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1 Good Morning!  Please grab both worksheets on your way and write down your homework.  Have quick write journals & vocab books

2 Poetry  Language written in lines with strong rhythm and images  Example: Any poem you know…

3 Stanza  A group of lines in a poem that fit together. _____________

4 Narrative Poem  A poem that tells a story  Example: “Casey at the Bat”

5 Lyric Poem  A shorter poem that has strong imagery and shows a particular feeling or thought.  Example: “The Road Not Taken”

6 Elegy  A mournful poem usually focusing on the death of someone famous or close to the writer.  Example: “O Captain, My Captain” by Whitman about Lincoln

7 Literal Language  The actual, dictionary meaning of a word; language that means what it appears to mean

8 Figurative Language  Language used in a special way to create a special effect  Example: “Put your heads together”

9 Simile  A comparison between two unlike things using like or as.  Example: “his hoofbeats were like miniature thunder”

10 Metaphor  A comparison between two unlike things  Example: “Morning is a new sheet of paper to write on”

11 Hyperbole  Extreme Exaggeration for effect  Example: “I have thousands of errands to do.”

12 Personification  Giving human traits to inanimate objects, animals, or feelings.  Example: “The sun smiled on the happy walkers”

13 Good Morning!  Please take out your homework and open up to your poetry term glossary.

14 Oxymoron  Literary technique in which two contradictory words come together for a special effect  Example: “Jumbo shrimp”

15 SOUNDS OF POETRY

16 Rhyme  Words have the same end sound  Example: hat and cat

17 Internal Rhyme: Rhyme within a line of poetry –Example: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary”

18 Rhyme Scheme  The pattern of rhyme in a poem. –Example: next slide…

19 Example… –ABCB in : “It doesn’t breathe It doesn’t smell It doesn’t feel So very well.”

20 Rhythm  The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables; the beat  Example: “I wandered lonely as a cloud”

21 Onomatopoeia  The sound of a word matches its meaning  Example: “snap, crackle, pop”

22 Alliteration  Repetition of the same consonant sound or letter at the beginning of words close together.  Example: “Sickly Silence”

23 Repetition  The same words or lines repeated for emphasis  Example: “And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep”

24 Refrain  The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals, especially at the end of each stanza  (chorus of any song)

25 Symbol  Concrete or real object used to represent an idea  Example: Bird = Freedom

26 Good Afternoon!  Please take out your vocabulary book and open up to page 117.  Please separate your desks in order to get ready from the quiz.

27 On the back of your quiz, please write the following three headings:  p. 120  # _______________  p.121  # _________________  p. 123  # _________________

28 Please take out your term glossary to finish up our terms.

29 Mood  The feeling the reader gets from a piece of writing; atmosphere  Example: happy, eerie, gloomy

30 Tone  Author’s attitude toward the subject  Example: serious, sarcastic

31 Allusion  A reference to a familiar person, place, thing, or event.  Example: America, Land of opportunity

32 Your task:  Write a poem where you have one of the following: –Mood –Tone –Allusion… –GOOD LUCK!

33 Tone, mood, allusion??? The dreary, dark demon haunted us today, His eyes pierced me with an evil gaze, The smoke filled tunnel was his lair, Where no one left without a dare…


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