1. For all your poetry needs!
Poetry terminology
For all your poetry needs!

2. Day 1: Referencing Poetry
Today we are going to learn 4 terms that will help us to talk about poetry
Couplet
Quatrain
Verse
Stanza

3. Big and Little BIG: LITTLE:
Stanza (#18): think of it as a chunk, or a group of lines. Look at the Poetry Intro packet: what would be a good example of a stanza?
LITTLE:
Verse (#7): a line of poetry. Look at the Poetry Intro packet: what would be a good example of a verse?

4. 2,4,6,8 Who do we appreciate? TWO:
Couplet (#3): Think of a couple: how many people are in a couple? Shakespeare is most famous for his use of couplets in his sonnets:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

5. How many QUARTERS in a Dollar?
FOUR:
Quatrain (#4): A stanza or poem of four lines.
THE TYGER By William Blake
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?

6. BE THOROUGH
Answer the following questions in short paragraphs: be reflective, thorough, and thoughtful, making sure to cite specifics ex: “I struggled with finding the rising action in the narrative poem…”
Do you feel that you really understand how to distinguish between narrative and lyric poetry?
Why might it have been helpful to be able to collaborate with your neighbors in your analysis of the poems?

7. Terms for TODAY  Point of View (#13):
First Person: character in the story
Third Person Limited: tells about the other characters, but limits info about what ONE character sees/feels.
Third Person Omniscient: knows and describes what ALL CHARACTERS are thinking/feeling.
(ADD THIS) Third Person Objective: (camera’s eye) tells what can be seen, but does not know what characters are thinking/feeling.

8. Rhyme Time
Rhyme (#15): the similarity of ending sounds existing between two words. (Shoe/blue, red/bed).
Rhyme Scheme (#16): the sequence in which the rhyme occurs. (A Shakespeare sonnet rhyme scheme is ababcdcdefefgg)
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? a
Thou art more lovely and more temperate. b
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, a
And summer's lease hath all too short a date. b
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, c
And often is his gold complexion dimmed; d
And every fair from fair sometime declines, c
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed; d
But thy eternal summer shall not fade, e
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, f
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, e
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st. f
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, g
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. g

9. Here is what you should have filled in by now…
Narrative Poetry
Point of View
Lyric Poetry
Repetition
Couplet
Rhyme
Quatrain
Rhyme Scheme
Verse
Simile
Imagery
Stanza
Metaphor
Personification
For Poetry!!!

10. LOUD NOISES! Onomatopoeia (#5):
When words are used
to imitate sounds.
“Tick-tock”
Swoosh! (the sound that Kobe Bryant makes on a DAILY basis )
Alliteration (#8): the repetition of initial consonant sounds.
Assonance (#9): The repetition of vowel sounds. (Usually in the middle of the word)

11. “I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse!”
Hyperbole (#6)
An EXAGGERATION or OVERSTATEMENT
“I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse!”
The end! You should have all of your words filled in now! I’ll bet this is the best handout you have ever completed in your whole entire life and you will frame it and love it always!