Intro to Poetry

What is Poetry?

What makes a poem a poem? ​

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Personification

• Giving human characteristics to nonliving things

• Extreme exaggeration

• comparing two unlike things using "like" or "as"

• Repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words

Repetition

While I nodded, nearly napping
She sells seashells down by the seashore
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary

I caught a tremendous fish
and held him beside the boat
half out of water, with my hook
fast in a corner of his mouth.
He didn't fight.
He hadn't 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

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​Imagery

a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, using "like" or "as" Ex: Crazy like a fox

​​Simile

​Repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words in a sentence. Ex: Crafty crimson cats carefully catching crusty crawfish

​​Alliteration

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exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally for the purpose of making a point. Ex: It's a million degrees outside!

​​Hyperbole

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;

Close to the sun in lonely lands,

Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;

He watches from his mountain walls,

And like a thunderbolt he falls.

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The Eagle