Poetry uses language and creative forms to express emotions and ideas. It has certain defining characteristics, including concentrated language, visual imagery, and meaning derived from devices like metaphor and symbolism. Poetry is structured through lines organized into stanzas rather than prose paragraphs. Common forms include narrative poems which tell a story, lyric poems expressing personal feelings, and verse fables that convey moral lessons. Literary devices like simile, metaphor, alliteration and rhyme add rhythm, sound, and meaning.

3.  Poetry - A type of writing that uses
language to express imaginative and
emotional qualities instead of or in
addition to meaning.
 Poetry may be written as individual
poems or included in other written
forms as in dramatic poetry, hymns, or
song lyrics.

4.  Length
 Visual impressions
 Concentrated, intense language that makes
deliberate sound effects which can involve
rhythm, rhyme, or other sounds
 Written in lines and stanzas rather than
sentences or paragraphs
 (Deeper) Meaning is gleaned from
understanding the use of metaphor, symbol,
imagery, etc.

5.  Lines - a single line of poetry.
 Stanzas - a group of lines set off from the other lines in a
poem; the poetic equivalent of a paragraph in prose. In
traditional poems, the stanza usually contains a unit of
thought, much like a paragraph.
 Tercet
 The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low,
Each like a corpse within its grave, until
Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow
 Punctuation – used for emphasis
 Structure of images / symbols within the poem
 Watch for colors, patterns, figurative language
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6. Connotation Denotation
SnakeSnake
evil or danger
any of numerousany of numerous
scaly, legless,scaly, legless,
sometimessometimes
venomous reptiles;venomous reptiles;
having a long,having a long,
tapering,tapering,
cylindrical bodycylindrical body
and found in mostand found in most
tropical andtropical and
temperate regionstemperate regions

7. An Epic Poem is a long story
told in verse which tells the
great deeds of a hero.
Example:
The Odyssey
by Homer
An Epic Poem is a long story
told in verse which tells the
great deeds of a hero.
Example:
The Odyssey
by Homer

8. Narrative Poem is a
poem that tells a story.
Example:
T’was the Night Before Christmas
by Clement C. Moore

9. Verse Fable is a brief story told
in verse that illustrates a
moral and features human-like
animals, plants, objects, or
forces of nature.

10. A Boy Cries Wolf
Once there was a foolish boy
Whose job it was to guard some sheep
In case a hungry wolf might come
To pounce upon them in their sleep.
The owners told him: If a wolf
Should come, be sure to give a cry
So we can come and save the sheep
And give that wolf a swift goodbye.
The foolish boy grew bored one night,
And cried out Wolf! Wolf! just for jokes,
And farmers came from far and wide,
But left disgusted by his hoax.
But then at midnight that boy spied
A savage wolf about to strike,
Wolf! Wolf! he screamed, but no one came
And sheep and shepherd died alike.
MORAL: Those who enjoy making fools of others often
make fools of themselves.
from the book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary

11. Lyric Poetry portrays the
poet's own feelings, states
of mind, ideas, and
perceptions.

12. Acrostic poems use letter
patterns to create multiple
messages
Example:
When the first letters of lines
read downward form a
separate phrase or word.

13. Energetic
Rowdy
Irritating
Clown
-Mrs. Chi, 2/08

16. Metaphor is a figure of speech that
makes a comparison between two unlike
things, in which one thing becomes
another without the use of the words
like, as, than, or resembles.

17. Love is a rose.

18. Simile is a figure of speech that makes
a comparison between two unlike
things, using words such as like, as,
than, or resembles.
Example:
My love is like a red, red rose.
- Robert Burns
Simile is a figure of speech that makes
a comparison between two unlike
things, using words such as like, as,
than, or resembles.
Example:
My love is like a red, red rose.
- Robert Burns

19. Onomatopeia is the use of a
word or words whose sound
imitates its meaning.
Examples:
crackle, pop, fizz, click, chirp

20. Alliteration occurs when a series of
words in a row (or close to a row)
have the same first consonant sound.
For example, “She sells sea-shells
down by the sea-short” or “Peter
Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled
Peppers” are both alliterative
phrases.

22. Rhythm is the actual
sound that results from
a line of poetry.

23. Rhyme is the
placement of identical
or similar sounds at
the ends of lines or at
predictable locations
within lines.

24. Poetry is separated into
lines on a page. Lines may
be based on the number of
metrical feet, or may
stress a rhyme pattern at
the ends of lines.

25. Stanzas are groups of lines in a poem which
are named by the number of lines
included.
 Two lines is a couplet.
 Three lines is a triplet or tercet.
 Four lines is a quatrain.
 Five lines is a quintain or cinquain.
 Six lines is a sestet.
 Eight lines is an octet.