1. Poetry Terms

2. How do the elements of sound in a poem add to its appeal?
Repetition
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia

3. Repetition The repeated use of words, phrases, or lines in poetry.
Poets use repetition to create a sound or to emphasize a point.
“The highway man came riding, riding, riding, up to the old inn door.”

4. Alliteration The repetition of beginning consonant sounds.
The big, blue basketball bounced down the boulevard.

5. Onomatopoeia
A word which imitates a sound.
Buzz!
Zoom!
Zip!

6. How do poets create structure in their poems?
Rhyme
Rhyme scheme
rhythm

7. Rhyme
The repetition of the same or similar sounds in words appearing near each other.
The rain in Spain flows mainly on the plain.

8. Rhyme Scheme The pattern of rhyme in a poem.
My love is like a red, red rose A
That’s newly sprung in June; B
My love is like a melody C
That’s sweetly sung in tune. B

9. Rhythm
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry. The beat of the poem.
Example:
Then I saw the Congo
Creeping through the black;
Cutting through the jungle with a golden track
To the tune of Boom a lay, Boom a lay, Boom!

10. Why would poets use figurative language in their poetry?
Imagery
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Hyperbole

11. Imagery Language which appeals to the senses. So much depends upon
a red wheelbarrow
Glazed with rainwater
Beside the white chickens
William Carlos Williams

12. Simile A comparison using the words like or as As mean as a snake
Shiny like a new penny
As happy as a clown.

13. Metaphor A comparison which says something is something else.
His hands were ice cubes.
He was a giant.
His cheeks were roses.

14. Personification Giving human traits to something that is not human.
Sunshine kissed her cheek.
The slopes greeted the skiers.

15. Hyperbole
A figure of speech in which statements are exaggerated. Hyperbole is a type of figurative language that depends on intentional overstatement.
Glenda’s chicken lays so many eggs that she sits on a ten foot pyramid of neatly stacked white eggs each day.

16. Free Verse No pattern of rhyme or rhythm No rules about line length
Try to keep words that belong together on the same line, but sometimes break them to create a visual shape.

17. Concrete Poems

18. Lyric Poetry
Poetry which is a brief, musical expression of the poet’s thoughts and feelings.
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

19. Narrative Poetry Poetry that tells a story
Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year.