POETRYPOETRY

It’s rhyme time!

POETRY VOCABULARYPOETRY VOCABULARY

• End rhyme• Rhythm• Repetition• Alliteration• Onomatopoeia• Simile• Metaphor• Free Verse• Assonance• Consonance• Personification

RHYMERHYME

• Rhyme is used in many poems. Using words that sound alike makes poetry fun to read and write.

• Examples:– drink & stink

– world & hurled

RhythmRhythm

A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.

Hiawatha's Departurefrom The Song of Hiawatha

byHenry Wadsworth Longfellow

By the shore of Gitchie Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam,

In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.

RepetitionRepetition

Repetition of a sound, syllable, word, phrase, line, stanza, or metrical pattern for effect / emotion.•Here comes summer,

•Here comes summer,

•Chirping robin, budding rose.

•Here comes summer,

•Here comes summer,

•Gentle showers, summer clothes.

•By Shel Silverstein

Alliteration

the repetition of beginning consonant sounds within a phrase or sentence.•My beautiful bubbles burst and then,•I simply blow some more again.

•The setting sun slipped slowly down,•Making room for the milky moon.

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.

Free VerseFree Verse

• Free verse is poetry that has neither a particular beat or rhyme pattern. It usually does have rhythm, however.Fog by Carl Sandburg

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

OnomatopoeiaOnomatopoeia

• Onomatopoeia is the use of words that imitate sounds.

• Wham! Splat! Pow! I am in trouble now!

PersonificationPersonification

is giving inanimate (non-human) objects, animals or emotions human characteristics. For example, Rikki Tikki Tavi, etc.

Assonance is rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words. For example, time and light or mystery and mastery.

Consonance is the repetition of final consonant sounds of accented syllables or important words. For example:Ralegh has backed the maid to a treeAs Ireland is backed to England

And drives inlandTill all her strands are breathless.

Patterned PoetryPatterned Poetry

• Patterned poems usually do not rhyme!

• They follow a specific pattern.

• Examples include haiku, cinquain, acrostic, and concrete poetry.

A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five.

Nature

An afternoon breeze

expels cold air, along with

the fallen brown leaves.

Humor

The flightless bird hops

Waddle waddle waddle flop

And down it tumbles

HaikuHaiku

CinquainCinquain

A short poem consisting of five lines, usually unrhymed, containing two, four, six, eight, and two syllables. (Any stanza of five lines.)

apple

red, delicious

crunching, chewing, eating

my favorite snack, juicy red

apple

AcrosticAcrostic

A poem in which a series of written lines or verses where the first, last, or other particular letters form a word, phrase, etc.

Libraries I used to think offered a very out of dateInsight into life offering nothing but dusty shelvesBut as I began to grow a little older I have started toRealise times have totally moved on and theirApproach has stepped away from the straight academiaReflecting all the many changes in society but makingYou now wish people didn't take them for granted. 

ConcreteConcrete

A concrete poem is a poem whose meaning is conveyed through its graphic shape or pattern on the printed page.

Other Forms of PoetryOther Forms of Poetry

• Narrative poetry is based on storytelling (the oral tradition) and always has a plot.

• Lyric poetry expresses personal and emotional feelings. It is usually short and song-like. – Sonnet – 14 lines divided into 3 quatrains– Ode – a long, serious poem, often a tribute to a

person, place, thing, or sentiment