Slide 1 Slide 2 An Introduction to Poetry Learning to read poetry well and to savor its pleasures involves learning to ask questions about how we experience poems, how we…

1.POEMS FOR MY MOMBy Allison Moyer2. DEDICATED TO: MY MOTHER, LISA MOYERThis collection of poems is dedicated to my mom,Lisa Moyer, in the hopes that its poems will inspire,be…

1.The Wonderful World of Poetry …2. What is 3. Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to…

1. A play on words 2. POETRY VOCABULARYEnd rhymeRepetitionAlliteration OnomatopoeiaSimileMetaphorFree Verse 3. RHYME• Rhyme is used in manypoems.• Using words that soundalike…

Slide 1Who’s afraid of the big, bad STAAR? NOT US! Slide 2 Test Blueprint 4 reading selections 4 editing/revising passages 63 multiple choice questions (35 reading, 28…

Slide 1 King Billy Edwin Morgan Slide 2 Group Task  Who was Billy Fullerton?  What is sectarianism?  What is a “Billy Boy”?  In your groups answer the questions…

Slide 1 Slide 2 LIMBO Slide 3 Assonance is the use of repeated vowel sounds to create a sound picture. The sounds may be repeated at the start or (rarely) the end of each…

Slide 1 Lecture 1 The Anglo-Saxon Period(1st hour), Beowulf Part I Introduction to the appreciation of Poetry Slide 2 1. Types of poetry Narrative poetry Lyric poetry Slide…

POETRY Elements of Poetry Sound Devices Rhyme Rhythm Repetition Alliteration Onomatopoeia RHYME Rhyme is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words, such as drink &…

POETRY Itâs rhyme time! Poems can be... Free Verse Rhyming Free Verse Poems... Do not rhyme Do not have a pattern Do not have a rhythm Do not have a structure Rhyming Poems...…