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1 POETRY English 9

2 How to analyze a poem Look at the title and determine it’s connection to the poem. Is it related to the theme or message of the poem? Read the poem several times quietly to yourself. Underline words you do not understand. Look them up and try to figure out why it is used.

3 How to analyze a poem Identify examples of metaphors, smilies and personification. Identify examples of imagery. Identify the type of poem.

4 How to analyze a poem Identify and explain the message and or purpose of the poem. Who is the speaker in the poem?

5 TYPES OF POETRY

6 Ballad a poem that tells a story and often has a repeated refrain.

7 Free verse Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern or expectation.

8 Lyric A poem, such as a sonnet or an ode that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. The term lyric is now generally referred to as the words to a song.

9 Rhyme A rhyme has a repetition of the same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words most often at the ends of lines. End Internal Triple Rhyme scheme abab, abba, etc.

10 Sonnet English (Shakespearean) sonnets are lyric poems that are 14 lines long falling into 3 coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet.

11 Acrostic A word, phrase or passage spelled out vertically by the first letters of a group of lines in sequence.

12 Didactic verse Poems that exist so as to teach the readers something, often a moral.

13 Figures of Speech

14 Figures of Speech Hyperbole-exaggeration.
Metaphor- a direct comparison of 2 unlike objects or persons without using like or as. Simile- a comparison of 2 unlike objects or persons using like or as. Personification- giving human characteristics to things or non human creatures.

15 Figures of Speech Tone-the poet’s attitude to the poem’s subject.
Alliteration-repetition of consonants-c, r, s, d, t… Onomatopoeia-noises such as meow, tick tock, boom Imagery-visual, auditory, olfactory(smell), gustatory(taste), tactile(touch).


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