1. Poetry

2. GOAL
TO UNDERSTAND THE BASIC ELEMENTS OF POETRY IDENTIFY THEM IN “AFTERNOON ON A HILL”

3. Story Poem Story versus Poem Sentences. Lines. Paragraphs Stanzas
Narrator
Speaker

4. Lines
When speaking about poetry we refer to each row of words as lines—not as sentences.

5. Stanzas
When we talk about a group of lines in a poem we refer to them as a stanza—not a paragraph.

6. Speaker
The voice that is “talking” to the reader in a poem is known as a speaker—not a narrator.

7. Poetry Vocabulary
Repetition: the use of a word, phrase, line, or sound more than once. Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words. Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds in words that don’t end with the same consonant.

8. Poetry Vocabulary
Rhyme Scheme: is the pattern that the end-rhyming words follow. To identify rhyme scheme, circle each rhyming word and assign it a letter. Each word that rhymes gets the same letter.
When you move to another stanza, continue with the next letters of the alphabet. A A B A C C D C