Vocabulary
Allusion:
◦ A reference to a well-known
person, place, event, literary
work, or work of art
2. Ballad:
◦ A song-like poem that tells a
story
3. Blank Verse:
◦ Poetry written in unrhymed,
ten-syllable lines
1.
4. Concrete Poem:
◦ A poem with a shape that
suggests its subject
5. Free Verse:
◦ Poetry not written in a
regular rhythmical pattern or
meter
6. Haiku:
 A three-lined Japanese
verse
7. Image:
◦ A word or phrase that
appeals to one or more of
the five senses
8. Lyric Poem:
◦ Highly musical verse that
expresses the observations
and feelings of a single
speaker
9. Mood:
◦
The feeling created in the reader by a
literary work
10. Narrative Poem:
◦ A story told in verse
11. Refrain:
◦ A regularly repeated line or group of lines
in a poem
12. Repetition:
◦
The use, more than once, of any element of
language
Refrain:
16.
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Repetition:
17.
◦
The use, more than once, of any element of
language
Rhyme:
18.
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19.
A regularly repeated line or group of lines in
a poem
Repetition of sounds at the end of words
Rhyme Scheme:
 A regular pattern of rhyming
words in a poem
Rhythm:
◦ Pattern of beats or
stresses in spoken or
written language
20.
Stanza:
◦ A formal division of lines
in a poem considered as a
unit
21.
Humor & Poetry
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Humor in poetry can arise
from a number of
sources:
 Surprise
 Exaggeration
 Bringing together of
unrelated things
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Most funny poems have
two things in common:
 Rhythm
 Rhyme
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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.
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
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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.
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!
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.
There once was a very small mouse
Who lived in a very small house,
The ocean’s spray
Washed it away,
All that was left was her blouse!
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.
There once was a _____ from _____.
All the while she/he hoped ________.
So she/he ____________________,
And ________________________,
That _________ from ___________.
There once was a man from Japan.
All the while he hoped for a tan.
So he lay on the beach,
And ate a ripe peach,
That came from a Georgia van.