Unlocking Poetry: Exploring Meaning, Rhyme, and Literary Devices

1. POETRY • literary work in which special intensity is • given to the expression of feelings and • ideas by the use of distinctive style and • rhythm.

2. POETRY ASSUMPTIONS • A poem is to be read for its "message“. • This message is "hidden" in the poem. • The message is to be found by treating the wordsas symbols.

3. RHYME Is the repetition of similar sounds. Words rhyme when they have the same sound. Poems often use rhyme at the end of lines. Rhyme scheme is a pattern of rhymes in a poem. Poets use rhyme to add a musical sound to their poems. I saw a fairy in the wood, He was dressed all in green. He drew his sword while I just stood, And realized I'd been seen. The rhyme scheme of the poem is abab.

4. Stanza • Are a series of lines grouped together and separated by an empty linefrom other stanzas. • They are the equivalentof a paragraph in anessay. One way toidentify a stanza is to countthe number of Lines.

5. Literary devices Alliteration: Repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of several words or sentences or a line of poetry. Examples: Waves want to be wheeles, They jump for it and failt fall flat...

6. Literary devices Imagery: Language that appeals to the five senses. • Are word pictures. • Helps the reader to experience familiar things in a fresh way using the senses. Example: There is a thing beneath the stair with slimy face and oily hair.--------------->Strong imagery /sensory words.

7. Literary devices Personification: type of figure speech that gives human qualities to animal, objects or ideas. Adds life to a poem and helps the reader to view a new familiar thing in a new way. Do parks get lonely? In winter, perhaps, when benches have only snow on their laps?

8. Literary devices • Simile: the comparison of one thing with • another thing of a different kind, used to • make a description more emphatic or vivid. • Example: • as brave as a lion,  • crazy like a fox.

9. True or False • A poem is to be read for its message. • Rhyme is not the repetition of similar sounds. • Words rhyme when they have the same sound. • Rhyme scheme is a path of rhymes in a poem. • Stanzas are a series of lines grouped together and separated by an empty line from other stanzas. • Simil is the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind. • Imagery is the Repetition of the same consonant sound. • Imagery are word pictures. • Personification is a type of figure speech that gives human qualities to animal, objects or ideas.