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| Every type of writing EXCEPT poetry (like essays, stories, articles ..) |
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| A form of writing that has stanzas and lines. It creates images and feelings. It can have rhyme and rythm. |
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| Similar to a sentence in a paragraph, it is a horizontal section of the poem. |
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| Similar to a paragraph, it is a group of lines that form an idea or ideas. They are seperated by spacing between stanzas. |
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| Like a narrator of a story, the speaker "tells" the poem. |
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| Repetition is a word or phrase that appears multiple times in the poem. Refrains are similar to a chorus in a song and are several lines long, set off by themselves. |
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| The place and time of the poem |
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| Action that could possibly take place in a poem. |
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Sometimes poems have conflict-
Character vs character
character vs self
character vs society
character vs nature
character vs technology
Character vs fate
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The point of view from which the speaker tells poem.
First person ( I, we ...)
Second person ( you....)
Third person ( they, it, he, she...) |
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| The message the author wants you to understand in the poem. ( It is not a summary of the poem) |
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| The feelings that are created in the reader based word choice in the poem. |
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| The opposite of what is expected |
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A complete word that spells a sound...
SMASH, CRACK, BOOM |
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When there is a "repeated sound" at the beginning of words.
Peter Piper picked a peek of pickled peppers. The "P" is the repeated sound. |
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When the last syllable of a word sounds the same as another.
Locomotion
fun
( they don't have to be spelled the same)
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The pattern of rhyme that occurs at the end of each line. Each new sound gets a new letter...
Roses are red, ( a)
Violets are blue, (b)
Sugar is sweet, (c)
and so are you! (b)
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| Two lines of a poem, set off by themselves ( usually have same end rhyme) |
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| Four lines of a poem set off by themselves ( usually have a rhyme pattern). |
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When the lines of a poem have a pattern of syllables.
Roses are red, (5 syllables)
Violets are blue, (5 syllables)
Sugar is sweet, (5 syllables)
and so are you! (5 syllables) |
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Means more than what is stated (creates images in the reader's mind).
( simile, metaphor, hyperbole, idiom, personification) |
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| Figurative language that creates pictures in our minds and appeals to our senses. (touch, smell, sight, hearing, seeing) |
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A comparison between two things that uses "like" or "as"....
As/simile/like
Water was as smooth as glass
Water was like glass |
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A comparison of two things but you are saying
"One thing IS another"
Her tears were a river flowing down her cheeks. |
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Giving human characteristics to something nonhuman.
The leaves waved in the wind. |
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Exaggeration for effect!
I am so hungry, I could eat a horse!
( NOT really!) |
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They are words or phrases that aren't meant to be taken literally.
(only for emphasis)
It was raining cats and dogs!
( means it was raining very hard) |
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A type of poem that does not have rythm or rhyme:
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city.... |
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| Narrative poems are stories in poem form. They tell the story of an event in the form of a poem. |
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They form a shape which is about the topic.
I climb
Stairs everyday
To get to my room at work
Which is hurts my knees and back |
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| Japanese poem with specific syllables per line (5/7/5). Focuses on nature. Is direct and intense. |
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Cultural definition of a word/ the word in context. (positive or negative).
Childish ( negative connotation)
Youthful ( positive connotation)
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