Poetry Terms
This is when words sound the same at the beginning, middle, or end of a line of poetry.
rhyme
Not just about this emotion, ballads can also be heroic or comedic
love
What are 2 setting details of the poem "The Ballad of Birmingham"?
Birmingham, Alabama, streets, march, church
This kind of modern music often borrows from ballad stuctures
long songs
They have watered the street, / It shines in the glare of lamps, / Cold, white lamps, And lies / Like a slow-moving river
Simile
Poetry is structured using _________ (one verse) and _______ (many verses; paragraph).
lines and stanzas
These are common in both traditional and modern ballads and repeat like a chorus
what are refrains or repeated choruses
What is a detail about the conflict in the poem "The Ballad of Birmingham"?
Daughter wants to go to the march but her mother wont let her, bombing at the church, racial hatred
True or False: Ballads can be comedic
True
For I fear those guns will fire
alliteration
This is a pattern of beats that you hear in a poem. (You hear it in rap music a lot.)
rhythm
A poem that tells a story in short stanzas
A narrative poem
What is the "tone" or "feeling" readers experience from reading the poem "The Ballad of Birmingham"?
sad, depressing, hate-filled, loss, grief
Modern love songs are examples of this evolution in ballads
Modernisation of the ballad form
The daisy hugging the earth / in August, ha!
personificatoin
This is the pattern of rhyme that happens in poetry. Each line that rhymes receives a letter, and each rhyme after that receives the next letter in the alphabet (example - abab, abcdabcd).
rhyme scheme
Ballads typically follow this narrative structure.
beginning, middle, end
List 2 examples of sensory detail or figurative language from the poem "The Ballad of Birmingham".
Sensory detail - fierce, wild, clubs, dogs, hoses, guns, fire, rose-petal sweet, bricks, glass, white shoe
Metaphor - combed her night dark hair,
Alliteration - wet and wild
Most ballads are written in stanzas with how many lines
four lines
A treasurer of immortal days, / I roam the glorious world giving endless praise,
hyperbole
1. To communicate feelings/emotions
2. To make beauty with language
3. To inform about events or ideas
4. To create an interesting form of writing
Ballads often use this pattern: a _ _ _
b c b
What is good theme statement for the poem "The Ballad of Birmingham"?
1. Hatred can destroy innocent people
2. Our best intentions sometimes end in disaster
This poetic technique helps listeners anticipate structure
structured pattern or stanza form
The earth is the cup of the sun, / That filleth at morning
metaphor