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Characteristics of poetry

• Is usually intended to be read aloud• Uses words to create images• Some rhyme, some do not• Narrative poetry is meant to tell a

story (think narrator)– Follows the plot map

Stanza

• Lines of poetry grouped together

“Hope” is the thing with feathers-That perches in the soulAnd sings the tune without the wordsAnd never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;And sore must be the stormThat could abash the little birdThat kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chilliest landAnd on the strangest sea,Yet never, in extremity,It asked a crumb of me.

Refrain• A line in a poem that is repeated at regular

intervals.

“It was not I that ate the pie”

Bobby said that he would give me his right shoeFor a piece of the sweet treat

And I thought that it would be nice to have another shoeBut no,

It was not I that ate that pie

Jimmy caught a sniff while sneaking through our yard He would give me a fistful of mice for just one slice

I told him I needed a left shoe,But no,

It was not I that ate that pie

Then Mary walked by my door,I told her she could test the rest

For the smallest peck,But no,

It was not I that ate that pie.

rhyme

• End rhymes-occur at the end of the line Now the name of the little black kitten was Ink,

And the little gray mouse, she called her Blink, And the little yellow dog was sharp as Mustard,

But the dragon was a coward she called him Custard.

• Internal rhymes- occur within lines I was sad because my dad

Made me eat every beet.

Similes and Metaphors• I wandered lonely as a cloud.

• The moon was a ghostly galleon.

• He watches from his mountain walls and like a thunderbolt, he falls.

AlliterationAlliteration is the repeated occurrence of the same

consonant sound at the beginning of several words in the same phrase.

A well-known example is the Mother Goose tongue- twister, “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers ".

other examples• Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout• crusty crumbs• dead duck• French fries

OnomatopoeiaOnomatopoeia is a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing, such as

animal noises like "oink" or "meow", or suggesting its source object, such as “boom”, “click”, “clang”

• Growl• Knock• Tap • whistle• scream

Rhyme Scheme• Pattern of end rhymes in a poem• Use a separate letter of the alphabet

for each end rhyme.

One evening as the sun went down and the jungle fire was burning Down the track came a hobo hiking, and he said "boys I'm not turning "I'm headed for a land that's far away, beside the crystal fountains

"So come with me, we'll go and see the Big Rock Candy Mountains"

Rhyme scheme cont’d

There once was a big brown cat      That liked to eat a lot of mice.         He got all round and fat                  Because they tasted so nice.           

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

• You do not have to use complete sentences

• For number 3, make sure you tell who the simile is about

• For number 9, I will accept any rhyme in the stanza

• Inhabitants live somewhere• #13 – put just the letter pattern on

your paper

• You do not have to use complete sentences

• #3 – you just have to give the two words