Poetry
Vocabulary
1. Alliteration:
– Repetition of initial consonant sounds
2. Allusion:
– A reference to a well-known person,
place, event, literary work, or work of
art
3. Ballad:
– A song-like poem that tells a story
4. Blank Verse:
– Poetry written in unrhymed, ten-
syllable lines
5. Concrete Poem:
– A poem with a shape that suggests its
subject
6. Figurative Language:
– Writing that is not meant to be taken
literally
7. Free Verse:
– Poetry not written in a regular
rhythmical pattern or meter
8. Haiku:
– A three-lined Japanese verse
9. Image:
– A word or phrase that appeals to one
or more of the five senses
10. Lyric Poem:
– Highly musical verse that expresses
the observations and feelings of a
single speaker
11. Metaphor:
– A figure of speech in which something
is described as though it were
something else
12. Mood:
– The feeling created in the reader by
a literary work
13. Narrative Poem:
– A story told in verse
14. Onomatopoeia:
– The use of words that imitate sounds
15. Personification:
– A type of figurative language in which
a non-human subject is given human
characteristics
16. Refrain:
– A regularly repeated line or group of
lines in a poem
17. Repetition:
– The use, more than once, of any
element of language
18. Rhyme:
– Repetition of sounds at the end of
words
19. Rhyme Scheme:
– A regular pattern of rhyming
words in a poem
20.Rhythm:
– Pattern of beats or stresses in
spoken or written language
21. Simile:
– A figure of speech that uses
like or as to make a direct
comparison between two unlike
ideas
My love is like a red rose.
22.Stanza:
– A formal division of lines in a poem
considered as a unit
Poetry
Humor & Poetry
Humor
• Humor in poetry can arise
from a number of sources:
– Surprise
– Exaggeration
– Bringing together of
unrelated things
• Most funny poems have two
things in common:
– Rhythm
– Rhyme
Rhythm & Rhyme
• Using more spirited language makes
humorous situations even more humorous
“The Porcupine”
By Ogden Nash
Any hound a porcupine nudges
Can’t be blamed for harboring grudges.
I know one hound that laughed all winter
At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.
If you take away the rhythm
and rhyme, the humor vanishes.
Any hound that touches a porcupine
Can’t be blamed for holding a grudge
I know one hound that laughed all
winter long
At a porcupine that sat on a piece of
wood
Lewis Carroll
1832-1898
• Born in England
• Wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
• Wrote Through the Looking Glass
• His life was quiet and uneventful, but in
works like Father William, he found escape
from his serious work into a delightfully
zany, topsy-turvy world that still amuses
children old and young.
“Father William”
Page 400
• In this poem, a young man questions
his father about some rather unusual
behavior.
• Have you ever asked someone what
they were doing and received an
explanation that made very little
sense at all?
Limericks
• A limerick is a poem of five lines
• The first, second, and fifth lines
have three rhythmic beats and rhyme
with one another.
• The third and fourth lines have two
beats and rhyme with one another.
• They are always light-hearted,
humorous poems.
Limericks
There once was a man with no hair.
He gave everyone quite a scare.
He got some Rogaine,
Grew out a mane,
And now he resembles a bear!
Limerick About a Bee
I wish that my room had a floor,
I don’t care so much for a door.
But this walking around
Without touching the ground
Is getting to be quite a bore.
Another Limerick
There once was a very small mouse
Who lived in a very small house,
The ocean’s spray
Washed it away,
All that was left was her blouse!
You will create a limerick
similar to this one…
There once was a man from Beijing.
All his life he hoped to be King.
So he put on a crown,
Which quickly fell down.
That small silly man from Beijing.
Fill in the blanks and
create your own Limerick.
There once was a _____ from _____.
All the while she/he hoped ________.
So she/he ____________________,
And ________________________,
That _________ from ___________.
Mrs. Smith’s Limerick:
There once was a man from Japan.
All the while he hoped for a tan.
So he lay on the beach,
And ate a ripe peach,
That came from a Georgia van.
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