Poetry Intro

Poetry Unit
Communications 24-25

By Daniel Goodwin

Word Cloud

What are some words that come to mind when you hear the word "poetry"?

Poetry

​Robert Frost once said, “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

Stanza

A stanza is a grouped set of lines. A stanza is usually separated from other lines with a blank line

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Line break

A line break happens when one line ends and another begins. They are very important in poetry, because they cause the reader to pause between the last word of one line and the first word of the next line.

Lines

A line is just a group of words arranged in a row.

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Multiple Choice

The author of a poem is called the

• writer

• author

• poet

• speaker

Rhyme scheme

A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other.

What do you think the rhyme scheme of this poem is?

Multiple Choice

What is the pattern of a rhyme a poem follows called?

• Rhyme.

• Rhyme scheme.

• Rhythm.

• Alliteration.

We will begin our exploration of poetry structure by learning about...

stanzas

lines

line breaks

rhyme scheme
and the use of figurative language
>>How does connotation and the use of literary/poetic devices strengthen or change a text??

Rhyme scheme

A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other.

Dr. Suess Video 1 (original)
Dr. Suess Video 2 (1Fish)

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Rhyme Scheme- Each new sound at the end of a line is given a letter, starting with "A," then "B," and so on.
If an end sound repeats the end sound of an earlier line, it gets the same letter as the earlier line.

​A new letter of the alphabet is used for each line that introduces new rhyme.

The next stanza has a rhyme scheme of cdccd. None of the end words in the second stanza rhyme with the end words in the first stanza.

1. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, A

2. And sorry I could not travel both B

3. And be one traveler, long I stood A

4. And looked down one as far as I could A

5. To where it bent in the undergrowth B

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6. Then took the other, as just as fair, C

7. And having perhaps the better claim, D

8. Because it was grassy and wanted wear, C

9. Though as for that the passing there C

10. Had worn them really about the same, D​

Multiple Choice

What is the pattern of a rhyme a poem follows called?

• Meter

• Rhyme scheme.

• Rhythm.

Multiple Choice

What are groups of lines in a poem that provide a natural break?

• lines

• Rhyme Scheme

• Stanzas

​Let's review FIGURATIVE Language

• S- Simile

• H- Hyperbole

• A- Alliteration

• M-Metaphor

• P-Personification

• O-Onomatopoeia

• O-Oxymoron

Multiple Choice

What is the use of words to create pictures in your mind, appealing to the five senses?

• onomatopoeia

• optical illusion

• imagery

Multiple Choice

The wind whispered through the dark and gloomy forest. What is being personified?

• The forest

• The wind

• A person whispering

Multiple Choice

The snow is a white blanket.

• hyperbole

• alliteration

• metaphor

• simile

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences contains a metaphor?

• The boy was upset at himself.

• The boy was a tornado of emotion.

• The boy said he’d die of shame.

• The boy did not like what he’d done.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences contains a simile?

• The thunder boomed and rumbled.

• The thunder growled, and the windows shook.

• The thunder growled like a group of grizzly bears.

Multiple Choice

Both similes and metaphors ________.

• compare things

• use the words “like” and “as”

• make a story less vivid

​Types of Poetry

​Poetry has many shapes and forms to it much like art!

You can rhyme or not. Make it long or not.

Lets look at historically famous types of poems and what types of figurative language they use!

Multiple Choice

In ancient times, lyric poems were created to be __________.

• read

• sung

• explained

• imagined

Prose= follows standard rules including sentence structure (different).

Lyric Poems

Narrative Poems​

Usually short poems that express personal feelings. Sometimes they sound like they could be written to go with music even though they are not written to be sung. Emily Dickinson's works are "lyrical".

Tells stories in verse and can be short or long. ​ Famous narrative poems would include "The Raven", by Edgar Allen Poe.

Multiple Choice

The people along the sand

All turn and look one way.

They turn their back on the land.

They look at the sea all day.

The rhyme scheme of the poem is ________________.

• ABAB

• AABB

Poetry is written in lines and stanzas (groups of lines).

A narrative poem written to be sung. Typically short and has a refrain (repeated stanza). Convey strong emotions such as love or righteous anger.

Can be written about anything but usually is based on folklore or popular legend. "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid. "I Just Can't Wait to Be King" from The Lion King.

A Ballad​

An Epic

A long narrative poem. Usually about a serious subject such as events that are important to a nation or culture. Many feature heroes who are larger than life. Examples would be "Iliad" and "Odyssey" about the Trojan War and its heroes. ​

Multiple Choice

Often a poet will repeat certain words, sounds, or even syllables in a poem. This device is called

• alliteration

• rhyme

• onomatopoeia

• repetition

Multiple Choice

I am who I am.

I do not care.

You are who you are.

Let them all stare.

• This poem has 1 line

• This poem has 2 lines

• This poem has 3 lines

• This poem has 4 lines

Multiple Choice

A fourteen line lyric poem that has a rhyme scheme according to its type.

• Epic

• Narrative Poem

• Sonnet

• Limerick

Multiple Choice

Poetry that does not have a set rhyming pattern.

• patterned

• free verse

• rhymed

• humorous

Multiple Choice

Everyone, young or old,

Needs someone to listen

As their stories are told.

The difference is yours to make.

A minute from your busy day

Is all it would take.

Take a minute and lend an ear.

Listen intently

To what you hear.

• This poem has 2 stanzas

• This poem has 3 stanzas

• This poem has 4 stanzas

A Sonnet​

Free Verse

Traditionally has fourteen lines of ten syllables each. Some sonnets vary from this, but they all have specific rhyme scheme and number of syllables per line. Examples would be from William Shakespeare's sonnets. ​

Poems with lines that do not rhyme. Example of this:

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

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Multiple Choice

What is personification?

• A person emphasizing something in a poem.

• An object or animal taking on human characteristics.

• tells about a person's life.

• uses metaphors to describe a person.

Multiple Choice

What figurative language is used in this sentence?

"The boy was a statue when the train passed him by"

• simile

• personification

• metaphor

The next 15 slides are in our paper packets

Please begin by copying the definitions on pages one and two into your composition notebooks. When finished, review the process for reading poetry!