LET'S REFLECT ON TASK I
1. Please TAKE OUT TASK 1 LOGS!
2. Follow instructions as outlined in our classbuilding structure - MIXED PAIR SHARE!
REMEMBER – GUIDING Q’S
• WHAT MAKES GOOD POETRY?
• WHAT KIND OF POEM CAPTURES YOUR ATTENTION?
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WHAT TYPE OF POEM COULD MAKE YOU LAUGH?
• WHAT KIND COULD MAKE YOU CRY?
• WHAT POEMS TRIGGER YOUR IMAGINATION?
Triad Team Challenge
Poetic Terms
• Find Samaddar Handout Box
• Locate Poetic Devices PowerPoint
• With group of 3, read Ppt, recording terms /
definitions
• On signal, return to class and complete
“triad” quiz
WHAT KIND OF POETRY AM I?
• I am a poem that contains words that sound similar
at the end of a line I am a poem that
___________________
• I have a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit
of a poem. I am a ______________________ .
• I am a poem that often talks about nature, feelings or
experiences. I have simple words and grammar and
do no rhyme. I am a ________________.
WHAT KIND OF POETRY AM I?
• I am a poem that should have impact on the
read. I pay less attention to patterns of the
English sentence and my arrangement is well
thought out. My theme is most important. I
am called a __________________________
poem.
• I am a poem that has two lines that rhyme. I
am a ___________________.
WHAT KIND OF POETRY AM I?
• I am a funny five line poem. People can't
quite agree on whether I came from Ireland or
France. What kind of poem am I?
____________________________
• I am a poem that can be short or long and tell
a story. I am a _________________________
poem.
What is poetry?
• It means many things to many people.
• “Its the spontaneous overflow of powerful
feelings.”
• "Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or
yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what
makes me want to do this or that or nothing."
Poetic Terms
Rhyme
Rhymes
Spaghetti! Spaghetti
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
You’re wonderful stuff,
I love you, spaghetti,
I can’t get enough.
You’re covered with sauce
And you’re sprinkled with cheese,
Spaghetti! Spaghetti!
Oh, give me some please.
Jack Prelutsky
Simile
Simile
A figure of speech involving a comparison
between unlike things using like, as, or as
though.
Example:
"My love is like a red, red rose.“
“She is glowing as bright as the sun.”
Metaphor
Metaphor
A comparison between essentially unlike things
without an explicitly comparative word such
as like or as.
Example:
"My love is a red, red rose,“
“He is a stone wall”
Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia
The use of words to imitate the sounds they
describe. Words such as buzz and crack are
onomatopoetic.
Example:
POW! BAM! SNAP!
Alliteration
Alliteration
The repetition of consonant sounds, especially
at the beginning of words.
Example:
- She sells sea shells by the sea shore. (An old
tongue-twister).
Bugs Bunny
• Baseball Bugs: "Watch me paste this pathetic
palooka with a powerful paralyzing perfect
pachydermous percussion pitch!"
Personification
Personification
A poetic device giving human attributes to an
inhuman thing (animal).
Example:
- "The tree jumped into the road in front of my
car"
- "With an evil scowl, the storm cloud
thundered its disapproval"
- The car froged ahead with determination.
Assonance
Assonance
• The repetition of similar vowels in the stressed
syllables of successive words.
• Example: Reeses Pieces
Hyperbole
A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Example:
I’ve told you a million times!
I haven’t talked to you in forever!
Imagery
Imagery
• Involves one or more of your 5 senses
(hearing, taste, touch, smell, sight)
• An author uses a word or phrase to stimulate
your memory of those senses.
• These memories can be positive or negative
which will contribute to the mood of a poem.
Example of Rhythm
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
and of all the king’s horses and all of the
King’s men
couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together
again.
Practice Your Rhythm
Clankity Clankity Clankity Clank!
Ankylosaurus was built like a tank,
Its hide was a fortress as sturdy as steel,
It tended to be an inedible meal.
It was armored in front, it was armored behind,
There wasn’t a thing on its minuscule mind,
It waddled about on its four stubby legs,
Nibbling on plants with a mouthful of pegs.
Ankylosaurus was best left alone,
Its tail was a cudgel of gristle and bone,
Clankity Clankity Clankity Clank!
Ankylosaurus was built like a tank.
By: Jack Prelutsky
Symbol
Oxymoron
Oxymoron
• Contradictory terms appear side by side.
Example:
- “A yawn may be defined as a silent yell.”
- Open secret
- Living dead
- Hell’s Angels
- Jumbo shrimp
Repetition
Repetition
• A word or a sentence that is used more than
once.
Example:
Inside the ocean
I see fish.
Inside the waves
I hear a splash.
Inside the water
I felt a fish.
It seems so big,
as big as a whale.
It has to be,
But then I see,
It's a tuna fish.
I Wanna Hold your Hand
I Want to Hold your Hand
Oh yeah, I'll tell you something
I think you'll uderstand,
When I say that something,
I wanna hold your hand,
I wanna hold your hand,
I wanna hold your hand.
Oh please say to me
You'll let me be your man,
And please say to me, You'll let me hold your hand,
Now let me hold your hand.
And when I touch you I feel happy inside,
It's such a feeling
That my love I can't hide,
I can't hide, I can't hide.
Yeah you got that something,
I think you'll understand,
When I say that something,
I wanna hold your hand,
I wanna hold your hand,
I wanna hold your hand.
Yeah you got that something,
I think you'll understand,
When I feel that something,
I wanna hold your hand,
I wanna hold your hand,
I wanna hold your hand.
--J. Lennon/P. McCartney
Allusion
Allusion
• Stimulates ideas, associations and extra
information in the reader’s mind with only a
word or two.
• Means ‘reference’
• It relies on the reader being able to
understand the allusion and being familiar
with all of the meaning hidden behind words.
Allusion
• Ex: “Christy didn’t like to spend money. She
was no Scrooge, but she seldom purchased
anything except the bare necessities.”
• Allusion: Scrooge. Image should be someone
who pinches pennies.
Allusion
• Carlos used Herculean strength to lift the sofa
off his cat’s tail.
• Allusion: Hercules.
Someone who is very
strong.
Point of View
The job of the poet is to bring the reader/listener into the position of the poet;
make them the creator of the action.
• The most obvious point of view is probably first person or "I."
• The omniscient narrator knows everything, may reveal the
motivations, thoughts and feelings of the characters, and
gives the reader information.
• With a limited omniscient narrator, the material is presented
from the point of view of a character, in third person.
• The objective point of view presents the action and the
characters' speech, without comment or emotion. The reader
has to interpret them and uncover their meaning.
Symbolism
Meter
• A rhythm of accented and unaccented syllables which are organized into
patterns, called feet. In English poetry, the most common meters are
these:
• Iambic: a foot consisting of an unaccented and accented syllable.
Shakespeare often uses iambic, for example the beginning of Hamlet's
speech (the accented syllables are italicized), "To be or not to be. Listen for
the accents in this line from Marlowe, "Come live with me and be my
love." English seems to fall naturally into iambic patterns, for it is the most
common meter in English.
• Trochaic: a foot consisting of an accented and unaccented syllable.
Longfellow's Hiawatha uses this meter, which can quickly become
singsong (the accented syllable is italicized): "By the shores of
GitcheGumee
By the shining Big-Sea-water."
Different types of
What is a Rhyming Poem?
• A rhyming poem is a verse poem that
contains rhyming words at the end of certain
lines.
Example:
Night
time
by Lee Bennet Hopkins
How do dreams know
when to creep
into my head
when I fall off
to Sleep?
The Purpose of Rhyming Poems
• Rhyming poems are used mainly for humor.
These poems are fun to read.
• Lets see some more poems with rhymes.
Rhyming Scheme
• Common rhyme schemes are: ABAB, ABCD. If
you have more than one verse you could
consider: AABA BBCB CCDC etc. or similar.
What is Rhythm?
• Any poem has the chance of having rhythm.
• A poem has rhythm if the reader of the poem
gives the poem rhythm.
• For a poem to have rhythm, it has to be read
following a pattern with its syllables. For
example:
da, da, dadada da da, da, da, dadada da da,
da, da, dadada da da, da, da, dadada da da.
Stanza
• A fix number of lines of verse forming a unit of
a poem.
• Each stanza is its own unit.
• Indicates a break between thoughts, actions
or concepts.
• Some different types of stanzas are...
Couplet
• Stanzas of only 2 lines that usually rhyme.
Example:
Whether or not we find what we are seeking is
idle, biologically speaking.
The Couplet
Quatrain
• Four line stanza.
Oh the birds are singing,
In a nest of broken sticks,
Look what they are bringing,
It's nutrition for their chicks.
Cinquain
• Five line stanza.
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1st line: one word giving the title.
2nd line: 2 words describing the title.
3rd line: 3 words describing the action.
4th line: 4 words describing the feeling.
5th line: another word for the title.
Dog
Black and White
Wags his tail
Fun to play with
Friend.
Hamburgers
Thick, juicy
Delicious, scrumptious, yummy
Better still with relish
McDonalds
Haiku
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Write about everyday things.
Themes: nature, feelings or experiences.
Simple words and grammar.
No rhyme....they paint. (imagery)
3 lines.
• 1st line: 5 syllables.
• 2nd line: 7 syllables.
• 3rd line: 5 syllables.
• A Rainbow.
Curving up, then down.
Meeting blue sky and green earth.
Melding sun and rain.
• Nature
Frogs jumping around
Frogs hopping away from snakes
Frogs doing cool tricks.
Verse
• One line of poetry.
Found Poem
• Each word in the poem has been ‘found’ and
put together to make a poem. For example, I
am currently sitting on my couch, and will
write for you a found poem:
27, Innocent Man, Canadian,
How to attract more love
200 mg, exact.
Stream of Consciousness Response
• Write as many thoughts and feelings as we
can without worrying about spelling or
grammar.
• All the thoughts in our heads; these thoughts
and feelings happen so fast we often don’t
write them down.
• The Addict
The Problem Maker
• Ask ask ask (asking questions)
• To understand poems it is important to ask
questions about details in the poem.
• 5 W’s
• Who? What? When? Where? Why?
Ask as many questions as you can...
But
As the hand of love
Freely extended
Always returns
Covered with scars
(if not nailed to the cross),
It is not stupid to refuse the cure
It is not stupid
To remain paralyzed,
Stuck on the pallet.
But
It is boring.
Concrete Poem
• 2 types:
1) A free verse poem in the shape of what it is
describing or in the shape of something related
to the topic.
2) A one word poem in the shape of what it is.
Concrete
Narrative
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Plot
Short or long
Tells a story
“A story told in poetic form”
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SUMMER
Why am I here?
I told them not to sign me up.
I ran out of 6th period yesterday
Knowing a journey had begun.
Mighty Ducks was so cool last night.
Jumping up and down on the bed.
Singing We Are The Champions.
Now I am here in camp.
First day-Sitting on the ground
As the other kids talk.
Wait a minute--bright idea…
Opening my bag, I take out the Super Soaker.
Squirt! -smile- Two kids are wet.
I run as they come after me.
The Counselor sees me.
This cute girl sees me—wow, she’s hot.
Squirt! She’s wet :)
This camp might not be so bad.
Just one week and I’ll be done…
In the gym, some days ahead
We are playing basketball.
My ball bounces off the rim and rolls to a big kid.
I squirted you!
He grabs my ball and punts it across the court.
Hey! Not fair.
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Maybe he was mad because at lunch I was
Also trying to talk to this girl we both liked.
She gave me a kiss on the cheek.
Lip next time, ohh yeah!
Friday, yes, Friday—almost there.
Pool day.
We travel to a place where other campers meet.
Everyone jumps in.
I wait and cannonball.
Water splashes! Commotion!
-ContestsThe bigger splash.
Pouring “rain”.
Pool tackling.
The big guy comes after me under the pool.
Thank you, goggles.
I see other kids underwater.
Some jumping down in many bubbles.
The girl,whoa! The girl from lunch!
She kisses me under the water.
Ohh yeah!
I got my wish….
(I’m a bird flying towards the sun in sweet bliss—harmony------wait..wait!)
The big kid grabs me out from underwater, goggles slide off.
He throws me to the other side of the pool. My, he’s strong.
Bodybuilder wanna-be!!
Climbing out of the pool
The breeze welcomes me.
I pose my muscles amid the watery chaos (hggh!)
I am the Champion.
Free Verse
Free Verse
• Doesn't have to have a rhyme scheme or
rhythm.
• The theme is the most important.
• It pays less attention to the normal
grammatical patterns of the English sentence.
• Sentence fragments may be used.
• Should have impact on the reader.
• The arrangement is well thought out
The Ballad
• Ballad Poems are poems that tells a story
similar to a folk tale or legend and often has
a repeated refrain. A ballad is often about
love and often sung. A ballad is a story in
poetic form.
• Death
• Supernatural
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Simple language
Narrative
Repetition
Rhyme
Song like
Dialogue
Folk
Literary
Cats
in the
Cradl
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• 5 line poem
• Rhyme: AABBA
• Funny
An Example of a Limerick
What is a limerick, Mother?
It's a form of verse, said brother
In which lines one and two
Rhyme with five when it's through
And three and four rhyme with each other.
author unknown
Limerick
There was an Old Man in a tree,
Who was horribly bored by a Bee;
When they said, 'Does it buzz?'
He replied, 'Yes, it does!'
'It's a regular brute of a Bee!'
Limerick
There was a Young Lady whose chin,
Resembled the point of a pin;
So she had it made sharp,
And purchased a harp,
And played several tunes with her chin.
Limerick
There was an Old Man with a nose,
Who said, 'If you choose to suppose,
That my nose is too long,
You are certainly wrong!'
That remarkable Man with a nose
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1 word- subject
2 words- adjectives
3 words- participles (ing)
4 words- nouns
3 words- participles
2 words- adjectives
1 word- noun (opposite or example of the
subject)
Ornament
Glistening, bright
Hanging, sparkling, falling
Tinsel, popcorn, lights, berries
Shining, breaking, cracked
Wrecked, ruined
Star
Tanka
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Japanese poetry.
5 lines with a total of 31 syllables.
5-7-5-7-7 division.
Nature and seasons.
Where is the white snow? (5)
It is time for it I know? (7)
I go on looking (5)
On the hill, over the brook (7)
But the snow is hiding still (7)
Types of Rhyming Poems
There are many types of rhyming poems.
Here are names of some of them:
•The Couplet
•The Limerick
•The Ballad Stanza (including the short and long)
•Octaves
REFLECTION AT END OF UNIT
PART B: WHAT KIND OF POETRY AM I?
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I am a poem that contains words that sound similar at the end of a line I am a
poem that ___________________
I have a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem. I am a
______________________ .
I am a pome that often talks about nature, feelings or experiences. I have simple
words and grammar and do no rhyme. I am a ________________.
I am a poem that can be short or long and tell a story. I am a
_________________________ poem.
I am a poem that should have impact on the read. I pay less attention to patterns
of the English sentence and my arrangement is well thought out. My theme is
most important. I am called a __________________________ poem.
I am a poem that has two lines that rhyme. I am a ___________________.
I am a funny five line poem. People can't quite agree on whether I came from
Ireland or France. What kind of poem am I? ____________________________
Match Poetic Devices…..
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ONOMATOPOEIA ____
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SIMILE ____
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OXYMORON ____
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ALLITERATION ____
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RHYTHM ____
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SYMBOL
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HYPERBOLE ____
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PERSONIFICATION____
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IMAGERY ____
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METAPHOR ____
With an Example or Definition
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the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllable into a pattern
(e.g., syllables in a haiku – 5/7/5)
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giving personality or human characterisitcs to something that isn't
human – e,g, the jar of cookies was calling my name
a.
E.g. - She is like a rose. Ogres are like onions
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Words or phrases that create pictures, or images, in the readers'
mind
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Contradictory terms appear side by side. – E.g., - jumbo shrimp,
Hell's Angels
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Splash! Pop! Sizzle! Buzz! Hiss!
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an exaggeration used for emphasis – e.g., this books weights a ton!
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E.g., - He is a pig when he eats – a direct comparison between two
literally unlike things
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anything that stands for something larger – E.g., a rose is for love; a
skull is for death
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E.g., - the big brown bear banged on his bucket of borscht