What is Poetry

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What is Poetry

• Rhythm and rhyme with attitude and perspective

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Vocabulary in poetry

• Symbol
• Repetition
• Personification
• Simile
• Alliteration
• Sensory words
• Mood
• Tone
• Stanza

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More Vocabulary

• Haiku
• Sonnet
• Limerick
• Free verse
• Blank verse
• Concrete poem
• Abstract poem
• Lyric poem

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More Vocabulary

• Quatrain
• Couplet
• Meter
• Repetition
• Cinquain
• Acrostic
• Narrative poetry

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Yet More Vocabulary

• rhythm
• Dramatic poetry
• Imagery
• Onomatopoeia
• Assonance
• Epitaphs
• etheree

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More Vocabulary

• Theme
• End rhyme
• Foot
• Refrain
• Structure
• Thats all folks!!!

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Types of poems

• Haiku
• 3 line poem with 17 syllables. First and third
  lines have 5 syllables each, and the second line
  has 7 syllables. First created in Japan,
  expresses an experience by presenting one
  striking image.

• Over the wintry
• Forest, winds howl in a rage
• With no leaves to blow.
• By Soseki

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Limerick

• A short, humorous poem with five lines. Lines
  one, two, and five have three metric feet and
  lines three and four have two. Rhyme scheme is
  aabba.

• A flea and a fly in a flue
• Were caught, so what could they do?
• Said the fly, Let us flee.
• Let us fly said the flea.
• So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

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Free Verse

• Look at me by Peg Hoddinott

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Concrete Poem

• A poem whose shape resembles the object it
  describes. The shape contributes to the meaning
  of the poem.
• Eyes by Alyssa Voglewede

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Etheree

• Line one contains one syllable, line two contains
  two syllables etc. There are ten lines in all.
• My Future by Amanda Mcdevitt

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Lyrical Poems

• Legacy
• By Martha Gilroy

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Epitaphs

• Here lies
• An angry man
• Nobody really knew him
• Tis a shame

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Sonnet

• The Sound of the Sea
• By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Diamonte

• Pattern 1
• Line 1 Noun
• Line 2 adjective, adjective
• Line 3 verb, verb, verb
• Line 4 noun, noun, noun, noun
• Line 5 verb, verb, verb
• Line 6 adjective, adjective
• Line 7 noun

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Diamonte

• Pattern 2
• Line 1 opposite of line7
• Line 2 describe line 1
• Line 3 action about line 1
• Line 4 2 nouns about line 1 and 2 nouns about
  line 7
• Line 5 Action about line 7
• Line 6 Describe line 7
• Line 7 Opposite of line

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Diamonte Example 2

• Love
• Bright, Passionate
• Charming, drifting, growing
• Cherish, infatuation, antipathy, uncaring
• Animosity, falling, dead
• Dark, disgust
• hate

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Poetry

• Just a look at the basics
• Now it is time to start your web-quest and write
  your own poetry. Dont forget we will have a
  poetry slam next week.

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Lets get going

• Computers out and ready. Complete this assignment
  with precision and remember this is your work.