1. GRADE 7 POETRY

2. POETRY
A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)

3. POETRY FORM LINE - a group of words together on one line of the poem
STANZA - a group of lines arranged together
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.

4. POETRY TERMS

5. RHYME
Words which sound alike because they share the same ending sounds.
(A word always rhymes with itself.)
EXAMPLE
LAMP
STAMP
Activity: Rhyme group game

6. RHYME SCHEME
A rhyme scheme is a pattern of rhyme usually found at the end of lines of poetry.
Use the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually “see” the pattern. (See next slide for an example.)
Activity: Rhyme Scheme group game

7. SAMPLE RHYME SCHEME The Germ by Ogden Nash
A mighty creature is the germ,
Though smaller than the pachyderm.
His customary dwelling place
Is deep within the human race.
His childish pride he often pleases
By giving people strange diseases.
Do you, my poppet, feel infirm?
You probably contain a germ. a b c

8. ONOMATOPOEIA Words that imitate the sound they are naming. EXAMPLE
BUZZ

9. ALLITERATION Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
Activity: Alliteration group game

10. Repetition The repeating of a word or words in a line of poetry.
EXAMPLE
“The couple danced and danced.”

11. Literal Meaning Vs. Figurative Meaning
The literal meaning of a poem is exactly what it states. There is no hidden meaning.
The figurative meaning of a poem is hinted at by using figurative language such as similes, metaphors and personification.

12. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

13. SIMILE A comparison of two things using “like or as” EXAMPLE
“She is as beautiful as a sunrise.”

14. METAPHOR
A comparison of two unlike things without using the words “like” or “as”
EXAMPLE
“My brother is a pig when he eats.”

15. PERSONIFICATION Giving human-like qualities to an object or animal.
EXAMPLE
The daffodils danced in the wind.

16. OTHER POETIC DEVICES

17. IMAGERY Language that appeals to the senses.
Most images are visual, but they can also appeal to the senses of sound, touch, taste, or smell.
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather . . .
from “Those Winter Sundays”

18. Mood The feeling YOU get when you read a piece of writing EXAMPLE
Sad  Excited
Happy  Angry