POETRY UNIT A short piece of imaginative writing, of a personal nature and laid out in lines.
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POETRY TERMS AND
DEFINITIONS
What is Poetry?
POETRY IS THE WORD USED TO DESCRIBE AN AUTHOR’S VERBAL EXPRESSION OF IDEAS THAT IS ORGANIZED IN A PATTERN AND EXPLAINED IN AN IMAGINATIVE AND UNIQUE WAY.
POETRY IS NOT JUST FOUND IN BOOKS, BUT IT IS AROUND US EVERY DAY! IT IS USED IN ADVERTISING, ENTERTAINMENT, COMMUNICATION, AND CASUAL CONVERSATION.
TAKE A CHANCE TO LOOK AROUND AND SEE WHERE YOU CAN FIND POETRY USED OTHER THAN IN A BOOK OR IN YOUR ENGLISH CLASSROOM.
NOW LIST 5 EXAMPLES OF POETRY FOUND IN EVERYDAY LIFE.
Poetry THE WORD USED TO
DESCRIBE AN AUTHOR’S VERBAL EXPRESSIONS OF IDEAS THAT IS ORGANIZED IN A PATTERN AND EXPLAINED IN AN IMAGINITIVE AND UNIQUE WAY
Prose THE ORDINARY
FORM OF WRITTEN LANGUAGE; ORGANIZED IN SENTENCES WITH NO SPECIFIC FORM
IN-CLASS ACTIVITY
Listen as Ms. Smyers reads the following selections of literature. Your job is to determine whether the pieces you hear are examples of PROSE or POETRY. Write your choice (PROSE or POETRY) on each line that corresponds with the matching selection.
Answers:1. POEM
2. PROSE
3. POEM
4. PROSE
5. POEM
6. POEM
7. PROSE
8. PROSE
9. PROSE
10.POEM
TRUE OR PERFECT RHYME
IDENTICAL SOUNDING SYLLABLES
EXAMPLES: FUN AND RUN, CRY AND TRY, REMEMBER AND DECEMBER
HALF OR SLANT RHYME
SIMILAR SOUNDING SYLLABLES
EXAMPLES: RAIN AND AGAIN, SUPPER AND BUTTER, TROUBLE AND STUMBLE
Rhyme Scheme RHYME SCHEME IS
THE PATTERN FORMED BY THE RHYMING SYLLABLES AT THE ENDS OF LINES OF POETRY.
**REMEMBER** You are matching up words
that rhyme with each other to identify the pattern that is formed by the last words in each line of a poem.
Label at the END of each line Label using LOWER case
letters
Mark the Poem/Homework Read the poem and label
rhyme scheme for “Hope is a thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson
Homework: read and label the rhyme scheme of the two poems
Narrative Poetry Narrative poetry is written in order to tell a STORY.
Narrative Poetry Narrative poems can be
about TRUE OR FICTIONAL PEOPLE OR EVENTS
Many narrative poems are about HEROES or HISTORICAL EVENTS.
Ballad A NARRATIVE POEM
THAT INCLUDES A REFRAIN, OR A PART/PHRASE THAT IS REPEATED
Epic A LONG NARRATIVE
POEM ABOUT THE DEEDS OF GODS OR HEROES
Mark the Poem/Homework Read and label the rhyme
scheme for “Casey at the Bat”
Complete the Homework for the poem
“Casey at the Bat”
http://www.disneymovieslist.com/cartoons/casey-bat.asp
Lyric Poetry Lyric poetry is
written to express the EMOTIONS OF THE AUTHOR.
Lyric Poetry Lyrical poems usually
capture the poet’s feeling towards a specific PERSON, OBJECT, EVENT, or MOMENT IN TIME.
Lyric Poetry The words of lyric poetry often follow a rhythm similar to that of a SONG.
Ode USUALLY A MORE
SERIOUS POEM THAT MAKES YOU THINK; VERY FORMAL
Psalm FOUND IN THE BIBLE
AND ARE TYPICALLY DESIGNED TO BE READ ALOUD BY A PERSON OR GROUP OF PEOPLE
Elegy A POEM THAT
REMEMBERS AND EXPRESSES GRIEF FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS PASSED AWAY
Mark the Poem
Read the poems and label rhyme schemes for “Uphill” and “Piano”
Figurative Language Figurative language
is LANGUAGE THAT IS NOT MEANT TO BE TAKEN LITERALLY.
Figurative Language Figurative language
allows authors to SAY ONE THING WHEN THEY REALLY MEAN ANOTHER.
Figurative Language By using figurative
language, an author has many possibilities for EXPRESSING ONE SINGLE IDEA.
Figurative Language
Figurative language can be used in PROSE, but it is found most often in POETRY.
Hyperbole
AN INTENDED EXAGGERATION
Oxymoron AN EXPRESSION THAT USES WORDS THAT CONTRADICT ONE ANOTHER
Comparisons - Simile A COMPARISON THAT USES LIKE OR AS
Comparisons - MetaphorA COMPARISON THAT USES A DIRECT STATEMENT
Mark the Poem Read the poems and label
rhyme schemes for “Dream Deferred”, “Dreams”, and “The Eagle”
Underline any similes and metaphors in the poems
Personification
Personification is GIVING HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS TO A NONHUMAN OBJECT
Personification Poets often describe
INANIMATE OBJECTS or elements of NATURE as behaving like HUMAN BEINGS.
Create Your Own/Mark the Poem
Create your own examples of personification
Read and label the rhyme scheme for “The Wind” and “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
Underline any examples of personification in the poems
Sounds Poetry is often read OUT
LOUD. Because of this, WRITERS often choose words that have a certain EFFECT when HEARD with the EAR as well as SEEN with the EYE.
Alliteration THE REPETITION OF
INITIAL CONSONANT SOUNDS
Examples: SHE SELLS SEA SHELLS BY THE SEA SHORE
PETER PIPER PICKED A PECK OF PICKLED PEPPERS
Onomatopoeia A WORD THAT
SOUNDS LIKE THE NOISE IT REPRESENTS
Examples: BUZZ, PLOP, HISS
Mark the Poem Read and label the rhyme
scheme for “Jabberwocky” Circle 5 nonsense words
that Carroll has created and label their part of speech.
Drawing Based on the description you
read in the poem, draw a picture of what you think the Jabberwocky looks like.
Be sure to use color in your drawing; feel free to use markers and colored pencils to do so.
“Jabberwocky”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm9o6DH_uzE
Sonnet
A sonnet is a poem consisting of FOURTEEN lines of RHYMING poetry. There are TWO types of sonnets and each has a PARTICULAR rhyme scheme.
Types of Sonnets English: Also called a
SHAKESPEAREAN Sonnet
Usually follows the rhyme scheme
ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Types of Sonnets Italian: Also called a
PETRARCHAN Sonnet Usually follows the
rhyme scheme
ABBA ABBA CDE CDE
Mark the Poem Read and label the rhyme
scheme for the three sonnets in the packet
Label them as either English/Shakespearean or Italian/Petrarchan sonnets
Haiku This is a STYLE of
JAPANESE poetry. A haiku consists of
THREE lines of VERSE. The FIRST and THIRD
lines each have FIVE syllables.
Haiku The MIDDLE line has
SEVEN syllables. The topic of a haiku is
usually a PRECISE detail or MOMENT of NATURE or EMOTION.
Create Your Own Write two haiku in your
packet in the space provided.
Be sure to focus on an aspect of nature and stick to the syllable pattern!
Limerick
This style of poetry consists of FIVE lines of VERSE.
The FIRST, SECOND, and FIFTH lines rhyme and consist of EIGHT syllables.
Limerick The THIRD and FOURTH
lines rhyme and consist of FIVE syllables.
These poems are usually intended to be HUMOROUS.
Syllable pattern is 88558
Rhyme scheme is aabba
Create Your Own Write two limericks in
your packet in the space provided.
Be sure to make them humorous and stick to the syllable pattern!
Take a Look As we have studied thus far, an
author’s choice of words, sounds, and use of figurative language and comparisons impacts the meaning and power of the poem.
For example, two authors can write a poem about the same general topic but create very different poems.
Take a Look Read the poems “Fire and
Ice” and “There Will Come Soft Rains”
Mark the rhyme scheme for the poems
Complete the journal entry as directed