MORE Poetry Techniques!

1. MORE Poetry Techniques!

2. Imagery • The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas • Using sensory language to create mental images • “I clutch the rails of the fence, my gore dribs, thinn’d with the ooze of my skin”

3. Practice imagery • You have thirty seconds to view the picture on the following slide. Then, use imagery to re-create the scene in your own free-verse poem.

5. Parallel Structure • The repetition of single words or phrases: • “Born here of parentsborn here from parents the same, and their parents the same”

6. Practice parallel structure • Create a QUATRAIN that includes at least one example of parallel structure about your family.

7. Alliteration • The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables • The small swallow sailed through the sky.

8. Last names ending in A-M: Write a short description of a small child eating a melting ice cream cone, using alliteration. Last names ending in N-Z: Write a short description of a bull rider getting ready to come out of the chute, using alliteration. Practice alliteration

9. Assonance • The repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds • “My tongue, every atom of my blood, formed from this soil…”

10. Practice assonance • Examine the picture on the right. Write a few lines describing what you see, using assonance

11. Onomatopoeia • The formation or use of words such as buzz or bang that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.

12. Practice onomatopoeia • A poem titled “When Carly Eats Spaghetti” is on the following slide. As you read it, write down words that are examples of onomatopoeia.

13. “When Carly Eats Spaghetti” When Carly eats spaghetti, She chomps and gobbles and slurps, The spaghetti disappears with a whoosh Sauce slapping and smacking Round her chops. She scrapes the toast round the plate Crunching, grinding every mouthful. She burps, gurgles and leaves the table!