1. Poetry Elements
What are the key elements of poetry? What are the major types of poetry?

2. Haiku
Poem with syllables

3. In the Blink In the blink of time You will grow away fast
Amazingly wise

4. Limerick Short five line humorous poem
They often contain onomatopoeia, hyperboles, and idioms.
They typically contain one couplet and one triplet

5. Limerick A flea and a fly in a flue
Were caught, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee."
"Let us fly," said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
-Anonymous

6. Narrative Poem Poetry that tells a story with plot and characters
“The Night Before Christmas”
“Barbara Frietchie”

7. Lyric Poem
Poetry of a single speaker
Sonnets, songs, odes

8. Concrete Poetry
Poetry that takes the shape of the poems theme or tone

9. Free Verse Poetry
Poetry that doesn’t rhyme

10. Stanzas Like paragraphs, but for poetry Sections of a poem
Typically have the same number of lines throughout an entire poem

11. Rhyme
Repetition of sounds
Brown, clown
Sun, bun

12. Rhyme Scheme
A pattern
Ababab
Aabbccdd
aabba

13. Meter
The beat of the poem
T-t-bbbb-t-t-bbbb

16. Couplet
A pair of rhymed lines

17. form
The shape and number of stanzas of a poem

18. Sensory Language
Language that appeals to one of the senses

19. Imagery or figurative language (FIG)
Alliteration
Hyperbole---an exaggeration
Idiom--an expression that means something different from what it says
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
onomatopoeia

21. What is a Poetry Anthology?
An anthology is a collection of poetry…
Sometimes Poetry Anthologies are poems written by the same poet
Sometimes, Poetry Anthologies are poems by different poets collected together by an editor…the poems typically share something in common (type, tone, theme)

22. How do you determine the tone?
TONE=emotion/attitude
Alliteration=humor=tone
Word choice===emotion=tone
Shape or form===emotion=tone
Punctuation === emotion=tone

23. How do you determine theme of a poem?
Lesson learned?
Main idea….more likely
Typical themes include: bravery, friendship, loss, inspiration, war, death, birth, hard times, fun times, celebration, specific moments in time, animals, objects, people, beginnings, endings