Introduction to Poetry
Definition: Writing chosen and arranged to create a certain emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm.
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Poetry
A Japanese style poem that follows the syllabic pattern of 5 - 7 - 5. Are about everyday things, but mostly about nature.
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Haiku
A type of poem that includes or consists of a large amount of things, people, places, feelings, actions, ideas, etc. that have similar qualities.
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List Poems
ANSWER BOTH QUESTIONS CORRECTLY FOR CREDIT:
- Comparing two unlike things using the words "like" or "as"
- Comparing two unlike things WITHOUT using the words "like" or "as"
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- Simile
- Metaphor
Definition: A reference to a well-known person/event/ place outside the text.
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Allusion
What are the individual units that poets use to create a poem. The "sentences" of a poem, that create large chunks in a poem.
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Lines
A poem that resembles a diamond, with each line having a specific purpose.
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Cinquain
A narrative poem that often contains rhyme, and is characterized by short stanzas and simple words. This poems tells a heroic or tragic story.
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Ballad
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- Over exaggerating to show strong feeling or effect.
- Expression with less strength than expected.
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- Hyperbole
- Understatement
Definition: A saying that isn't meant to be take literally.
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Idiom
Definition: A group of lines whose rhyme scheme is usually followed throughout a poem. Similar to a paragraph in prose/ most other writing forms.
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Stanza
A silly five line poem that follows the AABBA rhyme scheme.
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Limerick
Very long narrative (story) poem that tells of the adventures of a hero, and inspires the reader to choose good over evil. Usually INCREDIBLY long.
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Epic
Definition: Giving human traits to objects or ideas.
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Personification
Definition: A form of "word play" in which words have a double meaning. Often sound like dad-jokes.
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Pun
Definition: the ordered pattern of rhymes at the end of the lines of a poem or verse.
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Rhyme Scheme
A poem that expresses grief or mourning for someone who has passed, or something that you one must "move on" from.
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Elegy
A poem that is in a fixed form of 14 lines of 10 syllables each, that sums up the theme in the last two lines. These poems are usually about love/ philosophy.
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Sonnet
ANSWER ALL THREE FOR CREDIT:
- Repeating the BEGINNING sound in multiple words.
- Repeating the VOWEL sound in multiple words.
- Repeating the CONSONANT sound in multiple words.
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- Alliteration
- Assonance
- Consonance
Definition: When two words are put together that contradict each other -- opposites.
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Oxymoron
Name the number of each in this poem:
- Lines total
- Stanzas
- Rhyme Scheme
Mr. Toigo took a drink
His bottle was large as a sink
But when he sipped
The bottle tipped
And now floor looks like a rink.
Ms. Durbin heard him shout
So she sprinted from he room to scout
She peaked right in
And with a grin
She laughed at him without a doubt
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10 lines
2 Stanzas
AABBA AABBA
ANSWER ALL THREE QUESTIONS FOR CREDIT!
- Type of poem in each stanza.
- What figurative language is used in the last line of the 1st stanza? (Not hyperbole)
- What figurative language is used in the second line of the 1st stanza? (Not hyperbole)
Mr. Toigo took a drink
His bottle was large as a sink
But when he sipped
The bottle tipped
And now the floor is a rink.
Ms. Durbin heard him shout
So she sprinted from her room to scout
She peaked right in
And with a grin
She laughed at him without a doubt
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- Limerick
- Metaphor
- Simile
A lyric poem that is a tribute to someone or something, that can be serious or humorous.
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Ode
Definition: A word that makes a sound
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Onomatopoeia
Definition: A figurative language saying in which a bit of "wisdom" is given.
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Proverb