Poetry

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Poetry

• Poetry is what we live for.

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Poetry is used to invoke emotion

• Anger
• Depression
• Distress
• Fear

• Inadequacy
• Joy
• Love
• Ability

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Prose

• Your first date
• Your first time driving
• Coming to a new school
• Moving
• A fight with your parents/girlfriend/friend
• An unexpected day off of school
• Failing a test

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Prose

• Falling up the stairs (anything embarrassing)
• Your first kiss
• Public speaking
• The beach

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Structure

• Divide your poem into stanzas
• Delete unnecessary words
• Stress important ideas
• Think about typography

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Add Movement

• Give your subject action
• Make him or it do something
• Action Verbs

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Add Imagery

• Think of your favorite sense.
• Describe that sense to someone who will never
  experience it.

• Visual Tactile
• Auditory Taste
• Olfactory

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Add Interest

• Metaphors
• Similes
• Personification

• The Devil is in the Details
• Use adjectives and adverbs

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Add Sound

• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Consonance
• Rhyme
• Meter

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A Poem

• Hand it in typed
• It will count as a quiz
• Include original