What is poetry?
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 Poetry is a type of writing
 Uses words
 Intense focus on expression of feelings or ideas
 Not just feelings
 Uses distinctive rhythm or style
 Sounds of words, syllables, emphasis
Key Terms
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 Writer – person that wrote the poem
 Speaker – “narrator” of the poem
 Line – one line of poetry
 Stanza – “paragraph” of poem
Patterns
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 Rhythm – the pattern of emphasis on the words
 Rhyme – repeated end sounds of words
 Alliteration – repeated beginning sound of word
 Consonance – repeated consonant sound in words
 Assonance – repeated vowel sound in words
Figurative Language
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 Allusion
 Simile
 Metaphor
 Personification
Humans are Rhythmic
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 What are some patterns that we go through as
human beings?
 As creatures of the earth?
 What patterns do we see in ourselves and nature?
Rhythm and Meter
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 Like in music: pattern of emphasis
 Breaking it down further
 Poem
 Line
 Word
 Syllable
 Two types
Don’t get over STRESSED
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 Stressed and unstressed syllables
 When looking at poetry analysis, it looks like this
What does it do?
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 Some poetry is categorized by its rhythm pattern
 Different kinds of rhythmic units or FEET
Some examples
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A flea and a fly in a flue
Were caught, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee."
"Let us fly," said the flea
So they flew through a flaw in the flue
-Anonymous
da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
da DUM da da DUM
da DUM da da DUM
da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
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A flea and a fly in a flue
Were caught, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee."
"Let us fly," said the flea
So they flew through a flaw in the flue