1. What you need to know about poetry.

2.  Alalalalalaliteration  Repeating the sound sound within a line of poetry.  EX: She swam swiftly along the shoreline in search of serenity.  EX: from The Raven “Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;”

3.  When an object, person, etc. stands for something greater than itself.  EX: Flag symbolizes FREEDOM  EX: White symbolizes PURITY  What symbols can you thing of in pop culture?

4.  The pattern of rhyme at the end of each line of poetry.  As I stepped up to the plate (A)  I was nervous about swing. (B)  I eyed the pitcher as he threw, (C)  And heard the ball go ding. (A)  Each letter represents a word and it rhyme!

5.  Many poems reference something else from pop culture, history, famous people, events, mythology, the bible, etc. These references are called ALLUSIONS!!  EX: “She was Aphrodite when she smiled; I was helpless in her beauty.”  This quote gives ALLUSION to the Greek Goddess, Aphrodite.

6.  End Rhyme: When the last word rhymes with other words at the end of a line.  Approximate Rhyme: When a word kinda rhymes, but not exactly. They have the same sound, but not exactly rhyming.  Internal rhyme: When two words rhyme within a line of poetry. Ex: “But the fact is, I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,”

7.  Free Verse- No rhyme scheme. Just thought and feelings put to paper.  Haiku- A 3 line poem about nature. The 1 st line has 5 syllables; 2 nd has 7 syllables; 3 rd has 5 syllables.  EX: The leaves are dying  With colors alive and bright  Heaven in the fall.  Concrete: when a poem takes on the shape of its subject matter.

8.  Giving non-human things human characteristics.

9.  A paragraph of poetry.  Couplet- two stanzas  Triplet- 3 stanzas

10.  The line(s) that are repeated in poetry.  Think of the refrain as like the chorus in a song. It is repeated throughout the poem.

11.  Saying that something “IS” Something else.  Ex: “The job was the pot of gold at the end of my rainbow.”  EX: “I was tossed and turned around in the sea called life.”