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Poetry Term Examples
Figure out which terms are shown in each slide!
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Look for TWO poetry terms in this one!
Peter Piper Picked A Peck Of Pickled Peppers.If Peter Piper Picked A Peck Of Pickled Peppers,Where Are The Pickled Peppers That Peter Piper Picked?
Example #1 2
ANSWER:
Alliteration
Repetition
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Look for THREE poetry terms in this one!
"Ah, William, we're weary of weather,"said the sunflowers, shining with dew."Our traveling habits have tired us.Can you give us a room with a view?"
They arranged themselves at the windowand counted the steps of the sun,and they both took root in the carpetwhere the topaz tortoises run.
Example #2 4
ANSWER:
PersonificationRhymeAlliteration
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Look for ONE poetry term in this one!
“... the moan of doves in immemorial elms,And murmuring of innumerable bees.”
Example #3 6
ANSWER:
Onomatopoeia
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Look for THREE poetry terms in this one!
“I looked upon the rotting sea,And drew my eyes away;I looked upon the rotting deck,And there the dead men lay.”
Example #4 8
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ANSWER:
RepetitionRhythmRhyme
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Look for FOUR poetry terms in this one!
“Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink;Water, water, everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.”
Excerpt from:
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Example #5 10
ANSWER:
IronyRhymeRepetitionAlliteration
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Look for FOUR poetry terms in this one!
“O My Luve's like a red, red rose,That's newly sprung in June;O My Luve's like the melodieThat's sweetly played in tune.”
Example #6 12
ANSWER:
SimileRhymeAlliterationRepetition
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Look for TWO poetry terms in this one!
“My life is a dream,like a tiger wakingup from her deep sleep.”
Example #7 14
ANSWER:
Simile
Metaphor
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Poetry in Motion
Feet Talk by Constance Levy
Listen to your feettell you where they walk:
gravel crackles,grass squeaks,sneaker slapson hard concrete.
Tune in tofriendly chitchat of feet meeting feethurried shuffles, clacks, thumpscrossing busy streets
Hear your feet talkstreet talk!
8. What are the five examples of onomatopoeia?
9. What are the three examples of personification?
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Feet Talk by Constance Levy
Listen to your feettell you where they walk:
gravel crackles,grass squeaks,sneaker slapson hard concrete.
Tune in tofriendly chitchat of feet meeting feethurried shuffles, clacks, thumpscrossing busy streets
Hear your feet talkstreet talk!
8. There are five examples of onomatopeia.
9. There are three examples of personification.
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Rain in Summerby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and heat,
In the broad and fiery street,
In the narrow lane,
How beautiful is the rain!
How it clatters along the roofs,
Like the tramp of hoofs!
How it gushes and struggles out
From the throat of the overflowing spout!
Across the window-pane
It pours and pours;
And swift and wide,
With a muddy tide,
Like a river down the gutter roars
The rain, the welcome rain!
10. What are the two similes in this poem?
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Rain in Summerby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and heat,
In the broad and fiery street,
In the narrow lane,
How beautiful is the rain!
How it clatters along the roofs,
Like the tramp of hoofs!
How it gushes and struggles out
From the throat of the overflowing spout!
Across the window-paneIt pours and pours;And swift and wide,With a muddy tide,Like a river down the gutter
roarsThe rain, the welcome rain!
The first simile helps you imagine and “hear” the rain described in the poem.
The second simile compares the sound of the rain to a swift, wide, muddy river.
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from from The Bat PoetThe Bat Poetby Randall Jarrellby Randall Jarrell
A bat is bornA bat is bornNaked and blind and pale.Naked and blind and pale.His mother makes a pocket His mother makes a pocket
of her tailof her tailAnd catches him. He clings And catches him. He clings
to her long furto her long furBy his thumbs and toes and By his thumbs and toes and
teeth.teeth.And then the mother And then the mother
dances through the nightdances through the nightDoubling and looping, Doubling and looping,
soaring , somersaulting--soaring , somersaulting--
Her baby hangs Her baby hangs underneath.underneath.
All night, in happiness, she All night, in happiness, she hunts and flies.hunts and flies.
11. What are two 11. What are two examples of examples of alliteration in this alliteration in this poem excerpt?poem excerpt?
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from from The Bat PoetThe Bat Poetby Randall Jarrellby Randall Jarrell
A A bat is bornbat is bornNaked and blind and pale.Naked and blind and pale.His His mother makes mother makes a a
pocket of her tailpocket of her tailAnd catches him. He clings And catches him. He clings
to her long furto her long furBy his thumbs andBy his thumbs and toes toes
and teeth.and teeth.And then the mother And then the mother
dances through the nightdances through the nightDoubling and looping, Doubling and looping,
soaring , soaring , somersaulting--somersaulting--
Her baby hangs Her baby hangs underneath.underneath.
All night, in happiness, All night, in happiness, she hunts and flies.she hunts and flies.
The fourth The fourth example of example of alliteration gives alliteration gives you the sense of you the sense of the bat dancing the bat dancing gracefully through gracefully through the night.the night.
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Humanizing the World
Computers are “user-friendly”
“misery loves company”
“the future beckons”
QUESTION:
12. Which poetry term is represented in these examples?
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Humanizing the World
Computers are “user-friendly”
“misery loves company”
“the future beckons”
QUESTION:
12. Which poetry term is represented in these examples?
ANSWER:
Personification
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E.K. Hornbeck Returns!E.K. Hornbeck Returns!
““You know what I thought of him,You know what I thought of him,And I know what you thought.And I know what you thought.Let us leave the lamentations to the illiterate!Let us leave the lamentations to the illiterate!Why should we weep for him? He cried enough for Why should we weep for him? He cried enough for
himself!himself!The national tear-duct from Weeping Water, The national tear-duct from Weeping Water,
Nebraska,Nebraska,Who flooded the whole nation like a one-man Who flooded the whole nation like a one-man
Mississippi!Mississippi!You know what he was:You know what he was:A A Barnum-bunkum Bible-beating bastardBarnum-bunkum Bible-beating bastard!!””
13. Which two poetry termsappear in Hornbeck’s poetic lines?
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E.K. Hornbeck Returns!E.K. Hornbeck Returns!
““You know what I thought of him,You know what I thought of him,And I know what you thought.And I know what you thought.Let us leave the lamentations to the illiterate!Let us leave the lamentations to the illiterate!Why should we weep for him? He cried enough for Why should we weep for him? He cried enough for
himself!himself!The national tear-duct from Weeping Water, Nebraska,The national tear-duct from Weeping Water, Nebraska,Who flooded the whole nation like a one-man Who flooded the whole nation like a one-man
Mississippi!Mississippi!You know what he was:You know what he was:A A Barnum-bunkum Bible-beating bastardBarnum-bunkum Bible-beating bastard!!””
13. Which two poetry termsappear in Hornbeck’s poetic lines?Answer: Simile and
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Rachel BrownRachel Brown’’ss ““Ah-HaAh-Ha”” Moment Moment
““Mr. Drummond, I hope I havenMr. Drummond, I hope I haven’’t said t said anything to offend you. You see, I anything to offend you. You see, I havenhaven’’t really thought very much. I t really thought very much. I was always afraid of what I might think-was always afraid of what I might think-so it seemed safer not to think at all. so it seemed safer not to think at all. But now I know. But now I know. A thought is like a A thought is like a child inside our body. child inside our body. It has to be born. It has to be born. If it dies inside you, part of you dies If it dies inside you, part of you dies too!too!”” 14. What poetry
term appears in Rachel’s lines?
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Rachel BrownRachel Brown’’ss ““Ah-HaAh-Ha”” Moment Moment
““Mr. Drummond, I hope I havenMr. Drummond, I hope I haven’’t said t said anything to offend you. You see, I anything to offend you. You see, I havenhaven’’t really thought very much. I t really thought very much. I was always afraid of what I might think-was always afraid of what I might think-so it seemed safer not to think at all. so it seemed safer not to think at all. But now I know. But now I know. A thought is like a A thought is like a child inside our bodychild inside our body. It has to be born. . It has to be born. If it dies inside you, part of you dies If it dies inside you, part of you dies too!too!””
14. What poetry term appears in Rachel’s lines?Answer: Simile
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