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Narrative Poetry

Exploring the Genre

Poetry: Exploring the Genre

Whether telling a story, capturing a single

moment, or describing nature in a whole new

way, poetry is the most musical of all literary

forms.

Poetry: Strategies for Writing

Writing poetry is like creating a mystery. You provide the reader with clues in the form of words and phrases. These clues are pieces that form a complete picture. Use these strategies to help guide you:

Poetry: Strategies

1.Figurative Language– Figurative language is language not meant to be

taken literally. – Helps to create vivid, clear mental pictures.– Think: What are you trying to SHOW the reader

2.Punctuating Lines– The reader continues reading when a line has no

punctuation at the end.– Create pause with commas, dashes, and

semicolons.– Create stops with end marks, like periods,

question marks, or exclamation points.

Poetry: Strategies for Writing

3. Paraphrase– Look up any dull or boring words and

replace them with familiar synonyms.– Use the language you use in everyday

speech in a new and interesting way.

4. Use your senses– Use sensory details to create imagery.

Create an experience for the reader.

Narrative Poetry

• Narrative Poetry:• Poetry that tells a story. Like a story, narrative

poetry has a plot, characters, and a setting. • Unlike a story, a narrative poem makes use of

sound devices, such as rhythm and repetition.

Literary Analysis: Form in Poetry

Form refers to the physical structure of the poem and the rules the poet follows to achieve a particular structure. – There are many different

forms of poetry including stanza, concrete poem, and haiku.

Stanza:– A group of lines that is

like a paragraph in prose. Most traditional English poems are divided into stanzas.

A word is dead When it is said, Some say.  I say it just Begins to live That day.

Rhythm in Poetry

Rhythm is a poem’s pattern of stressed (`) and unstressed (u) syllables.

It is the accents of the syllables in the words falling at regular intervals like the beat of music.

u ` u ` u `

– He came/upon/an age– “de dumm de dumm de dumm”

Meter in Poetry

The meter of a poem is its rhythmical pattern. The BEAT of poetry FEET is called its meter.

– Feet in poetry is single units of stressed (`) and unstressed (u) syllables

A poem’s meter is made up of what kind of feet are used and how many feet are in each line.

u ` u ` u `

– Beset/ by grief,/ by rage– This line of poetry has three feet. – Each foot has two syllables: an unstressed

followed by a stressed

Rhyme in Poetry

Rhyme is the repetition of a sound at the ends of nearby words– Example: age/rage; dame/same

Types of rhyme:– SINGLE RHYME- love/dove– DOUBLE RHYME- napping/tapping– TRIPLE RHYME- mournfully/scornfully

Sound Devices: Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia– The use of words

whose sounds suggest their meaning

– Example: sputter, drip, whisper, hiss, hoot, meow, murmur

Plop plop, fizz fizz,

oh, what a relief it is.

-Alka Seltzer

Sound Devices: Alliteration

Alliteration– Repeated

consonant sounds at the beginning of words

– Example: “Full fathom five

thy father lies” “In a summer

season, where soft was sun”

Often the sounds and meanings of the words combine to create a mood. – Here, repetition of b and

t stresses a feeling of urgency.

Hear the loud alarum bells--  Brazen bells!

What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!

-Edgar Allen Poe, "The Bells"

Sound Devices: Assonance

Assonance– The repetition of

the same vowel sound in different words

– Often creates near rhyme

– Lake Fate  Base  Fade

This selection uses the repetition of the e sound:

-Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep.

-Shakespeare

Sound Devices: Consonance

Consonance:– The repetition

of similar final consonant sounds that can be found anywhere in the words.

Example: – silken, sad,

uncertain, rustling

Add these titles to your mentor text pages:

Terms to help you:

For Jabberwocky:Portmanteau words: a word formed by combining two other words and their meanings.

Beautiful and Fabulous: Beautious

Verbs- action words

Adjectives- describing words

Dialogue- characters talking to each other

Foreshadowing- a hint about what is coming up