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Please grab both worksheets on your way and write down your homework.
Have quick write journals & vocab books
Poetry
Language written in lines with strong rhythm and images
Example: Any poem you know…
Stanza
A group of lines in a poem that fit together.
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Narrative Poem
A poem that tells a story
Example: “Casey at the Bat”
Lyric Poem
A shorter poem that has strong imagery and shows a particular feeling or thought.
Example: “The Road Not Taken”
Elegy A mournful poem usually
focusing on the death of someone famous or close to the writer.
Example: “O Captain, My Captain” by Whitman about Lincoln
Literal Language
The actual, dictionary meaning of a word; language that means what it appears to mean
Figurative Language
Language used in a special way to create a special effect
Example: “Put your heads together”
Simile
A comparison between two unlike things using like or as.
Example: “his hoofbeats were like miniature thunder”
Metaphor
A comparison between two unlike things
Example:“Morning is a new sheet of paper to write on”
Hyperbole
Extreme Exaggeration for effect
Example: “I have thousands of errands to do.”
Personification
Giving human traits to inanimate objects, animals, or feelings.
Example: “The sun smiled on the happy walkers”
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Please take out your homework and open up to your poetry term glossary.
Oxymoron
Literary technique in which two contradictory words come together for a special effect
Example: “Jumbo shrimp”
SOUNDS OF POETRY
Rhyme
Words have the same end sound
Example: hat and cat
Internal Rhyme:Rhyme within a line of poetry
–Example: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary”
Rhyme Scheme
The pattern of rhyme in a poem.
–Example: next slide…
Example…
–ABCB in :•“It doesn’t breathe It doesn’t smell It doesn’t feel So very well.”
Rhythm
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables; the beat
Example: “I wandered lonely as a cloud”
Onomatopoeia
The sound of a word matches its meaning
Example: “snap, crackle, pop”
Alliteration
Repetition of the same consonant sound or letter at the beginning of words close together.
Example: “Sickly Silence”
Repetition
The same words or lines repeated for emphasis
Example: “And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep”
Refrain
The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals, especially at the end of each stanza
(chorus of any song)
Symbol
Concrete or real object used to represent an idea
Example: Bird = Freedom
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Please take out your vocabulary book and open up to page 117.
Please separate your desks in order to get ready from the quiz.
On the back of your quiz, please write the following three headings:
p. 120# _______________# _______________p.121# _________________# _________________p. 123# _________________
Please take out your term glossary to finish up our terms.
Mood
The feeling the reader gets from a piece of writing; atmosphere
Example: happy, eerie, gloomy
Tone
Author’s attitude toward the subject
Example: serious, sarcastic
Allusion
A reference to a familiar person, place, thing, or event.
Example: America, Land of opportunity
Your task:
Write a poem where you have one of the following:– Mood– Tone– Allusion…– GOOD LUCK!
Tone, mood, allusion???
The dreary, dark demon haunted us today,
His eyes pierced me with an evil gaze,
The smoke filled tunnel was his lair,
Where no one left without a dare…
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