 Poetry - A type of writing that uses

language to express imaginative and

emotional qualities instead of or in
addition to meaning.

 Poetry may be written as individual

poems or included in other written
forms as in dramatic poetry, hymns, or
song lyrics.
 Length
 Visual impressions
 Concentrated, intense language that makes
deliberate sound effects which can involve
rhythm, rhyme, or other sounds
 Written in lines and stanzas rather than
sentences or paragraphs
 (Deeper) Meaning is gleaned from
understanding the use of metaphor, symbol,
imagery, etc.
 Lines - a single line of poetry.
 Stanzas - a group of lines set off from the other lines in a
poem; the poetic equivalent of a paragraph in prose. In
traditional poems, the stanza usually contains a unit of
thought, much like a paragraph.
 Tercet
 The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave, until
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow

 Punctuation – used for emphasis

 Structure of images / symbols within the poem
 Watch for colors, patterns, figurative language

**DICTION
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tropical and
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 Narrative Poem is a
poem that tells a story.
Example:
T’was the Night Before Christmas
by Clement C. Moore
Verse Fable is a brief story told
in verse that illustrates a
moral and features human-like
animals, plants, objects, or
forces of nature.
A Boy Cries Wolf
Once there was a foolish boy
Whose job it was to guard some sheep
        In case a hungry wolf might come
        To pounce upon them in their sleep.
The owners told him: If a wolf
Should come, be sure to give a cry
        So we can come and save the sheep
        And give that wolf a swift goodbye.
The foolish boy grew bored one night,
And cried out Wolf! Wolf! just for jokes,
        And farmers came from far and wide,
        But left disgusted by his hoax.
But then at midnight that boy spied
A savage wolf about to strike,
         Wolf! Wolf! he screamed, but no one came
        And sheep and shepherd died alike.

MORAL: Those who enjoy making fools of others often

make fools of themselves.

from the book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary

Lyric Poetry portrays the
poet's own feelings, states
of mind, ideas, and
perceptions.
Acrostic poems use letter
patterns to create multiple
messages
Example:
When the first letters of lines
read downward form a
separate phrase or word.
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-Mrs. Chi, 2/08
 Metaphor is a figure of speech that
makes a comparison between two unlike
things, in which one thing becomes
another without the use of the words
like, as, than, or resembles.
Love is a rose.
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- Robert Burns
- Robert Burns
 Onomatopeia is the use of a
word or words whose sound
imitates its meaning.

Examples:
crackle, pop, fizz, click, chirp
Alliteration occurs when a series of
words in a row (or close to a row)
have the same first consonant sound.
For example, “She sells sea-shells
down by the sea-short” or “Peter
Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled
Peppers” are both alliterative
phrases.
 Rhythm is the actual
sound that results from
a line of poetry.
 Rhyme is the
placement of identical
or similar sounds at
the ends of lines or at
predictable locations
within lines.
 Poetry is separated into
lines on a page. Lines may
be based on the number of
metrical feet, or may
stress a rhyme pattern at
the ends of lines.
 Stanzas are groups of lines in a poem which
are named by the number of lines
included.

 Two lines is a couplet.

 Three lines is a triplet or tercet.
 Four lines is a quatrain.
 Five lines is a quintain or cinquain.
 Six lines is a sestet.
 Eight lines is an octet.