ENTIRE Poetry Unit

Use of: Similes/Metaphors. Poem about baseball players and how good baseball games would keep them going!

Use of: personification/Similies/Metaphors. Poem personifying the wind coming into her house and her treating “him” as a guest.

Use of: Similes/Metaphors. Poem about how each day is like a new sheet of paper to write on and throw away at the end of the day.

Use of: Personification. Poem about how death is an enemy of the writer, and it personifies “him” coming to all of us at some point.

Use of: Similes/Metaphors. Poem about how rocks, even though they are strong, crack at some point, just like people.

Use of: Similes. Poem about telling the truth lightly, and not in a harsh way.

Use of: Alliteration, consonance. Poem about the dead from World War I speaking about their lives shortly before they died.

Use: Alliteration, assonance, consonance. Poem about the underwater beast the Kraken, and how he lives.

Language that is used imaginatively rather than literally to express ideas or feelings in new ways.

Phrases that make comparisons between dissimilar things

Use like or as to compare two essentially unlike things (She runs like the wind)

Speak of one thing in terms of another (All the world’s a stage)

Gives human traits to nonhuman things (The ocean snarled and pounded against the shore)

Descriptive language that creates vivid impressions.

Imagery which provides details related to sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, and movement.

Used by poets to achieve a musical quality.

Pattern created by stressed and unstressed syllables of words in sequence.

An ordered pattern of rhythm.

Repetition of identical sounds in the last syllables of words.

A pattern of rhyme at the ends of poetic lines.

Repetition of the initial consonant sounds of words (“light,” and “lemon.”)

Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words (“date,” and “fade.”)

Repetition of consonants within nearby words in which the separating vowels differ (“milk,” and “walk.”)

Tells a story and has a plot, characters, and a setting. The speaker tells a story in verse.

Long narrative poem about the feats of gods or heroes.

Songlike narrative that has short stanzas and a refrain.

Tells a story using a character’s own thoughts or spoken statements.

Express the feelings of a single speaker, most common type of poem in modern literature. The speaker’s thoughts, feelings, and insights create a single, unified impression. Include imagery.

Verse form with three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Uses imagery to convey a single vivid emotion.

Verse form with five unrhymed lines of five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables —a five-line, unrhymed Japanese form. Uses imagery to convey a single vivid emotion.The briefness helps poets focus on a single strong image or idea.

Poems that have neither a set pattern of rhythm nor rhyme.

Fourteen-line lyric poem with formal patterns of rhyme, rhythm, and line structure.

Voice that says the words of the poem; may be the poet, or it may be a character the poet invents to give the poem a particular voice or viewpoint.

Reference to a person, event, place, or artistic work

Narrative poem- story tale, style & dialogue
Story about a bizarre dream in which the protagonist uncovers her fiance’s secret murder.

Lyric poem- author’s thoughts and feelings expressed
Fisher meets an invincible fish.

Use of dialect-
Men talking about someone to be hanged

Use of Allusions-
Man plays guitar in a forest and the trees love it so much that they follow his music

Winter is similar to a contagious hospital, but we need to hope for spring. It changed in direction from sad to happy connotations

This poem is based on personification, namely that of a New England farmer’s scythe, and the farmer’s DIALECT. The sound made by the scythe as it cuts hay is compared to whispers that people make.

Lyric Poem
If you can still make a fist, you can’t give up yet- even when life is hard.

Nineteen-line form
This repetition can create a chanting effect or suggest intense passion.
The lines are grouped into five three-line stanzas and one four-line stanza. The lines rhyme aba, aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa.
Line 1 is repeated in lines 6, 12, and 18. Line 3 is repeated in lines 9, 15, and 19.

Lines are grouped into three quatrains (groups of four lines) and a couplet, a pair of rhymed lines. The rhyme scheme is abab, cdcd, efef, gg.

Each line contains five unaccented and five accented syllables in the pattern “da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM.”

About waking up and learning from experience and growing from these experiences, “I learned by going where I have to go.” TONE, VILLANELLE

Tanka~the clouds will never be able to cover the moon and it’s brightness

Tanka, Setting, Mood~A man was in love with a girl and it is implied that she either did not reciprocate the feelings or shut him down all together

Sonnet~When he dies the one thing he will miss most is Manhattan (his city)

repetition, Rhyme scheme~Even though we know that we are all going to die at one time, we should make the most out of our lives so that when our times come we are prepared to go. We should not give into the knowledge of inevitable death.

Italian Sonnet (We didn’t go through the difference so don’t freak out over the fact that this one is Italian), Metaphor, dialect (obviously old English)~Basically a love letter to the women that he loves comparing her to beautiful things like a “summer’s day”

Some repetition, rhythm (just means the story has a certain melody to the writing so that it reads with the accentuated lines falling on a beat)~Mother doesn’t want her daughter to grow up and leave the proverbial nest because then she will not be able to do all of the motherly things that she feels she needs to do (example:brush her hair)

dialect, repetition, diction~a man got wooed by a fair lady and then she left him alone on a hill side and now he is forlorn and heartbroken