Language Arts

Poetry

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VocabularyVocabulary

Poetry is…..Define: A literary work in which

special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas be the use of distinctive style and rhythm.

Literary terms to know

Alliteration:– Repetition of beginning consonant sounds

– Easy to Reads– Big blue birds

Cute chubby catsMany merry mice

More Advanced– Great giants groan greatly on green grass.– Pretty princesses parade proudly passing

people.– Huge horses have heavy hoofs.

Metaphor:– A figure of speech in which

something is described as though it were something else

The girl was a fish in the water.

The clown was a feather floating away.

Onomatopoeia:– The use of words that imitate

sounds

Snap Crackle Pop

Glippp Gluppp Gluppp

Personification:– A type of figurative language in

which a non-human subject is given human characteristics

The flowers danced in the wind.

Rhythm:– Pattern of beats or stresses in

spoken or written language

Simile:– uses like or as to make a direct

comparison between two unlike ideas

Stanza:– A set of lines in a poem- a poem

can have 1 stanza or more than 1 stanza

My love is like a red rose.

Symbolism• A symbol is often an ordinary object, event,

person, or animal that has an extraordinary meaning and significance.

A picture of a skull and crossbones symbolizes poison or danger.

Foreshadowing• when an author mentions or hints at

something that will happen later in the story

• FORESHADOWING =.– FORE means ahead.– A SHADOW is a glimpse of something without

the complete details.

Once upon a time, there was a little girl who lived with her mother. Her mother asked her to take her old and lonely grandmother some food one day. "Don't stop along the way. Go straight to your Grandma's house and back. Don't talk to any strangers and watch out for the wolf in the woods! Now get along!"

FlashbackDefine: when an author refers back to

something that already took place in the story

The wolf went up to Little Red Riding Hood and told her that he knew a shortcut. Little Red Riding Hood thought back to what her mother told her. “Don’t talk to any strangers and watch out for the wolf in the woods!” But it was too late, she had already listened to the wolf’s directions.

Hyperbole

Define: when the author uses an extravagant exaggeration to make a point.

Example: It is going to take a bazillion years to get through Medical School.

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Humor & PoetryHumor & Poetry

Limericks• 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.

LimericksThere 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!

Limerick About a BeeI wish that my room had a

floor,I don’t care so much for a

door.But this walking around

Without touching the groundIs getting to be quite a bore.

Another Limerick

There once was a very small mouseWho lived in a very small house,

The ocean’s sprayWashed it away,

All that was left was her blouse!

You will create a limerick similar to this

one…

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.

Fill in the blanks and create your own

Limerick.

There once was a _____ from _____.All the while she/he hoped ________.

So she/he ____________________,And ________________________,

That _________ from ___________.

Haiku is also called nature or seasonal haiku.

Haiku is usually written in the

present tense and focuses on nature

(seasons).

Haiku PoetryDefinition 1

An unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables (5, 7,

5) or 17 syllables in all.

The 5/7/5 rule was made up for school children to understand and learn this

type of poetry.

Haiku PoetryHelpful Hints

Haiku is generally not written in one long run on sentence. It is generally written in

two parts.

You have a fragment on the first or the last line, then you have the body of the

haiku.

Haiku Poetry

Winter sun--a cyclist pedalsagainst the wind