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    Elements of Poetry

    (title of your Cornell Notes Page)

    •Start this Powerpoint slide show by going to the Slide


    Show tab and selecting “From Beginning”
    •Copy the following definitions in your journal:
    Alliteration
    • Repetition of the initial consonant
    sound

    “She sells seashells at the sea shore”


    Hyperbole
    • A great exaggeration
    • EXAMPLE: “He lassoed the tornado as
    he rode his horse across the plains.”
    Imagery
    • descriptive language that applies to the
    senses – sight, sound, touch, taste, or smell.
    Some images appeal to more than one sense.
    Metaphor

    • Direct Metaphor
    – Comparing two unlike objects or ideas

    My love is a rose
    Metaphor, Continued
    • Indirect metaphor
    - An indirect comparison between two unlike things.

    “My love has a rosy bloom”


    Onomatopoeia
    • Onomatopoeia is the use of words that
    imitate sounds.

    • Wham! Splat! Pow! I am in trouble now!


    Personification
    • Giving human qualities to an inanimate
    object

    “The moon smiled down on the lovers”

    A MOON CAN’T
    SMILE…
    Repetition
    • Repetition is used to make an impact on
    the poem’s tone. Words or phrases are
    repeated throughout the poem.
    • Here comes summer,
    • Here comes summer,
    • Chirping robin, budding rose.
    • Here comes summer,
    • Here comes summer,
    • Gentle showers, summer clothes.
    • By Shel Silverstein
    Rhyme Scheme
    - pattern of rhyming words in a poem
    Examples:

    Twinkle, twinkle little star a


    How I wonder what you are. a
    Up above the earth so high, b
    Like a diamond in the sky. b

    Baa, baa, black sheep a


    Have you any wool? b
    Yes sir, yes sir, c
    Three bags full. b
    Rhythm
    • Rhythm is the pattern of sound created by the
    arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables
    in a line. Rhythm can be regular or irregular.
    Example:

    I think that I shall never see


    a poem lovely as a tree.

    The purple words/syllables are “stressed”


    creating rhythm.
    Simile
    • A comparison using like or as

    “Life is like a box of chocolates”


    Poetry should be read aloud!
    Make sure your earphones are
    on and
    Click on the links to listen…
    • James Earl Jones reciting from Othello by Shakespeare
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJybA1emr_g&featur
    e=SeriesPlayList&p=1ECEA36D759093A1
    • An Evening of Poetry, Music and the Written Word at the
    White House, President and First Lady Obama
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUfekqAJHeI

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