Praxis II 5038 - Poetry and Poems

Prose Poetry

• Aurora Leigh
• four-line stanza of alternating tetrameter and trimeter lines
• a rhythmic, image-laden, figurative and narrative form
• method of building vocabulary by integrating new words with prior knowledge

Haiku

• 3-line, unrhyming poem
• builds a foundation for future learning
• word with multiple meanings, one of which is defined as the reverse of one of its other meanings
• Aurora Leigh

Epic poetry

• a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated
• has a moral
• lengthy, narrative featuring heroic deeds
• uses very few bound morphemes

Slant rhyme

• similar but not identical sounds
• oral tradition, superstition
• small groups of students gather together to discuss a piece of literature in depth
• prosody, pitch, volume, and intonation

Exact rhyme

• lyric poem in the form of an address to a particular subject
• repetition of the same stressed vowel sound
• History and Theological Studies
• Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine

writing log

• contradictory terms combined
• records events only
• wrote classic Haikus
• ability to modify one's language according to audience and purpose

writing journal

• The Joy Luck Club
• Students write down responses to a question or prompt given to them and quickly share their responses with the class
• formal discussion, based on a text, in which the leader asks open-ended questions
• records events and reflection

Double entry journal

• form of understatement in which an affirmation is made by means of a negation
• attempts to persuade
• stories in which a well-intentioned character takes instructions too literally
• contains direct quotes in one column and "thinking options" in another adjacent column

Fable

• a rhetorical figure which uses a part of a whole to allude to the whole
• Transcendentalism
• has a moral
• Humanities and the Arts

Fairy tale

• eight-line poem that repeats entire lines
• students become the teacher in small group reading sessions; summarizing, question generating, clarifying, and predicting
• a type of fantasy
• substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant