Poetry

1. Poetry

2. What is poetry? • Poetry is a type of writing • Uses words • Intense focus on expression of feelings or ideas • Not just feelings • Uses distinctive rhythm or style • Sounds of words, syllables, emphasis

3. Key Terms • Writer – person that wrote the poem • Speaker – “narrator” of the poem • Line – one line of poetry • Stanza – “paragraph” of poem

4. Patterns • Rhythm – the pattern of emphasis on the words • Rhyme – repeated end sounds of words • Alliteration – repeated beginning sound of word • Consonance – repeated consonant sound in words • Assonance – repeated vowel sound in words

5. Figurative Language • Allusion • Simile • Metaphor • Personification

6. Humans are Rhythmic • What are some patterns that we go through as human beings? • As creatures of the earth? • What patterns do we see in ourselves and nature?

7. Rhythm and Meter • Like in music: pattern of emphasis • Breaking it down further • Poem • Line • Word • Syllable • Two types

8. Don’t get over STRESSED • Stressed and unstressed syllables • When looking at poetry analysis, it looks like this

9. What does it do? • Some poetry is categorized by its rhythm pattern • Different kinds of rhythmic units or FEET

10. Some examples da DUM da da DUM da da DUMda DUM da da DUM da da DUMda DUM da da DUMda DUM da da DUMda DUM da da DUM da da DUM A flea and a fly in a flue Were caught, so what could they do? Said the fly, "Let us flee." "Let us fly," said the flea So they flew through a flaw in the flue -Anonymous

11. A flea and a fly in a flue Were caught, so what could they do? Said the fly, "Let us flee." "Let us fly," said the flea So they flew through a flaw in the flue