Poetic Techniques
The repetition of beginning constant sounds in words.
What is Alliteration?
A type of Japanese poetry to paint a picture of nature. It is three lines and consists of the syllables 5,7,5
What is Haiku?
I'm dressed
Like I'm ready for action
While I'm lying here
Wanting to watch the action
To watch something
To watch myself slip away
Into darkness and night
I want to go watch
The world go by
I want it to
Not notice me
And let me lie here
And Watch
What is Free Verse?
A number of lines that divide a poem into sections
What is Stanza?
A pattern of rhyme in a stanza or poem
What is Rhyme Scheme
A comparison of 2 unlike things without using “like” or “as”
What is a Metaphor?
It does not require a rhyme or rhyme scheme. It does not usually use stanzas or meters
What is Free Verse?
There was a young girl on a tower,
Who looked just as fresh as a flower,
Her hair was like silk,
Her skin smooth as milk,
But her breath made the strongest night cower.
What is a Limerick?
When two or more words have the same sound
What is Rhyme?
A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as"
What is Simile?
Gives human qualities to non-human ideas or objects
What is Personification?
It is a 5 verse poem that is humorous. The 1st, 2nd, and 5th line all rhyme and the 3rd and 4th rhyme.
What is a Limerick?
Butterflies are cool
In the big, huge, green forest
They fly up so high!
What is Haiku?
The repeating of a word or phrase in a line or poem
What is Repetition?
It is a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern in a verse or in the lines of the poem.
What is Meter?
The use of words that sound like the objects or actions they describe.
What is Onomonipia?
A poem that states a poets sadness about the death of an important person
What is an Elegy?
The bird fell like a stone, as if the light
That held the wings aloft had been too much
Abstracted of its substance grown so rare
It wasted even summer at a touch.
But dreaming then, I did not see the kill.
I saw no clouds, no shadows overhead,
A grackle blazed with blackness on the grass.
I saw the bird. It lay like silence dead.
The ground was rich with clover, plantain, dock,
Weeds in a track of sunshine, overgrown,
Spotting the noon with stillness where i stood,
Possessed by sleep. The bird was blackened stone:
An image for the mind to apprehend,
Not terrible but true. The swarthy breast
Unruffled by the fury of its fall
Lay slack as silk, improvident with rest;
The wigs were water, now, and sunken fire,
Almost the phoenix dazzled in decay.
Then the wind blew. I heard across the field
A sound of summer singing gone astray.
What is Elegy?
Using the page, spaces between words, indentation, etc. to create an effect in a poem
What is White Space?
The way the reader feels after reading the poem
What is Mood?
A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect
What is Hyperbole?
A 14 line poem that states the feelings of a poet. They can follow the abab/cdcd/efef/gg rhyme scheme
What is a Sonnet?
Candy is always a sweet and yummy treat.
It also comes in all different cool shapes.
Candy might look like a glum dull white sheet
Maybe it will look like flaming red capes.
I think candy is very delicious.
Candy can look like a cookie that's blue
I think candy is so bubbleicious
Candy can be a sweet sugary blue.
It is also in all different flavors.
Candy can be orange or bubble gum.
There are many other candy flavors.
I love sweet and sugary candy. Yum!
Candy is always a sweet yummy treat.
Candy is always edible to eat.
What is a Sonnet?
The repetition of vowel sounds in a line of poetry
What is Assonance?
The repetition of constant sounds in a line of poetry
What is Consonance?