POETRYZomayra Jack

OBJECTIVE

What is poetry?

What are the various types of poems?

Literary techniques used in poems

Examples of literary techniques

Famous poets

Favorite poet and poem.

WHAT IS POETRY?

Is a form of expression.

A poets way to depict a picture or image, convey a message, or tell a story.

VARIOUS TYPES OF POEMS

ABC: every line begins with a letter of the alphabet

Epic: a long serious poem that tells a story about a heroic figure

Free Verse: the poet does not follow any

Name: makes a poem out of every letter in a persons name

Narrative: tells a story about a specific event or person

Sonnet: 14 line poem typically divided in 2 stanzas

LITERARY TECHNIQUES Alliteration: the repetition of the first letter in two or more

words.

Onomatopoeia: a word that spells out a sound effect.

Personification: giving human characteristics to an inanimate object.

Repetition: Repeating a word, phrase, line, or stanza multiple times within the poem.

Rhyme: repetition of an identical or similarly accented sound or sounds in a work. 

EXAMPLES OF LITERARY TECHNIQUES Alliteration: “Betty Botter bought some butter, but, she said,

the butter’s bitter; if I put it in my batter it will make my batter bitter, but a bit of better butter will make my batter better.”

Onomatopoeia: “water plops into pond splish-splash downhill”

Personification: “The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.”

Repetition: “’T is so much joy! ’T is so much joy!If I should fail, what poverty!”

Rhyme: “I'm nobody! Who are you?Are you nobody too?”

FAMOUS POETS

Maya Angelou

Gwendolyn Brooks

Robert Frost

Edgar Allan Poe

William Shakespeare

FAVORITE POET AN POEM

Sylvia Plath

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