Sounds of Poetry
Poetic Devices
Types of Poetry
Reading a Poem
Selections
100

"Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore"

Alliteration

100
Name the 3 figures of speech.
Metaphor, Simile, Personification.
100
Poems usually come in ________ instead of sentences, and present ideas in _________ instead of paragraphs.
lines and stanzas
100
This is when you add a summary, thoughts, comments and questions to a poem.
Annotation.
100
14 lines per poem.
Sonnet: "On the Grasshopper and the Cricket"
200
When two rhyming lines are consecutive (one after the other).
Couplet.
200
When poets carry a metaphor over several lines.
Extended Metaphor.
200
These poems tell stories.
Narrative Poems.
200
There are few of these in a poem, so EACH ONE is important.
Words.
200
This poem mourns the death of Abraham Lincoln.
"O Captain! My Captain!"
300
When rhymes occur WITHIN lines.
Internal rhymes.
300
This is a comparison that uses like or as.
Simile.
300
This is a poem of mourning.
Elegy.
300
Sometimes the meaning of the poem is stated or hinted here.
The title.
300
This young man dies with regrets of gambling and drinking.
"The Dying Cowboy"
400
Stressed and unstressed syllables in a regular pattern.
Meter.
400
Language that appeals to our senses.
Imagery.
400
Poems that celebrate something.
Odes.
400
When you restate a line using your own words.
Paraphrasing.
400
"One if by land, two if by sea"
"Paul Revere's Ride"
500
Roar. Moo. Sizzle. Snap. Crackle. Pop.
Onomatopoeia.
500
flag = country heart = love
Symbol.
500
Song-like poem, often about love, betrayal, or death.
Ballad.
500
Who is Miss C's twin?
Hermione Granger.
500
"Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives gives us we find poems"
"Valentine for Ernest Mann"
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