1. AIMS POETRY REVIEW

2. POETRY
A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)

3. POETRY LINE - a group of words together on one line of the poem
STANZA - a group of lines arranged together
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.

4. FREE VERSE POETRY
Does NOT rhyme.
Free verse poetry is very conversational - sounds like someone talking with you.
A more modern type of poetry.

5. RHYME
A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
Hector the Collector
Collected bits of string.
Collected dolls with broken heads
And rusty bells that would not ring.

6. RHYME SCHEME
A rhyme scheme is a pattern of rhyme (usually end rhyme, but not always).
Use the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually “see” the pattern. (See next slide for an example.)
Activity: Rhyme Scheme group game

7. SAMPLE RHYME SCHEME The Germ by Ogden Nash
A mighty creature is the germ,
Though smaller than the pachyderm.
His customary dwelling place
Is deep within the human race.
His childish pride he often pleases
By giving people strange diseases.
Do you, my poppet, feel infirm?
You probably contain a germ. a b c

8. ONOMATOPOEIA Words that imitate the sound they are naming BUZZ
OR sounds that imitate another sound
“The silken, sad, uncertain, rustling of
each purple curtain . . .”

9. ALLITERATION Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
Activity: Alliteration group game

10. SOME TYPES OF POETRY WE HAVE STUDIED

11. A frog jumps into the pond.
HAIKU
A Japanese poem written in three lines
Five Syllables
Seven Syllables
An old silent pond . . .
A frog jumps into the pond.
Splash! Silence again.

12. Tanka Thunderclouds building Gathering strength as they grow
X X X X X
Thunderclouds building
Gathering strength as they grow
Releasing themselves
Pouring life-giving torrents
Cleansing the world in shower
5 syllables
X X X X X X X
7 syllables
X X X X X
5 syllables
X X X X X X X
7 syllables
X X X X X X X
7 syllables

13. CINQUAIN A five line poem containing 22 syllables How frail
Two Syllables
Four Syllables
Six Syllables
Eight Syllables
How frail
Above the bulk
Of crashing water hangs
Autumnal, evanescent, wan
The moon.

14. Limerick There once was a puppy named Prince,
Who guarded his owner’s back fence
He barked at the man
Who picked up the can
Stealing garbage just didn’t make sense!
Rhymes with 2
What happens?
2 short snappy lines
How it ended?
Rhymes with 1 & 2

15. Diamante Diamond-shaped poem with 7 lines: Line 1: 1 NOUN-A
Line 2: 2 ADJECTIVES-A
Line 3: 3 GERUNDS-A (verb + -ing)
Line 4: 2 NOUNS-A + 2 NOUNS-B
Line 5: 3 GERUNDS-B (verb + -ing)
Line 6: 2 ADJECTIVES-B
Line 7: 1 NOUN-B

16. Diamante Winter Rainy, cold Skiing, skating, sledding
Mountains, wind, breeze, ocean
Swimming, surfing, scuba diving
Sunny, hot
Summer
1 noun A
2 adjectives A
3 verbs + -ing A
2 nouns A + 2 nouns B
3 verbs + -ing B
2 adjectives B
1 noun B

17. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

18. SIMILE
A comparison of two things using “like, as than,” or “resembles.”
“She is as beautiful as a sunrise.”

19. METAPHOR A direct comparison of two unlike things
“All the world’s a stage, and we are merely players.”
- William Shakespeare

20. Hyperbole Exaggeration often used for emphasis.
I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
You snore louder than a freight train.

21. Idiom
An expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression. It means something other than what it actually says.
Ex. It’s raining cats and dogs.

22. PERSONIFICATION
An animal given human-like qualities or an object given life-like qualities.
The water beckoned invitingly to the hot swimmers.
The sun greeted me this morning.
Snow wrapped a white blanket over the city.
Trees danced in the wind.
Time doesn’t wait for anyone.