Poetry
terms and unit focus
Unit focus
By the end of this unit, the goal is for all of you to be able to:
• understand difference between free verse and rhyme
• understand the form and structure of poetry
• identify poetic elements
• identify enjambment
• Identify sound devices within poetry
• create meaning from poetry
• create your own poetry
Poetic Structure
Lines
Stanzas
A horizontal row of words that
may or may not form a
complete sentence
A group of lines forming a
unit and separated from the
next stanza by a line of space
The mother smiled to know her child
was in a sacred place,
but that smile was the last smile
to come upon her face.
-"Ballad of Birmingham"
Dudley Randall
enjambment: The continuation of a complete idea (a sentence
or clause) from one line or couplet of a poem to the next line
or couplet without a pause
Rhyme
Repetition of a final stressed vowel and succeeding sounds in
two or more words.
• Internal rhyme: occurs within lines of poetry
• End rhyme: occurs at the end of lines
• Rhyme scheme: pattern formed by the end rhymes
o Is shown by a row of letters, in which a different letter of
the alphabet signals each new rhyme
Sound Devices
• Alliteration
o repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words
o past the puff-cheeked clouds
• Consonance
o repetition of consonant sounds within words or at the end
of words
o and kisses are a better fate
• Assonance
o repetition of vowel sounds within non-rhyming words
o
in a proud round cloud in a white high night
• Onomatopoeia
o words that imitate sounds - spelled as it sounds
o swoosh or clank
Review?
Words we've discussed that you will need to know.
IF you don't - this is your HOMEWORK
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Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Imagery
Unit Outline
Historical/Cultural Themes in Poetry: Week 1
George Ella Lyon
Langston Hughes
Felix Morisseau-Leroy
Pablo Neruda
Headline Poetry
Creating meaning - multiple messages: Week 2
Emily Dickinson
William Butler Yeats
E.E. Cummings
Fire and Ice
Shel Silverstein
The Rose that Grew from Concrete
• Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it
learned to walk with out having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping it's dreams,
it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete
when no one else ever cared.