Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. --Edgar
Allan Poe Poetry: the best words in the best order. Samuel Taylor
Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poetry is when an emotion has
found its thought and the thought has found words. --Robert Frost
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself. Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg
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A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a
story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)
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Poetic License License or liberty taken by a poet, writer, or
other artist to deviate from rule, form, logic, or fact, in order
to produce a desired effect.
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Two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the
divisions of a poem.
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Figurative Language and Poetic Devices Tools of the Trade
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Comparing 2 things using like or as I caught a tremendous fish
and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast
in a corner of its mouth. He didnt fight. He hadnt fought at all.
He hung a grunting weight, battered and venerable and homely. Here
and there his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper, and
its pattern of darker brown was like wallpaper: shapes like
full-blown roses stained and lost through age.
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Stating one thing is another My family lives inside a medicine
chest: Dad is the super-size band aid, strong and powerful but not
always effective in a crisis. Mom is the middle-size tweezer, which
picks and pokes and pinches. David is the single small aspirin on
the third shelf, sometimes ignored. Muffin, the sheep dog, is a
round cotton ball, stained and dirty, that pops off the shelf and
bounces in my way as I open the door. And I am the wood and glue
which hold us all together with my love.
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A figure of speech in which nonliving things are given human
qualities or human form. Examples: Hunger sat shivering on the road
Flowers danced about the lawn. Proud Words By Carl Sandburg Look
out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not
easy to call them back. They wear long boots, hard boots, they walk
off proud; they cant hear you calling Look out how you use proud
words.
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A figure of speech that give force or intensity to what we say
or write; it is exaggeration! It can be serious, but hyperbole is
often used in a humorous way. EXAMPLES: Im so hungry, I could eat a
horse! She is older than the hills. "she broke a chisel trying to
get it off last night!" Johnny, from Prescott Middle School, Baton
Rouge, Louisiana, USA "Marilyn Manson freaked out when he saw her!"
Nizam, from Bukit Panjang Gov't H. S., Singapore "she has to use a
sandblaster to get it off at night." Margaret "that I haven't seen
her real face for years..." Nivedita "when she smiles her cheeks
fall off." Ed "by the time she gets it all on, it's time to take it
off!" Josh W. "at night she has to get the paint scraper to take it
off." Beth Atkins Courtesy of www.worsleyschool.net My sister uses
so much makeup
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Words that imitate the sound they are naming Buzz BOO M
Chirp
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Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words If Peter
Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers
did Peter Piper pick?
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Repetition of vowel sounds Assonance is used to convey and
reinforce some meaning or to link ideas in the poem. Tune/food
Cacophony Sharp, hissing words Ungainly, ghastly, gaunt
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Occurrence of same or similar sounds at the end of two or more
words Ex: cat/hat, desire/fire, observe/deserve
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His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy Theres vomit
on his sweater already, moms spaghetti Hes nervous, but on the
surface he looks calm and ready To drop bombs, but he keeps on
forgetting
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Internal rhyme Rhymes inside the same line External rhyme
Rhymes that are the last words Slant rhyme Inexact rhymes:
dizzy/lazy
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Pattern of rhymes used in a poem usually marked by letters abab
aabb abcb
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The Germ by Ogden Nash A mighty creature is the germ, Though
smaller than the pachyderm. His customary dwelling place Is deep
within the human race. His childish pride he often pleases By
giving people strange diseases. Do you, my poppet, feel infirm? You
probably contain a germ. aabbccaaaabbccaa
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Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I
think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see
me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little
horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between
the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives
his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only
other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are
lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go
before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
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The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I
hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy.
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Recurrences of stressed and unstressed syllables at equal
intervals, similar to meter.
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Syllabic meter Counting the number of syllables in each line
Foot Meter counting the number of feet per line
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Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the
village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods
fill up with snow.
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Iambic pentameter is a meter in poetry. It refers to a line
consisting of five iambic feet. The word "pentameter" simply means
that there are five feet in the
line;meterpoetryiambicfeetpentameter An iambic foot is an
unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. We could write
the rhythm like this: daDUM A line of iambic pentameter is five of
these in a row: daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM We can notate this
with a u' mark representing an unstressed syllable and a '/' mark
representing a stressed syllable. In this notation a line of iambic
pentameter would look like this: u/u/u/u/u/ To swell the gourd, and
plump the hazel shells We can notate the scansion of this as
follows:scansion u / u / u / u / u / To swell the gourd,and plump
the ha-zel shells
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iambic pentameter (5 iambs, 10 syllables) unstressed+stressed
That time | of year | thou mayst | in me | behold trochaic
tetrameter (4 trochees, 8 syllables) Tell me | not in | mournful |
numbers anapestic trimeter (3 anapests, 9 syllables) And the sound
| of a voice | that is still dactylic hexameter (6 dactyls, 12
syllables;) This is the | forest pri | meval, the | murmuring |
pine and the | hemlocks
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1. Shall I compare thee to a summers day? 2. Laugh at the
stupid, but cry for the weaker one 3. Beat the clear and sunny
water
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provides an answer to question, What is the work about?
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The writers attitude toward the work. May be playful, formal,
intimate, angry, serious, ironic, baffled, outraged, tender,
serene, depressed, etc.
Language that appeals to the senses. Many images are visual,
but they can also appeal to the senses of sound, touch, taste, or
smell. then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday
weather.. from Those Winter Sundays By Robert Hayden
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SYMBOLISM When a person, place, thing, or event that has
meaning in itself also represents, or stands for, something else. =
Innocence = America = Peace
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Blank verse Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Shakespeare wrote most of his plays in blank verse Free verse
Unrhymed poetry with lines of varying length with no specific
patterns
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Rhyming stanzas made up of 2 lines
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Poets repeat words and sounds for effect or emphasis. I'm
nobody! Who are You? I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too?
Then there's a pair of us-don't tell! They'd banish us you know.
How dreary to be somebody! how public, like a frog. To tell your
name livelong day To an admiring bog! Emily Dickinson
1830-1885
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Poets repeat words and sounds for effect or emphasis. I'm
nobody! Who are You? I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too?
Then there's a pair of us-don't tell! They'd banish us you know.
How dreary to be somebody! how public, like a frog. To tell your
name livelong day To an admiring bog! Emily Dickinson
1830-1885
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A lyric poem that is 14 lines long
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A Japanese poem written in three lines, usually about nature.
Five Syllables Seven Syllables Five Syllables The soaring sea gulls
Against a summer blue sky Gliding on the breeze. By Russell Sills,
Grade 9
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I
nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some
one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. `'Tis some
visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door - Only this, and
nothing more.' Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak
December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the
floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore - For
the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore - Nameless
here for evermore.
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Tercets are any three lines of poetry, whether as a stanza or
as a poem, rhymed or unrhymed, metered or unmetered. The haiku is a
tercet poem. Another common tercet is: Enclosed tercet- a triplet
that rhymes "aba". I am a yellow dog who wishes he was a
purple-spotted frog.