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Page 1: What is poetry? You tell me… Format Poetry is arranged in lines and stanzas Lines may or may not form a complete sentence Stanzas are a group of lines.
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What is poetry?

You tell me…

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Format

Poetry is arranged in lines and stanzas

Lines may or may not form a complete sentence

Stanzas are a group of lines forming a unit and separated from the next stanza by a line of space

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Figurative Language

Poems use figurative language– a word or expression that is not literally true but expresses a point

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Types of Figurative Language

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Imagery

Alliteration

Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

Idioms

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Rhyme and Rhythm

The term rhyme scheme refers to the rhyming pattern of a poem

Each end sound is assigned its own letter

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Example

Roses are red a

Violets are blue b

Sugar is sweet c

So are you b

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Example

Twinkle twinkle little star a

How I wonder what you are a

Up above the world so high b

Like a diamond in the sky b

Twinkle, twinkle little star a

How I wonder what you are a

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Free Verse

Poetry without a fixed pattern of rhyme or rhythm

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Tone

An author’s attitude towards his/her subject matter

Shown through word choice, figurative language, etc.

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Mood

The emotional quality that a reader feels based on an author’s tone

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Any Questions???