Directions: Copy each literary term and the definition written in purple into your notebook. Leave space for examples when we go over the terms. You will have a TEST on these words, so make sure you know them!

1.Alliteration: –Repetition of initial consonant sounds –Example: Sister Suzy sat on the seashore until suddenly she was swallowed by a shark. 2.Allusion: –A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

3. Ballad: –A song-like poem that tells a story 4.Blank Verse: –Poetry that is unrhymed but has a pattern 5.Concrete Poem: –A poem that creates a shape that suggests the subject –Example: George Herbert’s Easter Wings and The Alter

6. Figurative Language: –Writing that is not meant to be taken literally –Example: He made me so mad I wanted to die. 7. Free Verse: –Poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter

8. Image: –A word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses 9.Lyric Poem: –musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker 10.Metaphor: –Comparison between 2 unlike things without using like or as –Example: He is such a pig when he eats!

11. Mood: –The feeling created in the reader by a literary work 12. Onomatopoeia: –The use of words that imitate sounds –Example: The buzz of the bee was very loud. 13.Personification: –a non-human subject is given human characteristics – Example: The tree waved excitedly in the wind.

14. Repetition: –The use, more than once, of any element of language 15. Rhyme: –Repetition of sounds at the end of words –Example: Roses are red, violets are blue… Rhyme Scheme: –A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem

17. Rhythm : –Pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language 18. Simile : –uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas 19. Stanza : –A formal division of lines in a poem considered as a unit My love is like a red rose.

20. Motif – Main or reoccurring theme. 21. Extended Metaphor – metaphor over several lines of poetry. 22. Pun – Double meaning

23. Confessional poetry – confession of an activity or an emotion 24. Elegy – Pays tribute to a person (usually dead) 25. Imagist poetry – uses lots of images to paint a picture for the reader.

26. Limerick– short, humorous poem in 5 lines 27. Acrostic Poem – a poem where the first letter of each word, spells out another word or message 28. Hyperbole– extreme exaggeration for humor

29. Couplet– a rhymed pair of lines 30. Heroic Couplet – 2 rhyming lines at the end of an epic 31. Irony– when what is expected and what happens are different(V, S, D)

32. Epic– long, narrative poem about a hero 33. Haiku– poem of 17 syllables, arranged in lines of 5, 7, 5

34. Meter– pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables 35. Ode– a lyric poem with serious themes; pays tribute to something

36. Oxymoron– when opposite terms appear together (ex: jumbo shrimp) 37. Parody– a poem created to imitate or impersonate something else; usually for humor

38. Prose– poetry that is not in verse form 39. Refrain– one or more lines that are repeated in the same spot of each stanza of a poem

40. Sonnet– poem written in a specific pattern and that contains 14 lines. 41. Stress– emphasis on a certain word or syllable of a poem

42. Symbol– person or object that represents something 43. Tone – the author’s attitude about a subject 44. Palindrome– a word that reads the same backwards and forwards

Limericks A limerick is a poem of five lines The first, second, and fifth lines have three rhythmic beats and rhyme with one another. The third and fourth lines have two beats and rhyme with one another. They are always light-hearted, humorous poems.

Humor Humor in poetry can arise from a number of sources: –Surprise –Exaggeration –Bringing together of unrelated things Most funny poems have two things in common: –Rhythm –Rhyme

Rhythm & Rhyme Using more spirited language makes humorous situations even more humorous “The Porcupine” By Ogden Nash Any hound a porcupine nudges Can’t be blamed for harboring grudges. I know one hound that laughed all winter At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.

If you take away the rhythm and rhyme, the humor vanishes. Any hound that touches a porcupine Can’t be blamed for holding a grudge I know one hound that laughed all winter long At a porcupine that sat on a piece of wood

Limericks There once was a man with no hair. He gave everyone quite a scare. He got some Rogaine, Grew out a mane, And now he resembles a bear!

Limerick About a Bee I wish that my room had a floor, I don’t care so much for a door. But this walking around Without touching the ground Is getting to be quite a bore.

Another Limerick There once was a very small mouse Who lived in a very small house, The ocean’s spray Washed it away, All that was left was her blouse!

You will create a limerick similar to this one… There once was a man from Beijing. All his life he hoped to be King. So he put on a crown, Which quickly fell down. That small silly man from Beijing.

Fill in the blanks and create your own Limerick. There once was a _____ from _____. All the while she/he hoped ________. So she/he ____________________, And ________________________, That _________ from ___________.