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Slam Poetry Techniques

Slam Poetry Techniques. Slam Poetry Checklist. REQUIRED Beginning, middle, end Rising intensity At least one clear emotion Authenticity -- from your heart? Audience appeal -- can we relate?. Slam Poetry Checklist. MENU of EIGHT OPTIONS

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Slam Poetry Techniques

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  1. Slam Poetry Techniques

  2. Slam Poetry Checklist REQUIRED • Beginning, middle, end • Rising intensity • At least one clear emotion • Authenticity -- from your heart? • Audience appeal -- can we relate?

  3. Slam Poetry Checklist MENU of EIGHT OPTIONS • Repeat an element at least three (up to five) times, with variations • Rhyme at least three times at the end of a line (in the space of eight lines) • Echo the beginning in the ending • Soundplay: stretch the meaning of words by combining them for their sounds (includes alliteration and internal rhyme)

  4. Slam Poetry Checklist MENU of EIGHT OPTIONS • A switcheroo (reversal, inversion, twist) • A line so long you can barely say it in one breath • Specific imagery (literal, or metaphoric/symbolic) • Punchline: strongest emotion in the last line

  5. the grocery store the post office the unemployment line the local train platform at two in the morning this is where you will find poetry Jessica Care Moore

  6. when i get the money, i’mgonna pitch the first ball in the world series, andi’mgonna buy the stanley cup, and i’mgonna sit so close to andreagassiat wimbledonthat i’ll be able to stab him over and over again in-between sets (and i’ll get away with it), and i’mgonna make jabba the hutt a quarterback, and i’mgonna be the towel boy for the laker girls, and i’mgonna force pro wrestlers to wrestle, and i’mgonna parachute off of manhattan skyscrapers, because i want to impress the simple of mind. Beau Sia

  7. On the table you put your feelings in a box and said they were whole Wholly mine a moth-eaten sweater Buried under layers of clothing even in the strongest winter I'll never wear. Ava Chin

  8. (Beginning) Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen.If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now. ... (Ending) But trust me on the sunscreen. Mary Schmich

  9. I’m a nonbeliever and an overachiever, laid-back but fashion-forward. Upfront, downhome, low rent, high maintenance. Supersized, long lasting, high definition, fast acting, oven ready and built to last! I’m a hands-on, footloose, kneejerk headcase prematurely post-traumatic, and I’ve got a love child that sends me hate mail. George Carlin

  10. are you the first son the only son the last son the lost son the sun to my moon the son who leaves SuheirHammad

  11. Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday. Mary Schmich

  12. my belly flip-flops belly flip-flops land of smoke shops death in hip-hops black justice at the hands of white cops Willie Perdomo

  13. He reminds the other dinner guests that it’s truewhat they say about teachers: Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach. I decide to bite my tongue instead of his and resist the temptation to remind the dinner guests that it’s also true what they say about lawyers. Because we’re eating, after all, and this is polite conversation.Taylor Mali

  14. even when Ali needed mo' machismo he put dopes on the rope with a butterfly float, flippant wrist let loose noose's grip Tracie Morris

  15. Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly. Mary Schmich

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