1. Poetry
By T. Jasmine

2. Objectives Learn about the genre of poetry.
Identify and understand poetic elements and devices.
After a guided practice you will be able to identify poetic elements and devices in your favorite song.

3. What is poetry?

4. Poetry
Poetry is the most musical form. Poets choose words for both sound and meaning.

5. Elements Sound Devices-Add a musical quality to poetry. Alliteration
Sensory language is writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses- sight, sound, smell, taste , and touch.
Figurative Language- imaginative Writing that is not meant to be taken literally.
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Sound Devices-Add a musical quality to poetry.
Alliteration
Repetition
Assonance
Consonance
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme

6. Describes one thing as if it were another.
Figurative Language
Metaphor
Describes one thing as if it were another.
The house was a zoo!
Personification
Gives human qualities to something that is not human.
The wind whispered to us.
Simile
Uses like or as to compare two unlike things.
The stars were like a diamond necklace.

7. Sensory Imagery Visual “May the warp be the white light of morning”
Touch
“Holding a smooth pebble”
Taste
“The sweet strawberry reminded me of memories from the past”
Smell
“The fragrant perfume invaded the room”
Auditory
“That we may walk fittingly where birds sing”

8. Sound Devices Alliteration
Repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of words.
slippery slope
Repetition
Repeated use of a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence.
bells, bells, bells, bells
Assonance
Repetition of a vowel sound followed by different consonants in stressed syllables.
close, home, alone, erode
Consonance
Repetition of consonant sound at the end of accented words.
sand, wind, defend
Onomatopoeia
Use of words that imitate sounds.
crash, hiss
Rhyme
Repetition of a sound at the end of words.
near, year

9. Different types of poetry
Lyric- consists of a poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet.
Narrative- Tells a story in lines and stanzas. Includes characters and actions.
Ballads- Poems that tell a story, the are like songs and may have a chorus. They often deal with adventure and romance.
Free Verse- Is poetry that does not rhyme or have a set number of syllables. It has no patterns, such as four lines per stanza.
Haiku- Japanese poems with three lines. The first and third lines each have five syllables. The second seven.
Rhyming Couplets- Pairs of rhyming lines usually with the same number of syllables.
Limericks- Humorous poems with five lines.

10. Guided Practice Caring Cats
Caring cats cascade off Laughing lamas Lounging. Underneath yelling yaks, Yelling at roaming Rats.
SENSES Sadness is as happy as laughter. You might cry because it hurts. You might laugh because it hurts. But I know one thing, laughter is laughter and sadness is sadness. They can show the same things like hurting and gladness.

11. Guided Practice
SNOW
Snow speaks to the people its falling above in the glooming sunlight. Its white sparkling voice echoes as it falls through the air.
Inside the ocean
I see fish. Inside the waves I hear a splash. Inside the water I felt a fish. It seems so big, as big as a whale. It has to be, But then I see, It's a tuna fish.

12. Guided Practice
Cafeteria Boom! Went the food trays. Clap! Clap! Goes the teacher. Rip! Went the plastic bag. Munch! Munch!
Go the students. Slurp!!! Went the straws. Whisper Is what half the kids in the room are doing. Crunch! Crunch! go the candy bars.

13. Guided Practice I AM A SWORD
I am a sword, Sharper than a tongue Nobody can defeat me, Because I am a sword, I can not be hurt by what people say About me, I will not show my anger Against Someone else.
O our Mother the Earth, O our Father the Sky, Your children are we, and with tired backs We bring you the gifts you love. Then weave for us a garment of brightness; May the warp be the white light of morning, May the weft be the red light of evening, May the fringes be the falling rain, May the border be the standing rainbow. Thus weave for us a garment of brightness, That we may walk fittingly where birds sing, That we may walk fittingly where grass is green, O our Mother the Earth, O our Father the Sky.

14. Game

15. Individual Practice
Read your song. Write in a paragraph the message the song is trying to transmit.
Search in the song for as many poetic elements as you can.

16. Reference Prentice Hall Text Book.