Poetry

1. Poetry English

2. Poetry Forms You Will Create! • Haiku • Cinquain • Diamante • Rhyming • Free Verse

3. Poetic Devices • Alliteration- the initial sounds of a word, beginning either with a consonant or a vowel, repeated in close succession. • Assonance- the close repetition of similar vowels, usually in stressed syllables, in neighboring words • Metaphor-is a figure of speech that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects

4. Poetic Devices • Onomatopoeia- the use of words whose sounds seem to express or reinforce their meanings • Personification- attributing human qualities or actions to animals, inanimate objects or abstract ideas • Simile- a comparison in which one thing is identified with another, linked by the words “like” or “as”

5. Poetic Devices to Identify… • simile metaphor • personification imagery • onomatopoeia alliteration • end rhyme internal rhyme • assonance consonance

6. Poetry Book Contents… • Choose 3 poems by published authors. • Create 5 original poems- use 5 different types of the poems types explained in class. • Link your poems together by theme- theme is a recurring element or message. What do your poems have in common? • Label 5 poetic devices found in any of your 8 poems. Write the definition for each of these terms. • Include 5 illustrations to highlight theme and meaning in your poetry book.

7. What’s a Footnote?! • A footnote is additional* information to support the text. It can be found at the bottom of the page outside of normal text. A starred marking within the text shows what the footnote relates to. *Additional can mean supplementary or extra.

8. Footnote Example • A Time To Talk by Robert Frost When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don’t stand still and look around On all the hills I haven’t hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall* For a friendly visit. *Tall/ Wall- End Rhyme- similar sounding words at the ends of lines in a poem

9. Poetry Book Cover • Your Name • Theme/ Recurring Subject • English, Class Period • Eye Catching Illustration!

10. Table of Contents • Title this page “Table of Contents.” • List the poems in order. • Include page numbers. Table of Contents "I’m Not Lonely" -Nikki Giovanni Page 1 "Fire and Ice" -Robert Frost Page 3

11. Theme?! • Theme:The central message in a literary work; the author’s intended message. • Example Themes- Love Conquers All Celebrating Nature Joy Found in Simple Things Importance of Friendship

12. Poetry Book Rubric Points Possible Points Earned • Table of Contents 10 ______ • 5 Illustrations 10 ______ • 5 Original Poems 25 ______ • 3 Published Poems 20 ______ • Literary terms (Footnotes) 25 ______ • Theme 10 ______ • Total 100 ______

13. cinquain A cinquain is a five-line poem that describes a person, place, or thing with a focus on syllable structure. Cinquainpoems have the following pattern: • Line 1………… 2 syllables • Line 2 ………… 4 syllables • Line 3 ………… 6 syllables • Line 4 ………… 8 syllables • Line 5 ………… 2 syllables

14. Haiku Poetry Pattern: Example: 1st Line: 5 syllables Slowly the moon smiles. 2nd Line: 7 syllables It makes his eyes dance wildly. 3rd Line: 5 syllables He winks at the stars.

15. Diamante dessert a one-word title, a noun cold, creamy two adjectives eating, giggling, licking three -ing participles cone with three scoops a phrase ice cream a synonym for your title

16. Rhyming Poem “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To know that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

17. Free Verse Poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Willams so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.