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General Poetry Terms Poem, Poet, Speaker Line, Stanza, Refrain Typography Tone Mood

Poem – Day 1 Artistic verse, imaginative and rhythmic writing, no rules Any song lyrics, nursery rhymes, jump rope chants, cheers

Poet - Day 1 Author of a poem Shel Silverstein, Dr. Seuss, Robert Frost, Maya Angelo, Taylor Swift

Speaker - Day 1 Person who is “telling” the poem, point of view Cinderella speaking in a narrative poem where she tells her story

Line - Day 1 Basic unit in poem, similar to sentence, no rules 1 Roses are red. 2 Violets are blue

Stanza - Day 1 Group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern and are separated by spaces Like a paragraph of poetry It states and develops a single main idea

Refrain - Day 1 Repeated line or group of lines after a stanza, repeated lyrics in a song Jingle bells, jingle bells Jingle all the way…

Typography - Day 1 Organization, weird or absent punctuation and capitalization, text appearance The anchor sank Down Concrete poems Acrostics

Tone - Day 1 Writer’s attitude toward his or her audience and subject Often be described by an adjective such as formal or informal, serious or playful, bitter or ironic Factors that contribute to the tone are word choice, sentence structure, line length, rhyme, rhythm, and repetition

Mood - Day 1 Feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage Similar to tone Playful, sinister, gloomy, cheerful

Poetry Sounds Sound effects Rhyme/Rhyme scheme Rhythm Alliteration Onomatopoeia Repetition Syllabication

Sound Effects - Day 2 Music to your ears, weird sounds, play on words Rhyme, alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition, beat

Rhyme/Rhyme Scheme Repetition of sounds at the ends of words. Poets use rhyme to lend a song-like quality to their verses and to emphasize certain words or ideas Many poems contain end-rhymes or rhyming words at the ends of lines Rhyme Scheme is the rhyme pattern, like ABCB

Rhythm - Day 2 Sing-song feel while reading See - limericks, couplets Like the rhythm of a song

Alliteration - Day 2 The repetition of initial consonant sounds Writers use this to draw attention to certain words or ideas to imitate sounds and to create musical effects Tongue Twisters The flighty fox was neither friend or foe

Onomatopoeia - Day 2 Sound words, hear the sound when saying the word swish, bam, boom, snap, crackle, pop, buzz, slurp, fizzle, honk, meow

Repetition - Day 2 Use, more than once, of any element of language- A sound, word, phrase clause or sentence Used in prose and poetry It went up, up and back down.

Syllabication – Day 2 Division of words into syllables, helps with rhythmic sounds, structure P 0 -ET-RY syl-lab-i-fi-ca-tion

Poetry Language Literal vs. Figurative Personification Similes Metaphors Hyperbole Idiom Imagery

Literal vs. Figurative - Day 3 Literal language means what the words say Literal Example: Her hair is red. Figurative language doesn’t mean what the words say Figurative Example: Her hair is like a flame.

Personification - Day 4 Human characteristics to unhuman things The tree stretched it’s long arms to the sky, dancing in the wind.

Simile - Day 5 Comparison using like or as, things must be unlike The tree’s branches were like thin, outstretched arms

Metaphor - Day 5 Direct comparison of unlike things The tree was a skyscraper.

Hyperbole Extreme exaggeration, stretching the truth, overstatement I’m starving. I could eat a bear. I had tons of homework.

Idiom Figure of speech, passed down by generations The misty gray rain smelled like wet earth as it touched my face.

Imagery – Day 6 Words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the 5 senses Writers use imagery to describe how their subjects look, sound, feel, taste, and smell Poets often paint images, or word pictures, that also appeal to your senses These pictures help you experience the poem fully

Types of Poetry Rhyming – Couplets and Narrative Syllabics – Limericks, Haiku, Cinquain, Diamante Special Typography – Concrete, Acrostic Free Verse

Couplet - Day 7 Two lines of a verse usually in the same meter and joined by rhyme, that form a unit She was a poet But she didn’t know it

Narrative Poetry - Day 7 Story told in verse Narrative poems often have all the elements of short stories including characters, conflict, and plot Could include odes, ballads, and epic poems

Limericks - Day 8 5 lined syllabic poem AABBA, rhythm, funny, one stanza I had a phone meeting with Ted Who turned out was ill in his bed He thought it was muted And went on and tooted To find he’d pushed “speaker instead.

Haiku - Day 8 3 lined syllabic poem 5 – 7– 5 In tickly-toe grass, A buttercup offers up Yellow nose kisses.

Cinquain - Day 8 5 lined syllabic poem 2 -4 -6 -8 -2, unrhymed Flowers Vibrant, fragrant Swaying, growing, blooming Making me feel beautiful inside Blossoms

Diamante - Day 8 Diamond poem, 7 lines, forms a diamond shape Lion Majestic, proud Roaring, snarling, prowling Mane, muscle – Fleece, fluff Bleating, leaping, grazing Meek, gentle Lamb

Concrete - Day 9 Shape poem, shape matches the meaning The trees Keep me free As I walk around To let my soul flow F R O M the breeze

Acrostic - Day 9 Certain letters spell out words, can be single word lines or multi word lines Digging Out Grubworms

Free Verse - Day 10 Poetry that is open to pattern and is recognized as nonconforming and rhyme-less verse.