2. What is Poetry?  POETRY IS THE WORD USED TO DESCRIBE AN AUTHOR’S VERBAL EXPRESSION OF IDEAS THAT IS ORGANIZED IN A PATTERN AND EXPLAINED IN AN IMAGINATIVE AND UNIQUE WAY.

3.  POETRY IS NOT JUST FOUND IN BOOKS, BUT IT IS AROUND US EVERY DAY! IT IS USED IN ADVERTISING, ENTERTAINMENT, COMMUNICATION, AND CASUAL CONVERSATION.

4.  TAKE A CHANCE TO LOOK AROUND AND SEE WHERE YOU CAN FIND POETRY USED OTHER THAN IN A BOOK OR IN YOUR ENGLISH CLASSROOM.  NOW LIST 5 EXAMPLES OF POETRY FOUND IN EVERYDAY LIFE.

5. Poetry  THE WORD USED TO DESCRIBE AN AUTHOR’S VERBAL EXPRESSIONS OF IDEAS THAT IS ORGANIZED IN A PATTERN AND EXPLAINED IN AN IMAGINITIVE AND UNIQUE WAY

6. Prose  THE ORDINARY FORM OF WRITTEN LANGUAGE; ORGANIZED IN SENTENCES WITH NO SPECIFIC FORM

7.  IN-CLASS ACTIVITY   Listen as Ms. Smyers reads the following selections of literature. Your job is to determine whether the pieces you hear are examples of PROSE or POETRY. Write your choice (PROSE or POETRY) on each line that corresponds with the matching selection.

8. Answers: 1. POEM 2. PROSE 3. POEM 4. PROSE 5. POEM 6. POEM 7. PROSE 8. PROSE 9. PROSE 10. POEM

9. TRUE OR PERFECT RHYME  IDENTICAL SOUNDING SYLLABLES  EXAMPLES: FUN AND RUN, CRY AND TRY, REMEMBER AND DECEMBER

10. HALF OR SLANT RHYME  SIMILAR SOUNDING SYLLABLES  EXAMPLES: RAIN AND AGAIN, SUPPER AND BUTTER, TROUBLE AND STUMBLE

11. Rhyme Scheme  RHYME SCHEME IS THE PATTERN FORMED BY THE RHYMING SYLLABLES AT THE ENDS OF LINES OF POETRY.

12. **REMEMBER**  You are matching up words that rhyme with each other to identify the pattern that is formed by the last words in each line of a poem.  Label at the END of each line  Label using LOWER case letters

13. Mark the Poem/Homework  Read the poem and label rhyme scheme for “Hope is a thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson  Homework: read and label the rhyme scheme of the two poems

14. Narrative Poetry  Narrative poetry is written in order to tell a STORY.

15. Narrative Poetry  Narrative poems can be about TRUE OR FICTIONAL PEOPLE OR EVENTS  Many narrative poems are about HEROES or HISTORICAL EVENTS.

16. Ballad  A NARRATIVE POEM THAT INCLUDES A REFRAIN, OR A PART/PHRASE THAT IS REPEATED

17. Epic  A LONG NARRATIVE POEM ABOUT THE DEEDS OF GODS OR HEROES

18. Mark the Poem/Homework  Read and label the rhyme scheme for “Casey at the Bat”  Complete the Homework for the poem

19. “Casey at the Bat”  http://www.disneymovieslist.com/ cartoons/casey-bat.asp http://www.disneymovieslist.com/ cartoons/casey-bat.asp

20. Lyric Poetry  Lyric poetry is written to express the EMOTIONS OF THE AUTHOR.

21. Lyric Poetry  Lyrical poems usually capture the poet’s feeling towards a specific PERSON, OBJECT, EVENT, or MOMENT IN TIME.

22. Lyric Poetry  The words of lyric poetry often follow a rhythm similar to that of a SONG.

23. Ode  USUALLY A MORE SERIOUS POEM THAT MAKES YOU THINK; VERY FORMAL

24. Psalm  FOUND IN THE BIBLE AND ARE TYPICALLY DESIGNED TO BE READ ALOUD BY A PERSON OR GROUP OF PEOPLE

25. Elegy  A POEM THAT REMEMBERS AND EXPRESSES GRIEF FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS PASSED AWAY

26. Mark the Poem  Read the poems and label rhyme schemes for “Uphill” and “Piano”

27. Figurative Language  Figurative language is LANGUAGE THAT IS NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY.

28. Figurative Language  Figurative language allows authors to SAY ONE THING WHEN THEY REALLY MEAN ANOTHER.

29. Figurative Language  By using figurative language, an author has many possibilities for EXPRESSING ONE SINGLE IDEA.

30. Figurative Language  Figurative language can be used in PROSE, but it is found most often in POETRY.

31. Hyperbole  AN INTENDED EXAGGERATION

32. Oxymoron  AN EXPRESSION THAT USES WORDS THAT CONTRADICT ONE ANOTHER

33. Comparisons - Simile  A COMPARISON THAT USES LIKE OR AS

34. Comparisons - Metaphor  A COMPARISON THAT USES A DIRECT STATEMENT

35. Mark the Poem  Read the poems and label rhyme schemes for “Dream Deferred”, “Dreams”, and “The Eagle”  Underline any similes and metaphors in the poems

36. Personification  Personification is GIVING HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS TO A NONHUMAN OBJECT

37. Personification  Poets often describe INANIMATE OBJECTS or elements of NATURE as behaving like HUMAN BEINGS.

38. Create Your Own/Mark the Poem  Create your own examples of personification  Read and label the rhyme scheme for “The Wind” and “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”  Underline any examples of personification in the poems

39. Sounds  Poetry is often read OUT LOUD. Because of this, WRITERS often choose words that have a certain EFFECT when HEARD with the EAR as well as SEEN with the EYE.

40. Alliteration  THE REPETITION OF INITIAL CONSONANT SOUNDS  Examples: SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS BY THE SEA SHORE PETER PIPER PICKED A PECK OF PICKLED PEPPERS

41. Onomatopoeia  A WORD THAT SOUNDS LIKE THE NOISE IT REPRESENTS  Examples: BUZZ, PLOP, HISS

42. Mark the Poem  Read and label the rhyme scheme for “Jabberwocky”  Circle 5 nonsense words that Carroll has created and label their part of speech.

43. Drawing  Based on the description you read in the poem, draw a picture of what you think the Jabberwocky looks like.  Be sure to use color in your drawing; feel free to use markers and colored pencils to do so.

45. “ Jabberwocky ”  http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=nm9o6DH_uzE http://www.youtube.com/wa tch?v=nm9o6DH_uzE

46. Sonnet  A sonnet is a poem consisting of FOURTEEN lines of RHYMING poetry. There are TWO types of sonnets and each has a PARTICULAR rhyme scheme.

47. Types of Sonnets  English: Also called a SHAKESPEAREAN Sonnet  Usually follows the rhyme scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

48. Types of Sonnets  Italian: Also called a PETRARCHAN Sonnet  Usually follows the rhyme scheme ABBA ABBA CDE CDE

49. Mark the Poem  Read and label the rhyme scheme for the three sonnets in the packet  Label them as either English/Shakespearean or Italian/Petrarchan sonnets

50. Haiku  This is a STYLE of JAPANESE poetry.  A haiku consists of THREE lines of VERSE.  The FIRST and THIRD lines each have FIVE syllables.

51. Haiku  The MIDDLE line has SEVEN syllables.  The topic of a haiku is usually a PRECISE detail or MOMENT of NATURE or EMOTION.

52. Create Your Own  Write two haiku in your packet in the space provided.  Be sure to focus on an aspect of nature and stick to the syllable pattern!

53. Limerick  This style of poetry consists of FIVE lines of VERSE.  The FIRST, SECOND, and FIFTH lines rhyme and consist of EIGHT syllables.

54. Limerick  The THIRD and FOURTH lines rhyme and consist of FIVE syllables.  These poems are usually intended to be HUMOROUS.

55.  Syllable pattern is 88558  Rhyme scheme is aabba

56. Create Your Own  Write two limericks in your packet in the space provided.  Be sure to make them humorous and stick to the syllable pattern!

57. Take a Look  As we have studied thus far, an author’s choice of words, sounds, and use of figurative language and comparisons impacts the meaning and power of the poem.  For example, two authors can write a poem about the same general topic but create very different poems.

58. Take a Look  Read the poems “Fire and Ice” and “There Will Come Soft Rains”  Mark the rhyme scheme for the poems  Complete the journal entry as directed