1. Roses are red…violets are blue…
Poetry
Roses are red…violets are blue…

2. What is poetry?
Poetry is a type of literature in which words are chosen and arranged in specific ways to create an effect.

3. Poetry Basics: Speaker
Just as a story has a narrator, a poem has a speaker – the voice that talks to the reader. It is important to remember that the poet and the speaker are not necessarily the same.

4. Poetry Basics: Form
Form refers to the way that a poem is laid out on a page. Poetry is divided into lines and stanzas. A line is a group of words on a single line in a poem A stanza is a group of lines in a poem

5. Sound Devices

6. RHYME The repetition of sounds
My Beard
by Shel Silverstein
My beard grows to my toes,
I never wears no clothes,
I wraps my hair
Around my bare,
And down the road I goes.
Internal rhyme- Words INSIDE the sentence rhyme.
End rhyme- the last word on each line rhymes.

7. Rhyming Patterns Rhyme Scheme:
The pattern of rhyming lines in a poem. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme
Example:
Bid me to weep, and I will weep, (A)
While I have eyes to see; (B)
And having none, yet I will keep (A)
A heart to weep for thee.(B)

8. The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem.
Rhythm
The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem.

9. Examples: growl, hiss, pop, boom, crack, ptthhhbbb.
Onomatopoeia
Words that spell out sounds; words that sound like what they mean.
Examples: growl, hiss, pop, boom, crack, ptthhhbbb.

10. ALLITERATION
The repetition of the initial letter or sound in two or more words in a line.
“tongue-twisters”.
Example: How much dew would a dewdrop drop if a dewdrop did drop dew?

11. (All share the long “a” sound.)
ASSONANCE
Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of poetry.
Lake Fate Base Fade
(All share the long “a” sound.)

12. CONSONANCE Similar to alliteration EXCEPT . . .
The repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words
“silken, sad, uncertain, rustling . . “

13. Tone/Mood Tone is the author’s attitude towards a subject
Mood is how the poem makes you feel