Poetry

Vocabulary

1. Alliteration:
2. Allusion:

Repetition of initial consonant sounds A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

3. Ballad:

4. Blank Verse:

A song-like poem that tells a story

Poetry written in unrhymed, tensyllable lines

5. Concrete Poem:
A poem with a shape that suggests its subject Writing that is not meant to be taken literally Poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter A three-lined Japanese verse

6. Figurative Language:

7. Free Verse:

8. Haiku:

9. Image:
A word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses Highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else

10. Lyric Poem:

11. Metaphor:

12. Mood:
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work A story told in verse

13. Narrative Poem:

14. Onomatopoeia:

The use of words that imitate sounds

A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics

15. Personification:

16. Refrain:
A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem The use, more than once, of any element of language Repetition of sounds at the end of words A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem

17. Repetition:

18. Rhyme:

19. Rhyme Scheme:

20.Rhythm:

Pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language 21. Simile:

My love is like a red rose.

A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas

22.Stanza:

A formal division of lines in a poem considered as a unit

Poetry
Humor & Poetry

Humor
Humor in poetry can arise from a number of sources:
Surprise Exaggeration Bringing together of unrelated things

Most funny poems have two things in common:

Rhythm Rhyme

Rhythm & Rhyme

Using more spirited language makes humorous situations even more humorous

The Porcupine By Ogden Nash

Any hound a porcupine nudges Cant be blamed for harboring grudges. I know one hound that laughed all winter At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.

If you take away the rhythm and rhyme, the humor vanishes.
Any hound that touches a porcupine Cant be blamed for holding a grudge I know one hound that laughed all winter long At a porcupine that sat on a piece of wood

Lewis Carroll
1832-1898
Born in England Wrote Alices Adventures in Wonderland Wrote Through the Looking Glass His life was quiet and uneventful, but in works like Father William, he found escape from his serious work into a delightfully zany, topsy-turvy world that still amuses children old and young.

Father William
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In this poem, a young man questions his father about some rather unusual behavior. Have you ever asked someone what they were doing and received an explanation that made very little sense at all?

Limericks
A limerick is a poem of five lines The first, second, and fifth lines have three rhythmic beats and rhyme with one another. The third and fourth lines have two beats and rhyme with one another. They are always light-hearted, humorous poems.

Limericks
There once was a man with no hair. He gave everyone quite a scare. He got some Rogaine, Grew out a mane, And now he resembles a bear!

Limerick About a Bee

I wish that my room had a floor, I dont care so much for a door. But this walking around Without touching the ground Is getting to be quite a bore.

Another Limerick
There once was a very small mouse Who lived in a very small house, The oceans spray Washed it away, All that was left was her blouse!

You will create a limerick similar to this one

There once was a man from Beijing. All his life he hoped to be King. So he put on a crown, Which quickly fell down. That small silly man from Beijing.

Fill in the blanks and create your own Limerick.

There once was a _____ from _____. All the while she/he hoped ________. So she/he ____________________, And ________________________, That _________ from ___________.

Mrs. Smiths Limerick:

There once was a man from Japan. All the while he hoped for a tan. So he lay on the beach, And ate a ripe peach, That came from a Georgia van.

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