Poetry Notes

1. Poetry Notes

2. Using the following pictures write a sentence with at least 20 words that describes the picture.

4. Is a sentence a poem?

5. What are possible characteristics of a poem? • Figurative language – poetic language used to present regular things as unique • Metaphor • Simile • Hyperbole • Imagery • Personification • Alliteration • onomatopoeia

6. Metaphor – comparison of two unlike things • Simile – comparison of two unlike things using the words like, as, or than • Hyperbole – exaggeration used for emphasis • Imagery – device in which the 5 senses are using to describe • Personification – gives human qualities to unhuman things • Alliteration – repetition of consonant sounds at beginning of words • Onomatopoeia – words that sounds like what they are buzz, zip, click

7. What are some possible elements within a poem? • Rhyme – repetition of sounds at ends of words • Rhythm – pattern of sounds that create a beat • Caesura – a long pause in a line signaled by punctuation • Enjambment - when a line of poetry continues past the line with no punctuation

8. What are some types of poems? • Blank verse – unrhymed iambic pentameter; sounds like normal speech • Free verse – poetry with no particular rhyme or rhythm • Closed form – poetry with a specific rhyme and/or rhythm

9. Is a sentence a poem? • “The Red Wheelbarrow” • By William Carlos Williams So much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens