1. POETRY REVIEW

2. Poetry Basics POET – person who wrote the poem.
SPEAKER – the voice that “talks” to the reader, similar to the narrator in fiction.
* The speaker and the poet are usually different. For example, in Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son,” the speaker is an older woman, not the male poet.

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

4. A comparison of two things using “like or as”
“She is as beautiful as a sunrise.”

5. Simile A comparison of two things using “like or as”
“She is as beautiful as a sunrise.”

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

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

8. Exaggeration often used for emphasis.
"I nearly died laughing"
"I was hopping mad“
"I tried a thousand times“

9. Hyperbole Exaggeration often used for emphasis.
"I nearly died laughing"
"I was hopping mad“
"I tried a thousand times“

10. A nonhuman thing given human qualities.

11. Personification
A nonhuman thing given human qualities.

12. When a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself also represents, or stands for, something else.
= Innocence
= America
= Peace

13. Symbolism
When a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself also represents, or stands for, something else.
= Innocence
= America
= Peace

14. __________ comes from the verb “allude” which means “to refer to”
An __________ is a reference to something famous.
Little Johnny told his parents a cheesy story about why he was home so long after curfew. His mother finally stopped him and asked, “Are you crying wolf?”

15. Allusion
Allusion comes from the verb “allude” which means “to refer to”
An allusion is a reference to something famous.
Little Johnny told his parents a cheesy story about why he was home so long after curfew. His mother finally stopped him and asked, “Are you crying wolf?”

16. Language that appeals to the senses.
Most images are visual, but they can also appeal to the senses of sound, touch, taste, or smell.
The sweet taste of Ambrosia,
the roses perfuming the air,
never again would there be a time so fair.

17. Imagery Language that appeals to the senses.
Most images are visual, but they can also appeal to the senses of sound, touch, taste, or smell.
The sweet taste of Ambrosia,
the roses perfuming the air,
never again would there be a time so fair.

18. 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

19. 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 19

20. Similar to alliteration EXCEPT . . .
The repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words
“silken, sad, uncertain, rustling . . “

21. Consonance Similar to alliteration EXCEPT . . .
The repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words
“silken, sad, uncertain, rustling . . “

22. (All share the long “a” sound.)
Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of poetry.
(Often creates near rhyme.)
Lake Fate Base Fade
(All share the long “a” sound.)

23. (All share the long “a” sound.)
Assonance
Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of poetry.
(Often creates near rhyme.)
Lake Fate Base Fade
(All share the long “a” sound.)

24. Assonance cont. Examples of ASSONANCE:
“Slow the low gradual moan came in the snowing.”
John Masefield
“Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep.”
- William Shakespeare

25. Words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds.
LAMP
STAMP
DOOR
SNORE
JIMMY
GIMME
Activity: Rhyme group game

26. Rhyme
Words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds.
(A word always rhymes with itself.)
LAMP
STAMP
DOOR
SNORE
JIMMY
GIMME
Activity: Rhyme group game 26

27. Does NOT rhyme.
___________ is very conversational - sounds like someone talking with you.
Running through a field of clover, Stop to pick a daffodil I play he loves me, loves me not, The daffy lies, it says he does not love me! Well, what use a daffy When Jimmy gives me roses? -- Flora Launa

28. Free Verse Poetry Does NOT rhyme.
Free verse poetry is very conversational - sounds like someone talking with you.
Running through a field of clover, Stop to pick a daffodil I play he loves me, loves me not, The daffy lies, it says he does not love me! Well, what use a daffy When Jimmy gives me roses? -- Flora Launa

29. Collected bits of string. Collected dolls with broken heads
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.

30. End 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.

31. A word within one line rhymes with a word in the same line.
“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,”

32. Internal Rhyme
A word within one line rhymes with a word in the same line.
“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,”

33. 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.
Activity: Rhyme Scheme group game

34. 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 34

35. What’s the 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.

36. The Rhyme Scheme Is… 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

37. What’s the Rhyme Scheme?
Who Has Seen the Wind?
By Christina Georgina Rossetti
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hand trembling,
The wind is passing through.

38. The Rhyme Scheme Is… Who Has Seen the Wind?
By Christina Georgina Rossetti
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you:
But when the leaves hand trembling,
The wind is passing through. a b c

39. What’s the Rhyme Scheme?
The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

40. The Rhyme Scheme Is… The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; a b

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