1. Poetic Devices, Poetic Form, Poetic Sound
Poetry
6th Grade ELA
Poetic Devices, Poetic Form, Poetic Sound

2. Poetic Devices Form What a poem looks like Stanza
A group of lines in a poem
Similar to a paragraph in essay writing
Line
Phrases or words in a stanza
Couplet
Two lines in a poem that state a complete idea (usually following rhyme scheme aa)

3. Poetic Devices
Mood
The way the poem or story makes the reader feel
Tone
The author or poet's attitude towards the poem or story

4. Poetic Devices
Connotation
Emotions and associations connected to a word
Positive, Negative, or Neutral
Denotation
The dictionary or literal definition of a word

5. Poetic Device Figurative Language
It can be found in literature and poetry where the writing appeals to the senses. It can do this by giving a word or phrase a specific meaning that may be different than the literal definition. Sometimes figurative language compares two things in such a way that you find the comparison interesting and descriptive.
What are some examples of figurative language that we already know?

6. Poetic Device Juxtaposition
A literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts.
A writer can make readers sense “goodness” in a particular character by placing him or her side by side to a character that is predominantly “evil”. Consequently, goodness in one character is highlighted by evil in the other character.

7. Poetic Form
Narrative or Ballad - is a poem that tells a story. A ballad does not tell the reader what’s happening, but rather shows the reader what’s happening, describing each crucial moment in the trail of events.
Haiku - A traditional Japanese haiku is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression.

8. Poetic Form
Free Verse
Poetry that does not have a regular rhyme scheme or pattern
Limerick
A popular form in children’s verse, the limerick is often comical. Composed of five lines, the limerick adheres to a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA) and bouncy rhythm, making it easy to memorize.

9. Enhances a poem's mood and meaning
Poetic Sound
Enhances a poem's mood and meaning

10. Poetic Sound Rhyme Scheme
The pattern of lines used in a poem aa, bb, aa or a, b, a, b
Internal Rhyme
Rhyme that occurs within a line
End Rhyme
Rhyme that occurs at the end of a line

11. Poetic Sound Rhyme - Catch a Little Rhyme by Eve Merriam, 1916 - 1992
Once upon a time I caught a little rhyme I set it on the floor but it ran right out the door I chased it on my bicycle but it melted to an icicle I scooped it up in my hat but it turned into a cat
I caught it by the tail but it stretched into a whale I followed it in a boat but it changed into a goat When I fed it tin and paper it became a tall skyscraper Then it grew into a kite and flew far out of sight...

12. Poetic Sound
Refrain
A word, phrase, line or group of lines repeated regularly in a poem or song usually at the end of a stanza.
Repetition
The repeated use of a word, phrase, sound or pattern
Rhythm
stressed and unstressed syllables in a word put in an order to create a pattern or beat

13. Poetic Sound Saying Things Rhythmically
One of the biggest challenges for new poets is learning to say things rhythmically.
For example, let’s say I wrote the following line:
My mother said I should go to the store - (my MOTH-er SAID i should GO to the STORE)
If we look at which syllables are stressed and which ones aren’t, we’ll see that the rhythm doesn’t stay the same for the entire line.
However, we can easily rewrite the line like this:
My mother sent me to the store - (my MOTH-er SENT me TO the STORE)

14. Poetic Sound Assonance
The repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds in words that are close together
The cat sat back or lake ate
Alliteration
the occurrence of the same consonant sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
Sally sold seashells by the sea shore

15. Sources https://www.poets.org/