my poetry vocabulary

7/31/2019 My Poetry Vocabulary

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No. 1, Pratap Nagar Udaipur


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Il Term Project Session 2010-11

Submitted To:-

Pramila Madam

Submitted By:-

Shailendra Paliwal

Class XI B

Poetry


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Poetry Vocabulary


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Poetry

Poetry is literature that uses a fewwords to tell about ideas, feelingsand paints a picture in the readersmind.

Most poems were written to be

read aloud. Poems may or may not rhyme.


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Form

The form of a poem is the waythat it looks on the page.


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What a poem looks like:

Bad Hair Day

I looked in the mirrorwith shock and with dreadto discover two antlershad sprung from my head .

StanzaRhyming words

line


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Lines

The way that poets arrange wordsinto lines.

The lines may or may not besentences.


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Stanzas

Groups of lines in traditionalpoetry.

What Bugs Me When my teacher tells me to write a poem.When my mother tells me to clean up my room.When my sister practices her violin while Im watchingTV.When my father tells me to turn off the TV and do my

homework.When my brother picks a fight with me and I have to goto bed early.When my teacher asks me to get up in front of the classand read the poem I wrote on the school bus.

Stanza


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Free Verse

Poems that do not usually rhymeand have no fixed rhythm orpattern. They are written like aconversation.


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Sound Devices

Elements of poetry that use onetype of sound relatedcharacteristic.

Rhyme Rhythm Onomatopoeia Meter and more.......


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MeterA pattern of stressed and unstressedsyllables.Meter occurs when the stressed and

unstressed syllables of the words in apoem are arranged in a repeating pattern.When poets write in meter, they count outthe number of stressed (strong) syllablesand unstressed (weak) syllables for eachline. They repeat the pattern throughoutthe poem.


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Rhyme

Sounds that are alike at the end of words, such as snow and crow.

There are several types of rhymesuch as end rhyme like run andfun. Internal rhyme such as:

Once upon a midnight dreary , while Ipondered weak and weary .

Near Rhyme- words that do not exactly rhymesuch as rose and lose.


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Sample Rhyme schemeThe Germ by Ogden Nash

A mighty creature is the g erm ,Though smaller than the pachyd erm .

His customary dwelling pl ace Is deep within the human r ace .

His childish pride he often pl eases By giving people strange dis eases .

Do you, my poppet, feel inf irm ?You probably contain a g erm .

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Alliteration

Consonant sounds repeated at thebeginnings of words

If P eter P iper p icked a p eck of p ickled p eppers, how many p ickled p eppers did P eter P iper p ick?


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Onomatopoeia

Words that imitate the sound theyare naming

BUZZ OR sounds that imitate anothersound

The s ilken, s ad, un c ertain,ru s tling of

each purple curtain . . .


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Rhythm

The beat of the poem. These are made up patterns of

strong and weak syllables.


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Repetition The repeating of sounds, words,

phrases, or lines in a poem.

I like popcorn!I like candy!I like chips!

I like ice cream!I need to brush my teeth!


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Figurative Language and

other poetic devices Figurative language Simile Metaphor Hyperbole

Idiom Personification


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Figurative Language

Words and phrases that help thereader picture things in a new

way.Example:She heard music when he kissed

her.


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Imagery Words or phrases that appeal to

the five senses: sight, hearing,smell, taste, and touch.

Imagery is what helps you paint apicture or imagine what ishappening or what the poet isfeeling.

Example: The hamburgers sizzledon the grill


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Simile

A comparison of two things usingthe words like or as.

Her smile was bright like the sun!The peach was as delicious as a kiss.My dog is as mean as a snake.


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Metaphor

A comparison of two thingsWITHOUT using as or like

His face is a puzzle to me, I cannever figure out what he isthinking.


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Personification

Giving an animal or an objecthuman qualities.

My dog smiles at me. The house glowed with happiness. The car was irritated when she

pumped it full of cheap gas.


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Tone

The writer's attitude toward hisreaders and his subject; his mood

or moral view. A writer can beformal, informal, playful, ironic,and especially, optimistic or

pessimistic.


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Assonance Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or

lines of poetryExamples of ASSONANCE: Slow the low gradual moan came in the

snowing. - John Masefield

Shall ever medicine thee to that sweetsleep.

- William Shakespeare


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Symbolism When a

person,place,thing, orevent thathasmeaningin itself alsorepresents

, or standsfor,somethingelse.

= Innocence

= America

=Peace


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Idiom

An expression where the literalmeaning of the words is not the

meaning of the expression. Itmeans something other than whatit actually says.

Ex. Its raining cats and dogs.


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Hyperbole

obvious and intentionalexaggeration

EX: There are a million people inhere!

I could sleep for a year! I have a ton of homework

tongight!


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No Where Near the End!!!

There is so much more topoetry....we have only scratched

the surface.....


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Thanks

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