Poetry vs Prose
How is poetry different in terms of margins?
What is a line in a poem?
He was a bull.
Metaphor
Going to Greece would go well for girls.
Alliteration
My alarm clock yelled at me to get out of bed
Personification
Poems are likely to repeat, stories are not
What is a stanza?
Stanzas are the paragraphs of poems
He was like a bull.
Simile
I'm so hungry I could eat an elephant!
Hyperbole
The frog went ribbit
Onomatopoeia
You read the poem "Martin Luther King Jr." in class. What word did they repeat in this poem?
Read line 5 of this poem:
But then there comes that moment rare
When, for no cause that I can find,
The little voices of the air
Sound above all the sea and wind.
The sea and wind do then obey
And sighing, sighing double notes
Of double basses, content to play
A droning chord for the little throats—
The sea and wind do then obey
She was like a princess.
Simile
Hungry Harry wanted to eat a hamburger
Alliteration
Time flies!
Personification
For homework, you read the poem "First They Came for the Jews". What phrase repeats in the poem?
And I did not speak out
Read line 1 of stanza 1 of this poem:
But then there comes that moment rare
When, for no cause that I can find,
The little voices of the air
Sound above all the sea and wind.
The sea and wind do then obey
And sighing, sighing double notes
Of double basses, content to play
A droning chord for the little throats—
But then there comes that moment rare
She was a princess
Metaphor
Hyperbole
Onomatopoeia