1. Poetry Vocabulary

2. Poetry is literature that uses a few words to tell about ideas, feelings and paints a picture in the reader’s mind. Most poems were written to be read aloud. Poems may or may not rhyme. POETRY

3. The form of a poem is the way that it looks on the page. FORM

4. Bad Hair Day I looked in the mirror with shock and with dread to discover two antlers had sprung from my head. WHAT A POEM LOOKS LIKE Rhyming words Stanza Line

5. The way that poets arrange words into lines. The lines may or may not be sentences. LINES

6. Groups of lines in traditional poetry, kind of like the paragraph of the poem. STANZAS What Bugs Me When my teacher tells me to write a poem. When my mother tells me to clean up my room. When my sister practices her violin while I’m watching TV. When my father tells me to turn off the TV and do my homework. When my brother picks a fight with me and I have to go to bed early. When my teacher asks me to get up in front of the class and read the poem I wrote on the school bus. Stanza

7. Poems that do not usually rhyme and have no fixed rhythm or pattern. They are written like a conversation. FREE VERSE

8. Sounds that are alike at the end of words, such as snow and crow. Middle, end, or near rhyme There are several types of rhyme. Here are a few: 1.End rhyme like “run and fun.” 2.Internal rhyme such as “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.” 3.Near Rhyme such as words that do not exactly rhyme such as “rose and lose.” RHYME

9. The Germ by Ogden Nash A mighty creature is the germ, Though smaller than the pachyderm. His customary dwelling place Is deep within the human race. His childish pride he often pleases By giving people strange diseases. Do you, my poppet, feel infirm? You probably contain a germ. SAMPLE RHYME SCHEME -A -B -C -A

10. ALLITERATION Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings or middle of words If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

11. ONOMATOPOEIA Words that imitate the sound they are naming BUZZ, BLIP, DRIP

12. The beat of the poem. These are made up patterns of strong and weak syllables. RHYTHM

13. The repeating of sounds, words, phrases, or lines in a poem. I like popcorn! I like candy! I like chips! I like ice cream! I need to brush my teeth! REPETITION

14. Words and phrases that help the reader picture things in a new way. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

15. Words or phrases that appeal to the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Imagery is what helps you paint a picture or imagine what is happening or what the poet is feeling. Example: The hamburgers sizzled on the grill…… IMAGERY

16. A comparison of two things using the words like or as. Her smile was bright like the sun!. My dog is as mean as a snake. SIMILE

17. A comparison of two things WITHOUT using “as or like” His face is a puzzle to me, I can never figure out what he is thinking. METAPHOR

18. Giving an animal or an object human qualities. My dog smiles at me. The house glowed with happiness. The car was irritated when she pumped it full of cheap gas. PERSONIFICATION

19. The attitude the poem conveys. A writer can be formal, informal, playful, ironic, and especially, optimistic or pessimistic, sad, scary, etc…. TONE

20. obvious and intentional exaggeration Example: There are a million people in here! I could sleep for a year! I have a ton of homework tonight! I’m so hungry I could eat a horse! HYPERBOLE

21. There is so much more to poetry....we have only scratched the surface..... NO WHERE NEAR THE END!!!