Meter
Regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
What is Meter?
Accent or emphasis, either strong or weak, given to each syllable in a piece of writing
What is Stress?
She sells seashells by the sea shore.
What is Alliteration?
Repetition of concluding sounds in different words, often intentionally used at the end of poetic lines
What is Rhyme?
Write five words that perfectly rhyme with "cake" on the board.
E.G., bake, rake, take, lake, stake, fake, brake, intake, etc.
Words like "break" or "steak" do NOT count.
A repeated unit of a meter
What is a Foot?
Two syllables, unstressed followed by stressed
What is Iamb?
Buzz; cuckoo; sizzle...
What is Onomatopoeia?
Born and horn; crab and grab; day and lay...
What is Perfect Rhyme?
Perform 5 onomatopoeias for the class.
The quickest and most dramatic performer wins.
A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable
What is Iambic Pentameter?
Two stressed syllables
What is Spondee?
He creeped three feet.
What is Assonance?
Pick, pack, and peck; bat, bet, bit, bot, and but; lads and lids...
What is Imperfect Rhyme?
Write a comedic elegy on the board.
Process of determining the meter of a poem by analyzing the stressed and unstressed syllables of each line
What is Scansion?
Three syllables, two unstressed, with the third stressed
What is Anapest?
Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
What is Consonance?
Cough and tough; bomb and tomb; hear and bear...
What is Eye Rhyme?
Write a three-sentence story, each sentence containing either Alliteration, Assonance, or Consonance.
Whichever story is most creative and still includes all three.
Trochaic and dactylic meters; move from stressed to unstressed syllables
What is Falling Meter?
Draw the symbols for "stressed" and "unstressed", respectively, on the board.
What are ' (stressed) and ᵕ (unstressed)?
"The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!"
What is Cacophony?
Backing and hacking; tricky and picky; moaning and groaning; generate and venerate...
What is Feminine (Falling) Rhyme?
Write a haiku (3 lines, 5-7-5 syllables) on the board that uses Cacophony.
Whichever haiku makes us want to gouge out our ears the most.