Slide 1: Poetry Vocabulary Free powerpoints at http://www.worldofteaching.com
Slide 2: Alliteration: – Repetition of initial consonant sounds – Example: Sister Suzy sat on the seashore until suddenly she was swallowed by a shark. • Allusion: – A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art •
Slide 3: 3. Ballad: – A song-like poem that tells a story • Blank Verse: – Poetry written in unrhymed, iambic pentameter. • Concrete Poem: – A poem with a shape that suggests its subject – Example: George Herbert’s Easter Wings and The Alter
Slide 4: 6. Figurative Language: – Writing that is not meant to be taken literally – Example: He made me so mad I wanted to die. 7. Free Verse: – Poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter
Slide 5: 8. Image: – A word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses Highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else Example: He is such a pig when he eats! • Lyric Poem: – • Metaphor: – –
Slide 6: 11. Mood: – 12. Onomatopoeia: – – The feeling created in the reader by a literary work The use of words that imitate sounds Example: The buzz of the bee was very loud. A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics Example: The tree waved excitedly in the wind. • – – Personification:
Slide 7: 14. Repetition: – The use, more than once, of any element of language Repetition of sounds at the end of words Example: Roses are red, violets are blue….. – A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem 15. Rhyme: – – 16. Rhyme Scheme:
Slide 8: 17. Rhythm: – 18. Simile: – A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas My love is like a red rose. Pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language 19. Stanza: – A formal division of lines in a poem considered as a unit
Slide 9: 20. Motif – Main or reoccurring theme. 21. Extended Metaphor – a comparison developed over several lines of poetry. 22. Pun – Double
Slide 10: 23. Confessional poetry – confession of an activity or an emotion. 24. Elegy – Pays tribute to a person (usually dead) 25. Imagist poetry – uses lots of images to paint a picture for the reader.
Slide 11: Humor • Humor in poetry can arise from a number of sources: – Surprise – Exaggeration – Bringing together of unrelated things • Most funny poems have two things in common: – Rhythm – Rhyme
Slide 12: Rhythm & Rhyme • Using more spirited language makes humorous situations even more humorous “The Porcupine” By Ogden Nash Any hound a porcupine nudges Can’t be blamed for harboring grudges. I know one hound that laughed all winter At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.
Slide 13: If you take away the rhythm and rhyme, the humor vanishes. Any hound that touches a porcupine Can’t be blamed for holding a grudge I know one hound that laughed all winter long At a porcupine that sat on a piece of wood
Slide 14: Limericks • A limerick is a poem of five lines • The first, second, and fifth lines have three rhythmic beats and rhyme with one another. • The third and fourth lines have two beats and rhyme with one another. • They are always light-hearted, humorous poems.
Slide 15: Limericks There once was a man with no hair. He gave everyone quite a scare. He got some Rogaine, Grew out a mane, And now he resembles a bear!
Slide 16: Limerick About a Bee I wish that my room had a floor, I don’t care so much for a door. But this walking around Without touching the ground Is getting to be quite a bore.
Slide 17: Another Limerick There once was a very small mouse Who lived in a very small house, The ocean’s spray Washed it away, All that was left was her blouse!
Slide 18: You will create a limerick similar to this one… There once was a man from Beijing. All his life he hoped to be King. So he put on a crown, Which quickly fell down. That small silly man from Beijing.
Slide 19: Fill in the blanks and create your own Limerick. There once was a _____ from _____. All the while she/he hoped ________. So she/he ____________________, And ________________________, That _________ from ___________.
Slide 20: The class Limerick: There once was a _____ from _____. All the while she/he hoped ________. So she/he ____________________, And ________________________, That _________ from ___________.