Stanzas
What is a Stanza?
A group of lines in a poem, separated by a space.
How do long lines affect how you read a poem?
Long lines make you read slower, short lines make you read faster.
What is rhyme?
The repeated use of words that end in the same sound.
It’s raining, it’s pouring; the old man is snoring
What is Repetition in poetry?
What is a simile?
A comparison between two things to show a similarity using the words "like" or "as".
How do we determine the name of a stanza?
Count the number of lines
Couplet= 2, tercet= 3, quatrain= 4
Find an end-stopped line in this stanza.
Is it okay to begin with the obvious? I am full of stones—
is it okay not to look out this window, but to look out another?
A mentor once said, You can't start a poem with a man looking
out a window. Too many men looking out a window.
After "Stones", "another", "window"
What type of rhyme is in the example below?
“Whose woods these are I think I know,
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with Snow.”
End rhyme
"Bang", "boom", "crash", "splash", and "thunk" are all examples of what sound device?
Onomatopoeia
What is it called when you give human qualities or characteristics to something nonhuman (object, place, animal, idea)?
Personification
What type is the stanza below?
The city lies back in its winding-sheet
While little digits drum a steady beat
Couplet
Where is an example of enjambment in this stanza?
Ultimately everything
Becomes boring.
Even great miracles
Become boring.
Even the tremendous powers of the cosmic gods
Become boring.
After "Everything", "miracles", "gods"
What type of rhyme is in the example below?
“The ship was cheer’d, the harbor clear’d,
And every day, for food or play,
In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,..
Whiles all the Night, through fog-smoke white,
Glimmer’d the white moonshine …
Internal rhyme
What is alliteration?
The repeated use of words with the same beginning sound.
The child bounced the ball at the backyard barbecue.
What type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below?
A Dream is a wish your heart makes.
Metaphor
What type is the stanza below?
A week of autumn snow, and today the sun,
the buildings fizzy with melting, the beggar
draping his sheets over the bank's homeless-spikes.
Tercet
What type of line break is in bold below?
But I love the I, steel I-beam
that my father sold. They poured the pig iron
into the mold, and it fed out slowly,
a bending jelly in the bath, and it hardened,
Caesura
What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
AABB
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, (A)
How I wonder what you are. (A)
Up above the world so high, (B)
Like a diamond in the sky. (B)
What is the sound device in bold below?
Keep your eyes on the prize
Assonance
What type of figurative language is being used in the sentence below?
This class is going to be the death of me.
Hyperbole
What type is the stanza below?
O transient voyager of heaven!
O silent sign of winter skies!
What adverse wind thy sail has driven
To dungeons where a prisoner lies?
Quatrain
Which line breaks rely on punctuation?
? ! , . -- : ;
End-stops and caesura
What is the rhyme scheme of this stanza?
The people along the sand
All turn and look one way.
They turn their back on the land.
They look at the sea all day.
ABAB
The people along the sand (A)
All turn and look one way. (B)
They turn their back on the land. (A)
They look at the sea all day. (B)
What is the sound device in bold below?
Betty Botter bought some butter
But she said the butter’s bitter
If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter
But a bit of better butter will make my batter better
So ‘twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter
Consonance
Simile and metaphor
Both make comparisons to show similarities, but simile uses "like" or "as", while metaphor does not.