my poetry vocabulary
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No. 1, Pratap Nagar Udaipur
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Il Term Project Session 2010-11
Submitted To:-
Pramila Madam
Submitted By:-
Shailendra Paliwal
Class XI B
Poetry
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Poetry Vocabulary
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Poetry
Poetry is literature that uses a fewwords to tell about ideas, feelingsand paints a picture in the readersmind.
Most poems were written to be
read aloud. Poems may or may not rhyme.
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Form
The form of a poem is the waythat it looks on the page.
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What a poem looks like:
Bad Hair Day
I looked in the mirrorwith shock and with dreadto discover two antlershad sprung from my head .
StanzaRhyming words
line
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Lines
The way that poets arrange wordsinto lines.
The lines may or may not besentences.
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Stanzas
Groups of lines in traditionalpoetry.
What Bugs Me When my teacher tells me to write a poem.When my mother tells me to clean up my room.When my sister practices her violin while Im watchingTV.When my father tells me to turn off the TV and do my
homework.When my brother picks a fight with me and I have to goto bed early.When my teacher asks me to get up in front of the classand read the poem I wrote on the school bus.
Stanza
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Free Verse
Poems that do not usually rhymeand have no fixed rhythm orpattern. They are written like aconversation.
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Sound Devices
Elements of poetry that use onetype of sound relatedcharacteristic.
Rhyme Rhythm Onomatopoeia Meter and more.......
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MeterA pattern of stressed and unstressedsyllables.Meter occurs when the stressed and
unstressed syllables of the words in apoem are arranged in a repeating pattern.When poets write in meter, they count outthe number of stressed (strong) syllablesand unstressed (weak) syllables for eachline. They repeat the pattern throughoutthe poem.
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Rhyme
Sounds that are alike at the end of words, such as snow and crow.
There are several types of rhymesuch as end rhyme like run andfun. Internal rhyme such as:
Once upon a midnight dreary , while Ipondered weak and weary .
Near Rhyme- words that do not exactly rhymesuch as rose and lose.
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Sample Rhyme schemeThe Germ by Ogden Nash
A mighty creature is the g erm ,Though smaller than the pachyd erm .
His customary dwelling pl ace Is deep within the human r ace .
His childish pride he often pl eases By giving people strange dis eases .
Do you, my poppet, feel inf irm ?You probably contain a g erm .
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Alliteration
Consonant sounds repeated at thebeginnings of words
If P eter P iper p icked a p eck of p ickled p eppers, how many p ickled p eppers did P eter P iper p ick?
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Onomatopoeia
Words that imitate the sound theyare naming
BUZZ OR sounds that imitate anothersound
The s ilken, s ad, un c ertain,ru s tling of
each purple curtain . . .
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Rhythm
The beat of the poem. These are made up patterns of
strong and weak syllables.
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Repetition The repeating of sounds, words,
phrases, or lines in a poem.
I like popcorn!I like candy!I like chips!
I like ice cream!I need to brush my teeth!
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Figurative Language and
other poetic devices Figurative language Simile Metaphor Hyperbole
Idiom Personification
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Figurative Language
Words and phrases that help thereader picture things in a new
way.Example:She heard music when he kissed
her.
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Imagery Words or phrases that appeal to
the five senses: sight, hearing,smell, taste, and touch.
Imagery is what helps you paint apicture or imagine what ishappening or what the poet isfeeling.
Example: The hamburgers sizzledon the grill
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Simile
A comparison of two things usingthe words like or as.
Her smile was bright like the sun!The peach was as delicious as a kiss.My dog is as mean as a snake.
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Metaphor
A comparison of two thingsWITHOUT using as or like
His face is a puzzle to me, I cannever figure out what he isthinking.
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Personification
Giving an animal or an objecthuman qualities.
My dog smiles at me. The house glowed with happiness. The car was irritated when she
pumped it full of cheap gas.
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Tone
The writer's attitude toward hisreaders and his subject; his mood
or moral view. A writer can beformal, informal, playful, ironic,and especially, optimistic or
pessimistic.
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Assonance Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or
lines of poetryExamples of ASSONANCE: Slow the low gradual moan came in the
snowing. - John Masefield
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweetsleep.
- William Shakespeare
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Symbolism When a
person,place,thing, orevent thathasmeaningin itself alsorepresents
, or standsfor,somethingelse.
= Innocence
= America
=Peace
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Idiom
An expression where the literalmeaning of the words is not the
meaning of the expression. Itmeans something other than whatit actually says.
Ex. Its raining cats and dogs.
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Hyperbole
obvious and intentionalexaggeration
EX: There are a million people inhere!
I could sleep for a year! I have a ton of homework
tongight!
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No Where Near the End!!!
There is so much more topoetry....we have only scratched
the surface.....
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Thanks
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