1. Poetry

2. What do you know about poetry?
For 1 minute, write down every word your group can think of associated with poetry.
It can be anything—how you feel about it, how it’s written, how it’s read, etc.

3. Why is poetry important?
For 1 minute, brainstorm reasons why poetry is important.

4. Poetic Devices
Turn to a clean sheet of paper in the reading section of your notebook. You will have a quiz on poetic devices on Friday in place of your regular vocab. Quiz.

5. Rhyme and rhyme scheme
Rhyme: words that have same sound and are used in a poem to help create rhythm
The cat in the hat.
Rhyme scheme: the pattern of rhyming in a poem

6. repetition
The repeating of words, phrases, or lines in a poem used to create effect

7. alliteration The repetition of consonant sounds in a line of poetry
Example: Sally sold seashells by the seashore.

8. assonance The repetition of vowel sounds
Example: The ocean rolled over the shore.

9. similes A comparison between two unlike things using like or as.
Her eyes were as bright as diamonds.

10. metaphors
A comparison of two unlike objects without using the words like or as.
Her eyes were two bright diamonds sparkling brightly.

11. personification Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
The wind howled all night.
The sun beat the dry, cracked ground.

12. idioms A common phrase used to prove a point
The meaning is never literal.
Examples:
It’s raining cats and dogs.
She’s green with envy.
I’m so hungry that I could eat a horse.

13. Onomatopoeia
Words spelled to sound like the noises they imitate.

14. hyperbole Extreme exaggeration Examples: A thousand times good night…
If I can’t get the new game, I will die.
I had a ton of homework last night.

15. symbolism A word used to represent something else
Examples: the color red is sometimes used to represent love or hatred.
A black bird is used to foreshadow a death or bad luck.
A sunrise can represent a new start.

16. allusion
reference to a statement, person, place, event, or thing that is known from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, science, or popular culture.
Examples: The Simpsons, Family Guy, and South Park all have lots of allusions.