1. Poetry

2. Poetry
Poems are usually divided into lines and then grouped into stanzas, or verses

3. Figurative Language

4. Metaphors Definition: Describe one thing as if it were something else.
Example:
The house was a zoo this morning!

5. Personification Definition: Gives human qualities to something else
Example:
The cars growled in the traffic

6. Similes
Definition
Use like or as to compare two apparently unlike things.
Example
He stormed into the meeting like a tornado

7. Symbol Definition A symbol is anything that represents something else.
Example
A dove is a common symbol for peace

8. Sound Devices

9. Sound Devices
Sound Devices enhance a poem’s mood and meaning

10. Alliteration Definition:
The repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of the word
Example:
Slippery Slope

11. Repetition Definition
The use of any element of language – a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence – more than once

12. Assonance
Definition
The repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in stressed syllables
Example:
Blade and maze

13. Consonance Definition
The repetition of similar consonant sounds at the ends of accented syllables
Example
Wind and sand

14. Onomatopoeia Definition: The use of words that imitate sounds.
Example:
Crash, bang, hiss

15. Rhyme Definition: Repetition of sounds at the end of words Example
Speech and teach

16. Meter
Meter is the rhythmical pattern in a poem

17. Forms of Poetry

18. Narrative Narrative poetry tells a story in verse.
Narrative poems often have elements similar to those in short stories, such as plot and characters

19. Haiku Haiku is a three-line Japanese verse form
The first and third lines each have five syllables and the second line has seven

20. Lyric
Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in highly musical verse

21. Ballads
Ballads are songlike poems that tell a story, often dealing with adventure and romance

22. Concrete Concrete poems are shaped to look like their subjects.
The poet arranges the lines to create a picture on the page.

23. Limericks
Limericks are humorous, rhyming, five-line poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme

24. Rhyming Couplets
Rhyming couplets are pairs of rhyming lines, usually of the same meter and length

25. Poetry Collection #1
The Rider
Seal
Haiku

26. Reading Skill Drawing Conclusions
Drawing Conclusions means arriving at an overall judgment or idea by pulling together several details.
By drawing conclusions you recognize meanings that are not directly stated.

27. Drawing Conclusions
Asking questions like the following can help you identify details and make connections that lead to a conclusion
What details does the writer include and emphasize?
How are the details related?
What do the details mean all together?

28. Literary Analysis Forms of Poetry Lyric Concrete Poem Haiku
– expresses the poet’s thoughts and feelings about a single image or idea in vivid, musical language
Concrete Poem
The poet arranges the letters and lines to create a visual image that suggests the poem’s subject
Haiku
A traditional form of Japanese poetry that is often about nature. The first line always has five syllables, the second line has seven syllables, and the third line has five syllables.