Poetry Ch 6 p. 402. rhythm The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Poetry

Ch 6 p. 402

rhythm

• The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables

• What is rhythm

Elegy- For My Grandmother

This lovely flower fell to seed; A

Work gently, sun and rain; B

She held it as her dying creed A

That she would grow again. B

• When it rhymes perfectly it is called

Exact rhyme

What gives poems a musical quality.

rhyme

• It gives a musical quality to a poem.

• Think Sam McGee ballad

exact rhyme/approximate rhyme

This lovely flower fell to seed; Work gently, sun and rain;

She held it as her dying creedThat she would grow again.

ABAB

What is it called when it does not rhyme perfectly as in a rhyme with

orange.

Approximate, slant, or near rhyme.

Approximate, near, slant rhyme

This lovely flower fell to seed;

Work gently, sun and rain;She held it as her dying creed

That she would grow again.Orange—door hinge

Porridge

What is the

• The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Heartbeat. Tu Tum

• Rhythm is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

meter

Couplet- 2 consecutive lines that rhyme

• The panther is like a leopard,

• Except it hasn’t been peppered.

• A

• A

• Rhyme scheme is always AA

• BB CC DD EE FF

Couplet

• The panther is

• like a leopard,• Except it hasn’t

• been peppered.

• A

• A

Internal rhyme- inside a line

“While I nodded nearly napping Suddenly there came a tappingAs of someone gently rapping, rapping at my

chamber door.”

• Assonance- the repetition of a vowel sound.

• There are strange things done in

the midnight sun

End rhyme

• End rhyme at the end of a line.

Free verse

• It does not rhyme, but it usually has rhythmic elements.

• Think Paul Revere’s Ride

Free verse

• Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full dazzling. (alliteration)

• Give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard

• Give me a field where the unmowed grass grows.

• Give me an arbor, give me the trellised grape

Refrain/repetition(chorus)

• Give me

• Give me…

alliteration

• The repetition of a consonant

• Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full dazzling.

• Green, grow, great, ground, grass, giving

• Brown, bark, big, bent, branches

assonance

• The repetition of a vowel sound

• Napping, tapping, rapping

• Tree, bee, see, harmony,

onomatopoeia

• Refers to the use of sound that imitates or suggests the meaning of a word

• Boom, burp, zing, • Crack, buzz, swoosh, whisper• Chirp• Rustle,• Sizzle• Hiss, boom, kaboom, bang, zap, roar,

Ballad-

• Narrative (old songs from Middle Ages in England)

• Songlike poem• Often sad, about betrayal, loss or death• Simple rhyme and words• Refrain• Steady rhythm or meter• Ex. “The Cremation of Sam McGee”

Epic

• Long, narrative poem

• Hero

• Elegant, formal language

• Ex. Beowulf, The Odyssey, The Iliad

Narrative Poem

• Tells a story

• Ex. The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

Lyric poem-emotional

• Expresses feelings; it does not tell a story

Ode

• An ode is a long, lyric poem that usually praises one thing written in dignified, serious, formal language.

sonnet

• A 14 line lyric poem

• A,

• b,

• a,

• b

• C

• ,d

Sonnet/rhyming couplets• Reminiscing• by Ralph Cortez

• Watermelons were so much sweeter then,• When boys were the stuff of super men,• And summers seemed so much longer too,• With nothing pending and nothing due.• We were swordsmen-swashbuckling heroes.• Eternal victors-never zeroes;• Second basemen and clean-up hitters;• Forever winners, never quitters• Play was a ritual in those days,• To go on magical mind forays,• To play the game with aplomb and ease,• To venture forth when and where we'd please.• We would feign death, and then rise up again.• Watermelons were so much sweeter then.

simile

A comparison using like or as

The tree is like a crooked, old man.

metaphor

• A direct comparison

• The crooked, old man tree

Personification

• Giving human traits to nonhuman things

• Ex.

• The tree’s hair fell to the ground.

Main idea of a poem?

• Main idea- underlying meaning

Think Like a TreeSoak up the sun

Affirm life's magicBe graceful in the windStand tall after a stormFeel refreshed after it

rainsGrow strong without

notice

Critical detail

• Essential, important information

• Date of birth and death

• Famous for

• (lifeguard story)

Direct quote vs. paraphrase

• Think Like a Tree

• “Soak up the sunAffirm life's magicBe graceful in the windStand tall after a stormFeel refreshed after it rainsGrow strong without notice”

• This is about learning a life lesson by following the example of a tree.

20 e.c. points due 5/2

• Google: California State Testing released questions. Click on 8th grade language arts.

• Or

• go to ccms.ccusd.org

• My homework site.