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Haiku
Poetic Elements 1
Poetic Elements 2
Poetry Analysis
Poetry vocab
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The traditional syllable pattern of Haiku.
What is 5, 7, 5?
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When we compare things using like or as.
What is a simile? Ex: "His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like mouldy hay," From “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes
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The repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of words.
What is alliteration. Ex: "Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard, And he tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred." From “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes
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The name of a poem.
What is the title?
100
What we call each line of words in a poem.
What is a line?
200
Traditional Haiku are about these topics.
What are seasons and nature?
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The mental pictures created by words in poem.
What is imagery? Ex: "The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas," From “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes
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Words that have the same ending sound, usualy atthe end of lines of poetry.
What is rhyme? Ex: Now I lay me down to rest. I pray I pass tomorrows test. If I should die before I wake, that's one less test Ill have to take
200
The lesson you learn from a poem.
What is the theme?
200
What we call a group of words in a poem. sort of like a verse in a song.
What is a stanza?
300
The number of lines in a Haiku poem.
What is 3?
300
When we compare things without "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor. Ex: "The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor," From “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes
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A figure of speech involving exaggeration to help create a desired image.
What is hyperbole? Ex: “I’ve told you a million times”
300
The person who writes a poem.
Who is the author?
300
The person or thing that seems to be speaking in the poem.
Who is the speaker?
400
Haiku should capture this.
What is a single moment?
400
When we give human characteristics to inanimate objects.
What is personification? Ex: "And the dish ran away with the spoon."
400
A word that is an actual imitation of a sound.
What is onomatopoeia ? Ex: Snap, crackle, pop!
400
The way a poem feels.
What is the tone?
400
The person, thing, or idea that the poem is about.
What is the subject?
500
Write a haiku that starts with "What is..."
What is...
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The repetition of vowel sounds in a group of words.
What is assonance? Ex: “…the rare and radiantmaiden whom the angelsnamed Lenore…” From “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe
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When a poet uses the same word or phase more than once.
What is repetition? Ex: Water water water and water.
500
Poets try to appeal to this way in which we experience the world.
What are our senses?
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A poem that shows what it is about by the way the words are arranged on the page.
What is a shape poem?