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Poetry Study Guide What would you like to learn about poetry?
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Poetry Study Guide
What would you like to learn about poetry?
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Metaphor
• Comparison of two seemingly unlike things without using like, as, than, or resembles.
• Almost as if a statement of fact.
• Example: The forest is a loud marketplace.• The fog comes on little cat feet.
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Simile
• A comparison of two seemingly unlike things using a connecting word. (Like, as, than, resembles)
• Example: The class is like a crowd at a concert.
• Do dreams dry up like raisins in the sun?
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Personification
• Language attributed to nonhuman things.• Example: The trees yawned in the strong
breeze.
• The sky hollered with a thunderous clap.
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Onomatopoeia
• The use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning.
• Example: The bee buzzed around the flower.• The snake hissed in the grass.• We heard a honk right before the car accident.
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Imagery
• Descriptive language writers use to make word pictures or images.
• Example: Describe the picture to the right in your own words.
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Rhythm, Rhyme, Rhyme Scheme, Meter
• Rhythm is the pattern created by the stressed and unstressed syllables of words in sequence.
• Rhyme is the repetition of identical or similar sounds in stressed syllables.
• Rhyme scheme- a pattern of end rhymes.
• Meter- controlled pattern of rhythm.
• Free verse- no set meter or rhyme scheme.
• We will explore these sound devices on Wednesday.
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Alliteration, Consonance, Assonance
• Alliteration- repetition of initial consonant sounds.
• Example: Sometimes, super salmon sing songs.
• Assonance- repetition of vowel sounds.
• Example: I love gloves from the oven.
• Consonance- repetition of consonants within nearby words in which the separating vowels differ.
• Examples: live/love, lift/loft, sift/soft, tame/time
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Foreshadow
• Suggestion that something may happen• Indication of events/actions to come
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Hyperbole
• Exaggeration• Example: This is taking forever. • I could eat a horse.
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Allusion
• A casual reference• Example: Melinda speaks of Cubism and
Picasso.
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Repetition
• Repetition- the use of any language element more than once.
• Example: Hughes’s repetition of “Let America be America again”
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Types of Poetry• Narrative- A story is told in
verse.• Epic- a long narrative poem
about gods and heroes.• Ballad- songlike narrative
about an adventure or romance.
• Lyric- a brief poem is which the author expresses the feelings of a single speaker.
• Dramatic- writer tells a story using a character’s own thoughts or statements.
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Elements of Poetry
• Stanza- groupings of lines.
• Couplets- groupings of two lines
• Tercets- three-line stanzas
• Quatrains- four-line stanzas
• Sestet- six-line stanza• Octave- eight-line stanza
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Sonnet and Haiku
• Sonnet- fourteen-line lyric poem with formal patterns of rhyme, rhythm, and line structure.
• See assignment for Wednesday and Thursday
• Haiku- poem containing three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
• Usually used to convey a single, vivid emotion using imagery.
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Iambic Pentameter
• Iamb- short - long• Pentameter- five feet