POETRY UNIT
A short piece of imaginative writing, of a
personal nature and laid out in lines
“WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN”
POETIC DEVICES
 Dialect- a version of language
spoken by people in a particular
place, time, or social group.
• Ex: ya’ll, yun’z
“WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN”
POETIC DEVICES
ONOMATOPOEIA
 The use of words or
phrases that sound like
the things to which they
refer.
 Ex: Bang, pop, buzz
“WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN”
POETIC DEVICES
 Alliteration- the repetition of initial consonant sounds
• Ex: Sally sells sea shells, Tip of the tongue
 Atmosphere- that emotion created in the reader
by all or part of a literary work.
POEM VOCABULARY
 Fodder- food for animals
 Shock- bunches of grain bound together
 Guiney- a barnyard bird
 Furrows- long, narrow trench in the ground made by the plow
 Souse- type of pickled meat
 Boarding- a place to stay
“ W H E N TH E F R O S T I S O N
TH E P U N K I N ”
By James Whitcomb Riley
Prereading Questions:
What season has frost?
What do you visualize when you read the title?
What dialect do you think this poem uses? Why?
What do you predict this poem will be about?
POEM 1: SEASONAL POEM
 Choose one season
 Write a 8-12 line poem about that season
 Poem must have the following:
• Use of sensory details to create imagery
• An example of alliteration
• An example of onomatopoeia
 Must be coherent and unified!!
“THE LISTENERS”
By Walter de la Mare
“THE LISTENERS”
POETIC DEVICES
 Rhyme- the repetition of sounds at the ends of words
• What rhyming words do you know??
 Rhyme Scheme- a regular pattern of end rhymes
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ABAB
ABBA
ABBB
AABB
ABCA
ETC……
POEM VOCABULARY
 Champed- bit, chewed
 Turret- small tower, often round
 Smote- hit, beat, knocked
 Perplexed- confused, puzzled
 Phantom- ghost, spirit
 Thronging- gathering of a large numbers
 Hearkening- listening
 Cropping- cutting short
“THE LISTENERS” QUESTIONS
Prereading Questions:
 What do you predict the mood/atmosphere of this poem will be?
Why?
“400-METER FREE STYLE”
“400-METER FREE STYLE”
POETIC DEVICES
 Concrete poem- printed or written in a shape that goes with the
subject matter.
 Action- the sequence of events that occur in literary work.
“400-METER FREE STYLE”
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Poem Vocabulary
Catapult- shoot, leap
Cunning- with skill
Thrift- careful management or resources
Extravagance- unreasonable excess
Mobile- capable of moving
Convert- change to another form
List- tilt to one side
Expend- consume by using
Surge- Violent rolling or sweeping
“400-METER FREE STYLE”
Prereading Questions:
 What do you know about the start of a swimming meet?
 What are laps?
POEM 2: CONCRETE POEM
 Create a concrete poem.
 At least ten lines
 Must take the shape of the subject matter
 Does not need to rhyme
 Be creative!
 20 points