Epic

Def: a poem that were written for all the heroes the the past.

Ex: beowolf was an truthly hero, he fight against monster and many more

ballads

Def:  music for a poem, mostly about love


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Narrative

Def: poems that express feelings of the poet by a story.


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Stanza

Def:A group of lines that form a unit of some types of poem.


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Sig: Stanzas are like paragraphs in normal prose.Each stanza represents a concept

Rhyme

Def: An act of putting two sound-alike words together.


Ex:I Miss You

I miss you in the morning;
I miss you late at night.
Just to think about you
Is my joy and my delight.

I can't wait to see you;
Please hurry and come back.
You always make me happy;
You have that special knack!
Sig:Rhyme is basically fun! With rhyming words.

interpretation

def: An explanation or understanding of something


Ex: looj at the picture goofy is wearing the binocular around the neck and he is looking for something.

Speaker

Def: narrator or the character that speaks the poem; not always the poet.


Ex:

Nature's Chorus

Willows bend to their partners
while the spruces curtsey in response.
Cherry trees form a circle
and the oaks dance just like debutantes
of woodpeckers tapping on their trunks
and squirrels chattering in the boughs.
Listen to the sounds of nature’s chorus
What fun it does arouse!

personification

Def:  figure of speech in which things or abstract ideas are given human characteristics.


Ex:

Games

Chipmunks chatter and scurry,
Blue jays scream and scold.
Robins talk and gossip
demanding their story to be told.
Squirrels skip and box one another
and rabbits play hop scotch.
The games they play, the sounds they make
Really are top notch.

Rhythm

Def: Provides the poem’s beat by indicating the repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables.


Ex: One, two,

Buckle my shoe. Three, four, Shut the door.They know the days of the month by memorizing: Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November.... They even pick up bits of history by remembering such simple rhymes as: Columbus sailed the ocean blue In fourteen-hundred-ninety-two

A sunshiny shower
Won't last an hour.
Rain before seven;
Clear by eleven.
March winds and April showers
Bring forth May flowers.
Wishes
Won't wash dishes.
Early to bed and early to rise
Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Meter

Def : A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable.
Ex:Shall I com PARE thee TO a SUM mer’s DAY?


Sig:the unit of stressed and unstressed syllables is called a foot, Meter is very important because when the poem is read out loud. more interesting to have stressed and unstressed


Elegy


Def:poem for someone who has died.

Ex:

Elegy

Too proud to die; broken and blind he died The darkest way, and did not turn away, A cold kind man brave in his narrow pride On that darkest day, Oh, forever may He lie lightly, at last, on the last, crossed Hill, under the grass, in love, and there grow Young among the long flocks, and never lie lost Or still all the numberless days of his death, though Above all he longed for his mother's breast Which was rest and dust, and in the kind ground The darkest justice of death, blind and unblessed. Let him find no rest but be fathered and found, I prayed in the crouching room, by his blind bed, In the muted house, one minute before Noon, and night, and light. the rivers of the dead Veined his poor hand I held, and I saw Through his unseeing eyes to the roots of the sea. (An old tormented man three-quarters blind, I am not too proud to cry that He and he Will never never go out of my mind. All his bones crying, and poor in all but pain, Being innocent, he dreaded that he died Hating his God, but what he was was plain: An old kind man brave in his burning pride. The sticks of the house were his; his books he owned. Even as a baby he had never cried; Nor did he now, save to his secret wound. Out of his eyes I saw the last light glide. Here among the liught of the lording sky An old man is with me where I go Walking in the meadows of his son's eye On whom a world of ills came down like snow. He cried as he died, fearing at last the spheres' Last sound, the world going out without a breath: Too proud to cry, too frail to check the tears, And caught between two nights, blindness and death. O deepest wound of all that he should die On that darkest day. oh, he could hide The tears out of his eyes, too proud to cry. Until I die he will not leave my side. Sig: Elegy shows sad emotion for who has die. Couplet Def:

A two-line poem that rhymes

Silly Sally
When Silly Sally irons her clothes, they come out looking awful.
She did not read the label and her iron was meant to waffle.Ex:

Sig: Couplet usualy rythm in 2 lines.

Line

Def:A single line of words in a poem.

Ex: A sentence equal a line

Sig: line allow the reader to stop and thought about sentence and what they means. The reader need to take time to think about it.

Symbol

Def: Something that represent something or itself.

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Onomatopoeia


Def: use words with sounds that imitate or suggest their meaning

Ex:

Hulk Smash

Hulk know. Hulk have a problem.
Hulk took break from Avengers after orphanage and tanker truck incident.
Hulk’s therapist said it cry for help.
Hulk said “Hulk strong! Hulk self-reliant! Ugh!”
Who Hulk kidding? Hulk not really so incredible.
Hulk look in mirror everyday and want to smash things.
Hulk never cut out to be superhero.
Hulk really just regular Joe.
Hulk got Hungry Hungry Hippos for birthday.
But no one want to play with Hulk. Everyone too busy saving world.
Hulk like watching Tennessee Titans with bowl of chips and dip.
Hulk like to go beachcombing for giant squid carcasses.
Hulk OK guy.  Just misunderstood.
Hulk really just want to have normal 9 to 5 job.
But who would hire Hulk?
Hulk first tried 7-11 cashier job in Schertz,Texas.
Hulk wore stupid uniform even though it too small.
Hulk still want to smash Slurpee machine.
Hulk think it give too much ice, not enough syrup!
Captain America lecture Hulk. Captain America douche bag.
Hulk then tried work in office job.
Hulk carpool with Joan and Frank from accounting.
Hulk wear snappy tie and dress shirt.
Hulk even bought new purple pants!
Cubicles too small for Hulk, though.
Hulk hate paperwork!
Hulk smash paper shredder!
Hulk got yelled at by Shelley in cubicle next door.
Hulk hate Shelley! (Hulk think about Shelley every day.

Sig: Onomatopoeia makes up words when no other existing words will describe that word.

Anssonance

Def: Repetition of vowel sounds.

  Ex:The Church-Bell

As I was lying in my bed
I heard the church-bell ring;
Before one solemn word was said
A bird began to sing.

I heard a dog begin to bark
And a bold crowing cock;
The bell, between the cold and dark,
Tolled. It was five o'clock.

The church-bell tolled, and the bird sang,
A clear true voice he had;
The cock crew, and the church-bell rang,
I knew it had gone mad.

A hand reached down from the dark skies,
It took the bell-rope thong,
The bell cried "Look! Lift up your eyes!"
The clapper shook to song.

The iron clapper laughed aloud,
Like clashing wind and wave;
The bell cried out "Be strong and proud!"
Then, with a shout, "Be brave!"

The rumbling of the market-carts,
The pounding of men's feet
Were drowned in song; "Lift up your hearts!"
The song was loud and sweet.

Slow and slow the great bell swung,
It hung in the steeple mute;
And people tore its living tongue
Out by the very root.

Sig:Assonance sets mood and adds to the meaning of the writing

Alliteration

Def:Repetition of consonant sounds in several words that are close together

Sig: Alliteration is a very creative and useful  because it creates witty and memorable.