Poetry
Define Poetry
Poetry is writing that is arranged with meaning, rhythm, and sound in mind to create and share ideas and feelings.
Define Imagery.
Imagery is writing that paints a picture with words by drawing upon the five senses plus movement or emotion.
Define Sound Device.
Sound devices are tools (words) used to create sounds and mood within a poem.
Define Form in poetry.
In poetry, form is the structure that the poem takes.
Examples of ONOMATOPOEIA
POW, BANG, WOOF, SHUSH, HUSH, SWOOSH
Three of the four tools poets use to create their poems.
Form
Sound devices
Imagery
Figurative Language
Which sense is used in this line of the Eagle:
"The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls"
"The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls" uses SIGHT imagery to help you picture the ocean.
The repeating of a word or phrase in a poem is
REPETITION
The length of a poem explains the
The number of lines of the poem shows the length of the poem.
An example of alliteration:
Peter Piper Picked a Pack of Pickles.
The five senses used in imagery
SIGHT, SMELL, SOUND, TASTE, TOUCH
Which senses does the poet use to help me picture this?
A poem is a busy bee
Buzzing in your head.
His hive is full of hidden thoughts
Waiting to be said.
The poet uses SOUND and SIGHT in this poem.
When two or more words have the same end sound is
RHYME
When the words in a line stop and a new line starts is
LINE BREAKS
An example of RHYME
I don't like green eggs and Ham, Sam I Am.
The number of lines in a Sonnet.
14
EMOTION and MOVEMENT
A word that sounds like the object or action it describes is
ONOMATOPOEIA
The pattern of rhymes in a poem is the
RHYME SCHEME
Identify the Rhyme Scheme, Lines and Stanzas:
In a garden green and wide
A little cat would run and hide
He chased the bees that buzzed all day
Then curled to nap in shady hay
The flowers swayed in gentle breeze
The cat climbed high in apple trees
He dreamed of fish and bowls of cream
And purred along his happy dream
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD
Lines: 8
Stanza: 1
The difference between Rhyme and Alliteration is
Rhymes have a matching end sound, and Alliteration has a matching beginning sound.
Name the imagery in this Shel Silverstein poem:
Let’s have one day for girls and boyses
Buzz a buzzer, laugh until your lungs wear out,
Clap your hands like a thunderstorm,
Jump like a frog in a puddle of thunder.
Sound, Emotion, Touch, Movement
The repetition of the beginning sound of words is
ALLITERATION
Poetic lines is to page numbers like
Poetic _________ is to a paragraph
STANZAS
How many line breaks are in this poem?
The Kite
The kite
climbs higher
and higher—
until the string
is just
a whisper
in my hand.
6