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Poetry You!

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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. --Edgar Allan Poe Poetry: the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. --Robert Frost I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg

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A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)

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Poetic License License or liberty taken by a poet, writer, or other artist to deviate from rule, form, logic, or fact, in order to produce a desired effect.

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Two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem.

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Figurative Language and Poetic Devices Tools of the Trade

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Comparing 2 things using like or as I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of its mouth. He didnt fight. He hadnt fought at all. He hung a grunting weight, battered and venerable and homely. Here and there his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper, and its pattern of darker brown was like wallpaper: shapes like full-blown roses stained and lost through age.

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Stating one thing is another My family lives inside a medicine chest: Dad is the super-size band aid, strong and powerful but not always effective in a crisis. Mom is the middle-size tweezer, which picks and pokes and pinches. David is the single small aspirin on the third shelf, sometimes ignored. Muffin, the sheep dog, is a round cotton ball, stained and dirty, that pops off the shelf and bounces in my way as I open the door. And I am the wood and glue which hold us all together with my love.

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A figure of speech in which nonliving things are given human qualities or human form. Examples: Hunger sat shivering on the road Flowers danced about the lawn. Proud Words By Carl Sandburg Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots, they walk off proud; they cant hear you calling Look out how you use proud words.

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A figure of speech that give force or intensity to what we say or write; it is exaggeration! It can be serious, but hyperbole is often used in a humorous way. EXAMPLES: Im so hungry, I could eat a horse! She is older than the hills. "she broke a chisel trying to get it off last night!" Johnny, from Prescott Middle School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA "Marilyn Manson freaked out when he saw her!" Nizam, from Bukit Panjang Gov't H. S., Singapore "she has to use a sandblaster to get it off at night." Margaret "that I haven't seen her real face for years..." Nivedita "when she smiles her cheeks fall off." Ed "by the time she gets it all on, it's time to take it off!" Josh W. "at night she has to get the paint scraper to take it off." Beth Atkins Courtesy of www.worsleyschool.net My sister uses so much makeup

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Words that imitate the sound they are naming Buzz BOO M Chirp

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Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

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Repetition of vowel sounds Assonance is used to convey and reinforce some meaning or to link ideas in the poem. Tune/food Cacophony Sharp, hissing words Ungainly, ghastly, gaunt

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Occurrence of same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words Ex: cat/hat, desire/fire, observe/deserve

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His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy Theres vomit on his sweater already, moms spaghetti Hes nervous, but on the surface he looks calm and ready To drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting

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Internal rhyme Rhymes inside the same line External rhyme Rhymes that are the last words Slant rhyme Inexact rhymes: dizzy/lazy

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Pattern of rhymes used in a poem usually marked by letters abab aabb abcb

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The Germ by Ogden Nash A mighty creature is the germ, Though smaller than the pachyderm. His customary dwelling place Is deep within the human race. His childish pride he often pleases By giving people strange diseases. Do you, my poppet, feel infirm? You probably contain a germ. aabbccaaaabbccaa

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Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

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The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.

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Recurrences of stressed and unstressed syllables at equal intervals, similar to meter.

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Syllabic meter Counting the number of syllables in each line Foot Meter counting the number of feet per line

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Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

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Iambic pentameter is a meter in poetry. It refers to a line consisting of five iambic feet. The word "pentameter" simply means that there are five feet in the line;meterpoetryiambicfeetpentameter An iambic foot is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. We could write the rhythm like this: daDUM A line of iambic pentameter is five of these in a row: daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM We can notate this with a u' mark representing an unstressed syllable and a '/' mark representing a stressed syllable. In this notation a line of iambic pentameter would look like this: u/u/u/u/u/ To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells We can notate the scansion of this as follows:scansion u / u / u / u / u / To swell the gourd,and plump the ha-zel shells

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iambic pentameter (5 iambs, 10 syllables) unstressed+stressed That time | of year | thou mayst | in me | behold trochaic tetrameter (4 trochees, 8 syllables) Tell me | not in | mournful | numbers anapestic trimeter (3 anapests, 9 syllables) And the sound | of a voice | that is still dactylic hexameter (6 dactyls, 12 syllables;) This is the | forest pri | meval, the | murmuring | pine and the | hemlocks

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1. Shall I compare thee to a summers day? 2. Laugh at the stupid, but cry for the weaker one 3. Beat the clear and sunny water

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provides an answer to question, What is the work about?

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The writers attitude toward the work. May be playful, formal, intimate, angry, serious, ironic, baffled, outraged, tender, serene, depressed, etc.

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Then, without warning, a knock came at the door.

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Literary form Tragedy, epic, comedy, novel, essay, lyric poem, sonnet, etc

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Language that appeals to the senses. Many images are visual, but they can also appeal to the senses of sound, touch, taste, or smell. then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather.. from Those Winter Sundays By Robert Hayden

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SYMBOLISM When a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself also represents, or stands for, something else. = Innocence = America = Peace

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Blank verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. Shakespeare wrote most of his plays in blank verse Free verse Unrhymed poetry with lines of varying length with no specific patterns

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Rhyming stanzas made up of 2 lines

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Poets repeat words and sounds for effect or emphasis. I'm nobody! Who are You? I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too? Then there's a pair of us-don't tell! They'd banish us you know. How dreary to be somebody! how public, like a frog. To tell your name livelong day To an admiring bog! Emily Dickinson 1830-1885

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Poets repeat words and sounds for effect or emphasis. I'm nobody! Who are You? I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too? Then there's a pair of us-don't tell! They'd banish us you know. How dreary to be somebody! how public, like a frog. To tell your name livelong day To an admiring bog! Emily Dickinson 1830-1885

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A lyric poem that is 14 lines long

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A Japanese poem written in three lines, usually about nature. Five Syllables Seven Syllables Five Syllables The soaring sea gulls Against a summer blue sky Gliding on the breeze. By Russell Sills, Grade 9

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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. `'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door - Only this, and nothing more.' Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore - For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore - Nameless here for evermore.

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Tercets are any three lines of poetry, whether as a stanza or as a poem, rhymed or unrhymed, metered or unmetered. The haiku is a tercet poem. Another common tercet is: Enclosed tercet- a triplet that rhymes "aba". I am a yellow dog who wishes he was a purple-spotted frog.

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