Poetry Poetry An Introduction

By Mrs. Sample

• Poems can be written about anything.

• They contain ideas, feelings, and sounds into a few words or sentences.

Key Elements of Poetry• Form• Speaker• Sound• Imagery• Figurative Language

• The way a poem looks on the page.

• Poems are written in lines.

• Lines are grouped into stanzas.

StructuredForm

Repeated Pattern

Free Verse

No Repeated Pattern

Roses Are Red

Roses are red.Violets are blue.Sugar is sweet.And so are you.—Anonymous

Nikki Giovanni once a snowflake fellon my brow and i lovedit so much and i kissedit and it was happy and called its cousinsand brothers and a webof snow engulfed me theni reached to love them alland i squeezed them and they becamea spring rain and i stood perfectlystill and was a flower

Your Turn!

• The speaker of the poem is the voice that relates the story or idea of the poem. The speaker may be the poet, speaking directly to the reader, or the speaker may be a character or voice created by the poet.

Voice may include…Dialect•A form of language spoken in a certain place by a certain group of people.

Idiom• A descriptive expression that means something different than the combination of the words that make it up.

• Most poems are meant to be read aloud.

• Poets arrange poets to create a sound.

There are 4 techniques that create sound

1. Rhyme:2. Rhythm3. Repetition4. Onomatopoeia

• Imagery is language that appeals to the reader’s five senses- sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.

•Sight

•Hearing

•Smell

•Taste

•Touch

Figurative Language• language which expresses more

than a literal meaning

Types of Figurative Language

• Simile• Metaphor• Analogy• Personification• Hyperbole• Onomatopoeia• Alliteration

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