Poetry

Slam Poetry

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Slam Poetry is...

• Slamming poetry books against a wall to create rhythmic sounds

• Yelling SLAM at the beginning of each line in a poem

• A slam is the competitive art of performance poetry.

• A form of Poetry performance with no audience

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The boy ran like the wind

• simile

• metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

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The moon was a ghostly galleon

• simile

• metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

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Two words that end with identical sounds

• Alliteration

• Rhyme

• Simile

• Metaphor

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The snowdrops nodded their head in the breeze

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Simile

• Alliteration

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She felt as warm as toast

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

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Life is a roller coaster

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Personification

• Metaphor

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The wind laughed through the branches of the tree

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Alliteration

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A group of lines which form a division of a poem

• Rhyme

• Metaphor

• Stanza

• Personifcation

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When a word or group of words is repeated for effect

• Rhyme

• Simile

• Rhyme

• Repetition

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Words are used in quick succession and begin with letters belonging to the same sound group

• Simile

• Alliteration

• Metaphor

• Words

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When the arrangement of words creates an audible pattern or beat when read out loud

• Alliteration

• Rhythm

• Personification

• Metaphor

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Anapestic

• stressed syllable followed by stressed syllable

• 2 unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable

• Unstressed syllable followed by unstressed syllable 

• 3 unstressed syllables followed by 1 unstressed syllable

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trochaic

• Stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

• unstressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

• 2 stressed syllables followed by an unstressed syllable

• unstressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable

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Iambic

• 1 stressed syllable followed by a 1 stressed syllables

• Unstressed syllable followed by 2 stressed syllables

• stressed syllable followed by a unstressed syllable

• Unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable

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Dactylic

• 1 stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed syllables

• unstressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed syllables

• 1 stressed syllable followed by 3 unstressed syllables

• 2 stressed syllable followed by 2 unstressed syllables

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Spondaic

• 3 stressed syllables

• 1 stressed syllable

• 2 stressed syllables

• 1.5 stressed syllables