1 / 22

The Vibrant World of Poetry

Explore the colors, motion, and excitement of poetry as it appeals to our senses and inspires new ways of looking at the world. Discover the basic elements of poetry such as form, sound, imagery, and figurative language.

danials
Download Presentation

The Vibrant World of Poetry

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Poetry p. 191-195

  2. A Simile to explain poetry • Poetry is like a circus. • Full of color, motion, and excitement

  3. Poetry appeals to our senses • Pleasing to the eyes • Sings to the ears • Tickles the taste buds

  4. What is Prose? • Prose • Short stories, novels, newspapers, any type of essay • Longer, looser works or paragraphs • Everything poetry is not!

  5. What does Poetry do? • Squeezes meaning into a short number of lines and words • Ends in a specific place to make a special effect • Stanzas

  6. Language of the Poet • Suggestion • Exaggeration • Comparison

  7. Poetry also… • Poetry inspires the reader to look at the world in new ways • Poetry expresses feeling • Brief, rhythmic, colorful • Tells stories in a compact fashion

  8. Basic Elements of Poetry • Form • Speaker • Sound • Imagery • Figurative Language

  9. Form • The way a poem looks on a page. • Poems are written in lines or shapes • Stanzas-lines grouped together

  10. Form • Free Verse • No pattern or structure • Sounds like conversation • Specific Forms • Limerick, Diamonte, Shape, etc.

  11. Refrain • A line or group of lines repeated at regular intervals, appears in some songs and poems

  12. Speaker • The voice that relates the story or ideas of the poem • Poet • Person who writes poetry • Speaker may be… • Poet • Character or voice

  13. Sound • Words are used to create appealing sounds. • Four Techniques: • Rhyme • Rhythm • Repetition • Onomatopoeia

  14. Rhyme • The repetition of the same or similar sounds in words that appear near each other in a poem. • End Rhyme: rhyme that comes at the end of lines • Perfect Rhyme: Rhymes that after their first consonant sounds, their remaining sounds are alike

  15. Rhyme Scheme • The pattern of end rhymes in a poem. • Lowercase letters describe the scheme. A limerick is aabba. The first two lines rhyme, the second two lines rhyme, and the first two rhyme with the last.

  16. Rhythm • The pattern of beats made by stressed or unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem • Meter-regular stressed and unstressed beats

  17. Repetition • The repeated use of sounds, words, phrases, or lines, it emphasizes important items, and helps unify a poem or other work of literature

  18. Onomatopoeia • The use of words whose sounds suggest their meanings. • Crack, boom, bang!

  19. Imagery • Image or mental picture that is created with words which appeal to one or more of the senses; sight, sound, taste, touch, smell

  20. Figurative Language • Poet uses language that stretches words beyond their usual meaning • Alliteration, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, etc.

  21. Meaning • The central idea or emotion behind the poem • Restate the poem in your own words, paraphrase, ask yourself is the poem about a person? Place? Thing? Feeling? Idea? • What emotion do you feel when you read the poem? • Who is the speaker?

  22. Reading Poetry Strategies • Preview the poem and read it aloud a few times. • Visualize the images. • Clarify the words and phrases. • Evaluate the poem’s theme. • Let your understanding grow.

More Related