1 What is poetry? POETRY VOCABULARY Structure & Language End rhyme Repetition Alliteration Onomatopoeia Personification Assonance Consonance Simile Metaphor Stanza Types of Poetry Dream Poems If I were Poems Found Poems List Poems Alliteration Poem Ekphrasis poetry Free Verse http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072405228/student_view0/poetic_glossary.html What is Style? The way an author chooses words, arranges them in verse, and develops ideas and actions with description, imagery, and other literary techniques. Form vs. Content Voice – who is talking/whose perspective What is Imagery? Creating images in the mind for the reader – show don’t tell Examples: the imagery of light and darkness or morning and night to show happiness or sadness. Your turn What are Simile and Metaphor? Similes are comparisons that use “like” or “as.” Her eyes are as green as emeralds. Clouds soft and fluffy like marshmallows. Metaphors are comparisons that say one thing is another. My father’s anger is a volcano about to blow. What is Onomatopoeia? Onomatopoeia is the use of words that imitate sounds. Wham ! Splat ! Pow ! I am in trouble now!
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What is poetry? POETRY VOCABULARY
Structure & Language n End rhyme n Repetition n Alliteration n Onomatopoeia n Personification n Assonance n Consonance n Simile n Metaphor n Stanza
Types of Poetry n Dream Poems n If I were Poems n Found Poems n List Poems n Alliteration Poem n Ekphrasis poetry n Free Verse
How do I write a Found Poem from a car ride? n Take a pencil and notebook the next time you go
on a long car ride or are just walking down the street.
n Write down as many road signs as you can. n Pick out only those road signs that you can use to
tell a story of some sort. n To have the story make sense, the road signs have
to be arranged in exactly the right order.
How do I write a Found Poem with a newscast? n Watch an evening newscast. n Write down interesting lines that you hear. n Write down as many as you can in 10 minutes. n Pick out only those that you can use to tell a story
of some sort. n To have the story make sense, the lines have to be
arranged in exactly the right order.
How do I write a Found Poem with a newspaper or magazine? n Flip through a newspaper or magazine. n Cut out or write down interesting lines that
you see. n Pick out only those that you can use to tell
a story of some sort. n To have the story make sense, the lines
have to be arranged in exactly the right order.
What is Patterned Poetry? n Patterned poems
usually do not rhyme! n They follow a
specific pattern.
n Examples include haiku, cinquain, acrostic, initial, and concrete poetry.
If I were Poems If you were a shining star
And I were your midnight, I’d let you shine above me, You’d be my only light.
If you were a scoop of ice cream And I were an ice cream cone, I’d put you on my shoulders And hold you for my own.
If you were a grand piano And I were a sweet love song, I’d let your keys tickle and tease My melody all day long.
If you were the pages of my book And I were reading you, I’d read as slow as I could go So I never would get through.
If I were Poems n The If-You-Were and If-I-Were Poems consist of
4 lines (quatrain) and 2 rhymes (lines 2 & 4). Each poem contains 2 comparisons (metaphor), one for the “I” of the poem and one for the “you.”
n Instructions: Think of a person you like. Compare that person to some thing (inanimate object). Now compare yourself to some thing associated with the first object.
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What is Repetition? n Repetition is used to make an impact on the
poem’s tone. Words or phrases are repeated throughout the poem.
Here comes summer, Here comes summer,
Chirping robin, budding rose. Here comes summer, Here comes summer,
Gentle showers, summer clothes. By Shel Silverstein
What is Alliteration? n Alliteration uses the same beginning word
sounds over and over, like a tongue twister.
My beautiful bubbles burst and then, I simply blow some more again. The setting sun slipped slowly down, Making room for the milky moon.
Alliteration Poems An alliteration poem uses sound to create a special effect. To create an alliteration poem, n choose words that begin with the same sound n Try writing three lines of poetry with alliteration in each
line. n The trick is to make all the words start with the same
sound.
Terrible, taunting Tom Took the test
Two times two.
What is Consonance? n a poetic device characterized by the
repetition of the same consonant two or more times in short succession.
As in "pitter patter" or in "all mammals
named Sam are clammy"
What is Assonance? n The repetition of similar vowel sounds
in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.
"I rose and told him of my woe." Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" contains assonantal "I's" in the following lines: "How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, / Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself."
WHAT IS RHYME? n Rhyme is used in
many poems. Using words that sound alike makes poetry fun to read and write.
n Examples: drink & stink world & hurled
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What is Stanza? n In poetry, a stanza is a grouped set of
lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line or different indentation.
What is verse? n writing arranged with a metrical rhythm,
typically having a rhyme
List Poems In a list poem the first line is the title and consists of a word or phrase
stating the main idea. Then there are several short statements that tell the author’s feelings about the main idea.
What makes me happy Reaching my goals,
Making others smile, Being accepted for who and what I am, Ice cream sundaes
on a hot summer day, Having others call me friend.
What is an Ekphrasis Poem? n A poem based on a picture or work of art. Mary Jo Bang described her own approach to ekphrastic
poems: "I am taking an existing work of art and rewriting over it. I'm imposing a new narrative on it, one that is partially suggested by the artwork itself and partially by something that comes from within. Sometimes that thing is an autobiographical moment, sometimes it's a larger concern, social or political or intellectual." - See more at: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20581#sthash.a8j9lVED.dpuf
How do I write an Ekphrasis Poem? n Write a poem in three stanzas that is based on an
image or work of art. n In the first stanza, focus solely on description. n In the following stanzas, take your own approach:
n you can continue to describe, n impose a narrative on the scene, n reveal something about yourself or the artist. n represent all of the senses in your description.