Poetry
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Poetry
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Characteristics of Poetry Poems are usually
divided into lines and then grouped into stanzas
Figurative language states ideas in new, creative ways
Sound devices enhance mood
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Figurative Language Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Symbol
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Metaphor Describes one thing
saying it is something else as in:
The house was a zoo this morning!
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Personification Gives human
qualities to something that is not human, as in:
The cars growled in the traffic.
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Simile To use the words
like or as to compare two seemingly unlike things, as in:
He stormed into the meeting like a tornado.
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Symbol A symbol is
anything that represents something else, as in:
A dove is a common symbol for peace.
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Sound Devices Alliteration is the
repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words, as in:
Copying homework begins the swift, slippery slope to academic dishonesty.
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Repetition The use of any
element of language—a sound, a word, phrase, clause, or sentence—more than once, as in:
Mary had a little lamb, little lamb, little lamb.
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Assonance The repetition of
vowel sounds followed by different consonants in stressed syllables, as in:
Try to light the fire.
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Consonance The repetition of
similar consonant sounds at the ends of accented syllables, as in:
I will stand on the beach in the wind and the sand.
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Onomatopoeia The use of words
that imitate sounds, as in:
There was a loud crash as the baseball shattered the window.
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Rhyme The repetition of
sounds at the ends of words, as in:
Winning the crownwill eliminate your frown!
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Meter The rhythmic pattern
in a poem, as in:
Twinkle, twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
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Forms of Poetry Narrative Haiku Free Verse Lyric Ballad Concrete Limerick Rhyming couplets
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Narrative Narrative poetry
tells a story. Narrative poems often have elements similar to those in short stories, such as plot and character.
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Haiku Haiku is three line
Japanese verse form. The first and third lines have five syllables, and the second line has seven syllables.
Usually nature-themed.
O, foolish ducklings,
you know my old green pond is
watched by a weasel!
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Free Verse Free verse poetry
is defined by its lack of strict structure.
It has no regular meter, rhyme, fixed line length, or specific stanza pattern.
once a snowflake fellon my brow and i lovedit so much and i kissedit and it was happy and called
its cousinsand brothers and a webof snow engulfed me theni reached to love them alland i squeezed them and
they becamea spring rain and i stood
perfectlystill and was a flower
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Lyrics and Ballads Lyric poetry
expresses thoughts and feelings
Ballads are songlike poems that tell a story, often dealing with romance and adventure
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Concrete Concrete poems are
shaped to look like their subjects. The poet arranges the lines of the poem to create a picture on the page
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Limericks Limericks are
humorous, rhyming, five-line poems with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme.
There once was a girl from Troy
She always tried to annoy
She looked like a moose
She laughed like a goose
She’s the kid we all should avoid!
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Rhyming Couplets Pairs of rhyming
lines, usually of the same meter and length
I cannot go to school today
Said little Peggy Ann McKay
I have the measles and the mumps
A gash, a rash, and purple bumps!
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