Poetry Vocabulary 1 Alliteration Repetition of initial consonant

Poetry Vocabulary

1. Alliteration: – Repetition of initial consonant sounds – A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art 2. Allusion: 3. Ballad: – A song-like poem that tells a story – Poetry written in unrhymed, tensyllable lines 4. Blank Verse:

5. Figurative Language: – Writing that is not meant to be taken literally 6. Free Verse: – Poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter 7. Haiku: – A three-lined Japanese verse

8. Imagery: – A word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses 9. Lyric Poem: – Highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker 10. Metaphor: – Comparing two unlike things without using like or as

11. Mood: – The feeling created in the reader by a literary work 12. Narrative Poem: – A story told in verse 13. Onomatopoeia: – The use of words that imitate sounds 14. Personification: – A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics

15. Refrain: – A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem 16. Repetition: – The use, more than once, of any element of language 17. Rhyme: – Repetition of sounds at the end of words 18. Rhyme Scheme: – A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem

19. Rhythm: – Pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language 20. Simile: – A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas My love is like a red rose.

21. Sonnet: - A fourteen-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme and rhythm 22. Stanza: – A formal division of lines in a poem considered as a unit

Poetry Humor & Poetry

Humor • Humor in poetry can arise from a number of sources: – Surprise – Exaggeration – Bringing together of unrelated things • Most funny poems have two things in common: – Rhythm – Rhyme

Rhythm & Rhyme • Using more spirited language makes humorous situations even more humorous “The Porcupine” By Ogden Nash Any hound a porcupine nudges Can’t be blamed for harboring grudges. I know one hound that laughed all winter At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.

If you take away the rhythm and rhyme, the humor vanishes. Any hound that touches a porcupine Can’t be blamed for holding a grudge I know one hound that laughed all winter long At a porcupine that sat on a piece of wood

Limericks • A limerick is a poem of five lines • The first, second, and fifth lines have three rhythmic beats and rhyme with one another. • The third and fourth lines have two beats and rhyme with one another. • They are always light-hearted, humorous poems.

Limericks There once was a man with no hair. He gave everyone quite a scare. He got some Rogaine, Grew out a mane, And now he resembles a bear!

Limerick About a Bee I wish that my room had a floor, I don’t care so much for a door. But this walking around Without touching the ground Is getting to be quite a bore.

Another Limerick (notice the rhyme scheme) There once was a very small mouse (a) Who lived in a very small house, (a) The ocean’s spray (b) Washed it away, (b) All that was left was her blouse! (a)

You will create a limerick similar to this one… There once was a man from Beijing. All his life he hoped to be King. So he put on a crown, Which quickly fell down. That small silly man from Beijing.

Fill in the blanks and create your own Limerick. There once was a _____ from _____. All the while she/he hoped ____. So she/he __________, And ____________, That _____ from ______.

My Limerick: There once was a crab from the sand. All the while he hoped for some land. So he walked off the beach, And ate a ripe peach, Then he started up his own band.