1. Poetry

2. What is poetry? Poetry is a type of writing
Uses words
Intense focus on expression of feelings or ideas
Not just feelings
Uses distinctive rhythm or style
Sounds of words, syllables, emphasis

3. Key Terms Writer – person that wrote the poem
Speaker – “narrator” of the poem
Line – one line of poetry
Stanza – “paragraph” of poem

4. Patterns Rhythm – the pattern of emphasis on the words
Rhyme – repeated end sounds of words
Alliteration – repeated beginning sound of word
Consonance – repeated consonant sound in words
Assonance – repeated vowel sound in words

5. Figurative Language
Allusion
Simile
Metaphor
Personification

6. Humans are Rhythmic
What are some patterns that we go through as human beings?
As creatures of the earth?
What patterns do we see in ourselves and nature?

7. Rhythm and Meter Like in music: pattern of emphasis
Breaking it down further
Poem
Line
Word
Syllable
Two types

8. Don’t get over STRESSED
Stressed and unstressed syllables
When looking at poetry analysis, it looks like this

9. What does it do? Some poetry is categorized by its rhythm pattern
Different kinds of rhythmic units or FEET

10. Some examples
da DUM da da DUM da da DUM da DUM da da DUM da da DUM da DUM da da DUM da DUM da da DUM da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were caught, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee."
"Let us fly," said the flea
So they flew through a flaw in the flue
-Anonymous

11. A flea and a fly in a flue
Were caught, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee."
"Let us fly," said the flea
So they flew through a flaw in the flue