1 / 11

Poetry

Poetry. Analyzing poetry- When reading poetry, pay attention to the same types of figurative language you look for when reading stories. Watch for: Simile Metaphor Hyperbole Personification Allusion Symbols.

inoke
Download Presentation

Poetry

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Poetry

  2. Analyzing poetry- When reading poetry, pay attention to the same types of figurative language you look for when reading stories. Watch for: Simile Metaphor Hyperbole Personification Allusion Symbols

  3. Theme in poetry- When reading poetry it’s important to analyze the poem for theme, just as you do with a story. 1. Pay attention to the subjects covered by the poem. 2. Determine what the author is trying to make you think or feel about the subject. This is the theme of the poem.

  4. The Form of a poem – The number of lines, rhyme, and number of stanzas. The form of a poem is the way it looks; its structure.

  5. Lines- words in the same row. Stanza - a group of lines of poetry, like a paragraph. There is usually a blank space between stanzas. Poets create stanzas for a reason. The lines belong together.

  6. Rhyme - The repetition of sound, almost always to achieve an effect or to create a rhythm. End rhyme is the repetition of the end sounds of the words at the ends of lines of poetry; Near rhyme or off rhyme- not quite true or pure - "tree" rhyme with "hurry"; Internal rhyme- rhymes a word in the middle of a line of poetry with a word elsewhere in the line.

  7. rhyme scheme- the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem. It is identified by using letters to show which lines rhyme. abab indicates a four-line stanza in which the first and third lines rhyme, as do the second and fourth.

  8. To Anthea, Who May Command Him Any Thing by Robert Herrick: Bid me to weep, and I will weep, While I have eyes to see; And having none, yet I will keep A heart to weep for thee. Sounds in bold are marked with the letter A Sounds underlined are marked with the letter B

  9. What is the rhyme scheme for this poem: There once was a big brown cat That liked to eat a lot of mice. He got all round and fat Because they tasted so nice. Or: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again.

  10. What about this one: "Yes, the zebra is fine. But I think it's a shame, Such a marvelous beast With a cart that's so tame. The story would really be better to hear If the driver I saw were a charioteer. A gold and blue chariot's something to meet, Rumbling like thunder down Mulberry Street!" (Dr. Seuss, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street)

  11. Repetition- Using the same sound, syllable, word, phrase, or line over and over for an effect. Example: 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. Alliteration- When two or more words in a poem begin with the same letter or sound. Example: “Dressy Daffodils.”

More Related