1. Reading Poetry
Mrs. Kaminicki

2. Poetry
Literature that uses the sounds, rhythms, and meanings of words to describe the world.

3. Poetry Elements Lines - groups of words Stanzas - organized
units of lines
- work together
to express one key idea

4. Poetry Elements Stanza Break - blank line - signals one stanza
has ended a new
stanza is beginning

5. Poetry Elements repeat at regular intervals - reminds readers and
Refrain - a line or group of lines that
repeat at regular intervals
- reminds readers and
listeners of a key idea,
image, or event
Variations - changing one or more
words with each repetition

7. Sound Devices and unstressed syllables in words.
Rhythm - a beat created by stressed
and unstressed syllables in
words.
Meter - a pattern of rhythm.
Feet - measures meter in poetry.

8. Each foot consists of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. This down-up, down-up rhythmic pattern fits the subject of a boy swinging on the branches of trees.

9. Sound Devices consonant sounds at the ends of words. *Tin and Pin
Rhyme - the repetition of vowel and
consonant sounds at the
ends of words.
*Tin and Pin
Rhyme Scheme - a particular pattern
that rhymes follow.

11. Sound Device
Alliteration - the repetition of consonant sounds in the beginnings of words.

12. Sound Device
Onomatopoeia - the use of words that imitate sounds.

14. CAN YOU FIND the Examples of Onomatopoeia?

15. SIMILE in which one thing is compared to another unlike thing by using
A form of comparison
in which one thing is
compared to another
unlike thing by using
specific words of
comparison like LIKE,
AS, and RESEMBLES.

17. METAPHOR
Compares two things, doesn't use like or as

18. PERSONIFICATION
•Speaking of something that is not human as if it had human abilities and human reactions.