1. Poetry
Ch 6 p. 402

2. rhythm
The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables

3. What is rhythm

4. Elegy- For My Grandmother
This lovely flower fell to seed; A
Work gently, sun and rain; B
She held it as her dying creed A
That she would grow again. B

5. When it rhymes perfectly it is called

6. Exact rhyme

7. What gives poems a musical quality.

8. rhyme
It gives a musical quality to a poem.
Think Sam McGee ballad

9. exact rhyme/approximate rhyme
This lovely flower fell to seed;
Work gently, sun and rain;
She held it as her dying creed
That she would grow again. A B

10. What is it called when it does not rhyme perfectly as in a rhyme with orange.

11. Approximate, slant, or near rhyme.

12. Approximate, near, slant rhyme
This lovely flower fell to seed;
Work gently, sun and rain;
She held it as her dying creed
That she would grow again.
Orange—door hinge
Porridge

13. What is the
The regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Heartbeat. Tu Tum
Rhythm is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

14. meter

15. Couplet- 2 consecutive lines that rhyme
The panther is like a leopard,
Except it hasn’t been peppered. A
Rhyme scheme is always AA
BB CC DD EE FF

16. Couplet The panther is like a leopard, Except it hasn’t been peppered.

17. Internal rhyme- inside a line
“While I nodded nearly napping
Suddenly there came a tapping
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.”
Assonance- the repetition of a vowel sound.
There are strange things done in the midnight sun

18. End rhyme
End rhyme at the end of a line.

19. Free verse It does not rhyme, but it usually has rhythmic elements.
Think Paul Revere’s Ride

20. Free verse
Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full dazzling. (alliteration)
Give me juicy autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard
Give me a field where the unmowed grass grows.
Give me an arbor, give me the trellised grape

21. Refrain/repetition (chorus)
Give me
Give me…

22. alliteration The repetition of a consonant
Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full dazzling.
Green, grow, great, ground, grass, giving
Brown, bark, big, bent, branches

23. assonance The repetition of a vowel sound Napping, tapping, rapping
Tree, bee, see, harmony,

24. onomatopoeia
Refers to the use of sound that imitates or suggests the meaning of a word
Boom, burp, zing,
Crack, buzz, swoosh, whisper
Chirp
Rustle,
Sizzle
Hiss, boom, kaboom, bang, zap, roar,

25. Ballad- Narrative (old songs from Middle Ages in England)
Songlike poem
Often sad, about betrayal, loss or death
Simple rhyme and words
Refrain
Steady rhythm or meter
Ex. “The Cremation of Sam McGee”

26. Epic Long, narrative poem Hero Elegant, formal language
Ex. Beowulf, The Odyssey, The Iliad

27. Narrative Poem
Tells a story
Ex. The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

28. Lyric poem-emotional
Expresses feelings; it does not tell a story

29. Ode
An ode is a long, lyric poem that usually praises one thing written in dignified, serious, formal language.

30. sonnet
A 14 line lyric poem A, b, a, b C ,d

31. Sonnet/rhyming couplets
Reminiscing
by Ralph Cortez
Watermelons were so much sweeter then,
When boys were the stuff of super men,
And summers seemed so much longer too,
With nothing pending and nothing due.
We were swordsmen-swashbuckling heroes.
Eternal victors-never zeroes;
Second basemen and clean-up hitters;
Forever winners, never quitters
Play was a ritual in those days,
To go on magical mind forays,
To play the game with aplomb and ease,
To venture forth when and where we'd please.
We would feign death, and then rise up again.
Watermelons were so much sweeter then.

32. simile A comparison using like or as
The tree is like a crooked, old man.

33. metaphor
A direct comparison
The crooked, old man tree

34. Personification Giving human traits to nonhuman things Ex.
The tree’s hair fell to the ground.

35. Main idea of a poem? Main idea- underlying meaning Think Like a Tree
Soak up the sun Affirm life's magic Be graceful in the wind Stand tall after a storm Feel refreshed after it rains Grow strong without notice

36. Critical detail Essential, important information
Date of birth and death
Famous for
(lifeguard story)

37. Direct quote vs. paraphrase
Think Like a Tree
“Soak up the sun Affirm life's magic Be graceful in the wind Stand tall after a storm Feel refreshed after it rains Grow strong without notice”
This is about learning a life lesson by following the example of a tree.

38. 20 e.c. points due 5/2
Google: California State Testing released questions. Click on 8th grade language arts. Or
go to ccms.ccusd.org
My homework site.