Anna's Book of Poetry

1. Anna's Book of Poetry By: Anna Clark 4th Period; Miss Cadden

2. Table Of Contents • Definitions (pages 2-4) • Literary Devices (page 2) • Poetry Types (page 3) • Poetry Forms (page 4) • Literary Device Examples (pages 5-9) • Poetry Examples (pages 10-17) • About the Author (page 18) 1

3. Literary Devices -definitions • Assonance - Repeated sounds of the vowels in the words of lines in poetry • Alliteration - Consonant sounds repeated at the beginning of words • Onomatopoeia - Words that imitate the sound they are naming • Personification - When inanimate objects or abstractions are given human qualities or form • Rhyme - Words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sound • Hyperbole - When exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect • Simile - When two unlike things are compared, often in a phrase having like or as • Metaphor - One thing being used as representing another; a symbol • Imagery - The use of descriptive words to represent objects, actions, or ideas • Allusion -An indirect reference to a event, person, place, or artistic work 2

4. Poetry Types -definitions • Acrostic - A poem or series of lines in which certain letters form a name, motto, or message when read in sequence • Prose - Ordinary speech or writing, without metrical structure • Epic - A narrative poem celebrating the feats of a legendary or traditional hero • Ballad - A narrative poem, often intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas and usually having a refrain • Limerick - A light humorous, nonsensical, or bawdy verse of five anapestic lines usually with the rhyme scheme aabba • Haiku - A Japanese poem written in three lines • Lyric Poem - A poem usually written in first person point of view that expresses an emotion or an idea or describes a scene; doesn’t tell a story and are often musical • Narrative - A non-dramatic poem in which the author tells a story 3

5. Poetry Forms -definitions • Stanza - A group of lines arranged together • Rhythm - The patterned, recurring changes of elements in sound or speech. • Rhyme Scheme - Pattern of rhyme; uses letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually “see’ the pattern • Quatrain - Four line stanza • Couplet - Two line stanza 4

6. Literary Device Examples • Assonance: • “That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea.” • - William Butler Yates • 2. Alliteration: • “Dewdrops Dancing Down Daisies”“Don't delay dawns disarming display. Dusk demands daylight. Dewdrops dwell delicatelydrawing dazzling delight.Dewdrops dilute daisies domain. Distinguished debutantes. Diamonds defray delivereddaylights distilled daisy dance.” • -Paul McCann 5

7. Literary Device Examples (cont.) 3. Onomatopoeia: “Knock-knock. Who's there? Boo Boo who? Don't cry, I was only joking” 4. Personification: “Flowers danced about the lawn.” 6

8. Literary Device Examples (cont.) 5. Rhyme: "Way up North, where there's ice and snow, there lived a penguin and his name was Joe.“ 6. Hyperbole: “I could sleep for a year.” 7. Simile: “So are you to my thoughts as food to life.” -Shakespeare 7

9. Literary Device Examples (cont.) 8. Metaphor: “All the world’s a stage” -Shakespeare 9. Imagery: “I took a walk around the world to Ease my troubled mind I left my body laying somewhere In the sands of time I watched the world float to the dark Side of the moon I feel there is nothing I can do” -Three Doors Down 8

10. Literary Device Examples (cont.) 10. Allusion: “The restaurant was weird and I didn't know what to expect next; I wouldn't have been surprised if a blond little girl jumped out and started tasting all of our soups to find one that was ‘just right’.” 9

11. Poetry Examples 1. Acrostic: C-rucified; H-id behind a stone; R-ose on the third day; I-nvited us to be S-aved with Him; T-ogether forever in Heaven 10

12. Poetry Examples 2. Prose: The Mouse, the Frog, and the Hawk A Mouse who always lived on the land, by an unlucky chance formed an intimate acquaintance with a Frog, who lived for the most part in the water. The Frog, one day intent on mischief, bound the foot of the Mouse tightly to his own. Thus joined together, the Frog first of all led his friend the Mouse to the meadow where they were accustomed to find their food. After this, he gradually led him towards the pool in which he lived, until reaching the very brink, he suddenly jumped in, dragging the Mouse with him. The Frog enjoyed the water amazingly, and swam croaking about, as if he had done a good deed. The unhappy Mouse was soon suffocated by the water, and his dead body floated about on the surface, tied to the foot of the Frog. A Hawk observed it, and, pouncing upon it with his talons, carried it aloft. The Frog, being still fastened to the leg of the Mouse, was also carried off a prisoner, and was eaten by the Hawk. Harm hatch, harm catch -One of Aesop’s Fables- http://www.ivyjoy.com/fables/mousefroghawk.html 11

13. Poetry Examples 3. Epic: By the shore of Gitchie Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited. All the air was full of freshness, All the earth was bright and joyous, And before him through the sunshine, Westward toward the neighboring forest Passed in golden swarms the Ahmo, Passed the bees, the honey-makers, Burning, singing in the sunshine. Bright above him shown the heavens, Level spread the lake before him; From its bosom leaped the sturgeon, Hiawatha's Departure from The Song of HiawathabyHenry Wadsworth Longfellow Aparkling, flashing in the sunshine; On its margin the great forest Stood reflected in the water, Every tree-top had its shadow, Motionless beneath the water. From the brow of Hiawatha Gone was every trace of sorrow, As the fog from off the water, And the mist from off the meadow. With a smile of joy and triumph, With a look of exultation, As of one who in a vision Sees what is to be, but is not, Stood and waited Hiawatha. 12

14. Poetry Examples 4. Ballad: But tonight a widow she will be." ChorusThen up spoke the Cook of our gallant ship, And a greasy old Cook was he; "I care more for my kettles and my pots, Than I do for the roaring of the sea." Chorus Then up spoke the Cabin-boy of our gallant ship, And a dirty little brat was he; "I have friends in Boston town That don't care a ha' penny for me."Chorus Then three times 'round went our gallant ship, And three times 'round went she, And the third time that she went 'round She sank to the bottom of the sea.Chorus The MermaidbyAuthor Unknown 'Twas Friday morn when we set sail, And we had not got far from land, When the Captain, he spied a lovely mermaid, With a comb and a glass in her hand.Chorus Oh the ocean waves may roll, And the stormy winds may blow, While we poor sailors go skipping aloft And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below And the land lubbers lay down below.Then up spoke the Captain of our gallant ship, And a jolly old Captain was he; "I have a wife in Salem town, 13

15. Poetry Examples I once had a friend named Emily; She knew every time I had to pee, She is my best friend; Till the very end. We will both one day go to the sea. 5. Limerick: There once was a banana, Eaten by this girl, Anna; She ate them all day, But they went away; So she moved to Savannah. I really like eating ice; I don’t like it much with spice. It would taste funny; Not very sunny. I will not eat it with rice. 14

16. Poetry Examples 6. Haiku: Anna Marie Clark; I love to ski in the snow; It is cold and fun. Rain, Rain, go away; I’m going outside to play; Please, Rain, go away. Reach for the heavens; God is great and always here; His love never fails 15

17. Poetry Examples But there was no room for Him in the world He came to saveJerusalem, what you have missed while you were sleepingThe Savior of the world is dying on your cross todayJerusalem, you will go down in historyAs a city with no room for its KingWhile you were sleepingWhile you were sleeping United States of AmericaLooks like another silent nightAs we're sung to sleep by philosophiesThat save the trees and kill the childrenAnd while we're lying in the darkThere's a shout heard 'cross the eastern skyFor the Bridegroom has returnedAnd has carried His bride away in the nightAmerica, what will we miss while we are sleepingWill Jesus come againAnd leave us slumbering where we layAmerica, will we go down in historyAs a nation with no room for its KingWill we be sleepingWill we be sleepingUnited States of AmericaLooks like another silent night 7. Lyric Poem: "While You Were Sleeping"Casting Crowns Oh little town of BethlehemLooks like another silent nightAbove your deep and dreamless sleepA giant star lights up the skyAnd while you're lying in the darkThere shines an everlasting lightFor the King has left His throneAnd is sleeping in a manger tonightOh Bethlehem, what you have missed while you were sleepingFor God became a manAnd stepped into your world todayOh Bethlehem, you will go down in historyAs a city with no room for its KingWhile you were sleepingWhile you were sleepingOh little town of JerusalemLooks like another silent nightThe Father gave His only SonThe Way, the Truth, the Life had come 16

18. Poetry Examples 8. Narrative: Excerpt of John BarleycornbyRobert Burns There was three kings into the east, Three kings both great and high, And they hae sworn a solemn oath John Barleycorn should die. They took a plough and plough'd him down, Put clods upon his head, And they hae sworn a solemn oath John Barleycorn was dead. But the cheerful Spring came kindly on, And show'rs began to fall; John Barleycorn got up again, And sore surpris'd them all. The sultry suns of Summer came, And he grew thick and strong, His head weel arm'd wi' pointed spears, That no one should him wrong. The sober Autumn enter'd mild, When he grew wan and pale; His bending joints and drooping head Show'd he began to fail. His coulour sicken'd more and more, He faded into age; And then his enemies began To show their deadly rage. They've taen a weapon, long and sharp, And cut him by the knee; Then ty'd him fast upon a cart, Like a rogue for forgerie. 17

19. About the Author I, Anna Marie Clark, was born on April 2nd 1996 at 8:10 P.M. in Ft. Riley Kansas. I was born to Catherine and Todd Clark, the youngest of their four daughters. I have three sisters, Christina, Jennifer and Emily. We moved to Illesiem, Germany when I was three, then we moved to Grafenwhoer, Germany about two years later. In 2006 we moved to Bamberg, Germany. We lived there for one year and we were very active in the theater there. I starred as Annie in the musical, “Annie!” In 2007 we moved to Enterprise, Alabama. I attended Holly Hill Elementary School. My family and I went to Hillcrest Baptist Church where I accepted Jesus Christ into my heart. I was baptized there on December 16th in the 10:45 service. That was the single, most transforming event in my life. In 2009 I officially entered Jr. High. Many doors were opened to me for eighth grade such as leading a bible study Wednesday mornings, being a part of the Expressions and playing for the EHS girls’ soccer team. These all have been amazing experiences in my life. This has been my life so far, in its shortest version.