1. Poetry Unit Review for Test
English 7-Unit 5
Poetry Unit
Review for Test

2. Poetry
Poets use words, rhythm and sounds to convey feelings and ideas.

3. Poetry Basics Form Line Stanzas
The way words and lines are laid out on a page
Line
Main unit of a poem
Stanzas
Lines arranged in groups
Like a paragraph in prose
A separate emotion or idea

4. Forms of Poetry conventional or traditional form irregular or open
follows fixed rules
Such as a set number of lines or a repeating pattern of rhythm or rhyme
irregular or open
may have rhyme, but their shapes and pattern my be unusual
free verse
an open form
has a rhythm more like every day speech
does not have regular patterns of rhyme

5. Sound Devices Give poems a musical quality Can also create a mood
Emphasizes important ideas or words

6. rhyme
The repetition of sounds at the end of words, as in me and see

7. rhythm
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line

8. repetition
The use of a word, phrase, or line more than once

9. alliteration
The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
Example
twenty tame tigers

10. Imagery and Figurative Language
Language that appeals to the five senses
Figurative Language
Uses creative comparisons help readers picture ordinary things in new ways

11. Types of Figurative Language
Simile
A comparison between two unlike things, using the word like or as
Example-He’s white as spilled milk.
metaphor
A comparison between two unlike things that does not contain the word like or as

12. personification
A description of an object, an animal, a place, or an ideas as if it were human or had human qualities

13. Types of Poems
lyric poem
Haiku
Limerick
Humorous poem

14. mood
Mood is the audience emotions and feelings as generated by a work or piece

15. speaker
The speaker is not always the author of the poem.

16. rhyme scheme The pattern of rhyme at the ends of lines in a poem.
You can track the rhyme by assigning a letter to each line.
The first line gets the letter a.

18. omomatopoeia the use of words that sound like their meanings Example
swish

19. Context clues