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1 Learning About Poetry

2 Sound Devices Figurative Language Sensory Language
Elements of Poetry Sound Devices Figurative Language Sensory Language

3 Sound Devices Sound Devices add a musical quality to poetry. Poets use these devices to enhance a poem’s mood and meaning. Rhyme Rhythm Repetition Onomatopoeia Alliteration

4 Rhyme Rhyme is the repetition of sounds at the end of words, such as pool, mule and fool.

5 Rhythm Rhythm is the beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables: The cat sat on the mat.

6 Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
Repetition Repetition is the use of any element of language—a sound, word , phrase, clause or sentence—more than once. Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the Way

7 Onomatopoeia Onomatopoeia is the use of words that imitate sounds: crash, bang, hiss, splat.

8 Alliteration Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginning of words: Lovely, Lonely, Lights

9 Figurative Language Figurative Language is writing or speech that is not meant to be taken literally. Writers use these figures of speech to state ideas in a vivid and imaginative way. Metaphors Similes Personification Hyperbole

10 The snow was a white blanket over the town.
Metaphors Metaphors describe one thing as if it were something else. They often point out a similarity between two unlike things. The snow was a white blanket over the town.

11 Similes Similes use like or as to compare two apparently unlike things and show similarities between the two: She is as slow as a turtle.

12 Personification Personification gives human qualities to something that is not human. The wind blew angrily during the storm.

13 I am so hungry I could eat a horse!
Hyperbole Hyperbole is an obvious and intentional exaggeration not meant to be taken literally. I am so hungry I could eat a horse!

14 Sensory Language Sensory Language is writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the five senses: sight, sound, smell, taste and touch Sensory Language creates word pictures or imagery.

15 Forms of Poetry Narrative Lyric Concrete Haiku Limerick Free Verse

16 Narrative Narrative poetry tells a story in verse and often have similar elements to a short story, such as plot and characters.

17 Lyric Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in highly musical verse.

18 Concrete Concrete poems are shaped to look like their subjects. The poet arranges the lines to create a picture on the page.

19 Haiku Haiku is a three line Japanese verse form. The first and third lines each have five syllables and the second line has seven. Balancing in red Carefully, so not to fall A lady with grace

20 Limerick Limericks are humorous, rhyming, five-line poems with a specific rhythmic pattern and rhyme scheme. There once was a young girl named Jill Who was scared by the sight of a drill She brushed every day So her dentist would say, “Your teeth are so perfect; no bill.” by Bruce Lansky

21 Free Verse Free verse is poetry not written in a regular, rhythmical pattern, or meter. The poet is free to write lines of any length or with any number of stresses, or beats.


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