The document provides an overview of various poetry terms and techniques, such as alliteration, ballads, figurative language, and limericks. It includes definitions, examples, and descriptions of different poetic forms, emphasizing the role of rhythm and rhyme, particularly in humor and light-hearted poems. Additionally, it encourages the creation of original limericks by filling in given structures.

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2. 1. Alliteration:
– Repetition of initial consonant
sounds
– Example: Sister Suzy sat on the
seashore until suddenly she was
swallowed by a shark.
1. Allusion:
– A reference to a well-known
person, place, event, literary
work, or work of art

3. 3. Ballad:
– A song-like poem that tells a story
4.Blank Verse:
– Poetry written in unrhymed,
iambic pentameter.
5.Concrete Poem:
– A poem with a shape that
suggests its subject
– Example: George Herbert’s
Easter Wings and The Alter

4. 6. Figurative Language:
– Writing that is not meant to be
taken literally
– Example: He made me so mad I
wanted to die.
7. Free Verse:
– Poetry not written in a regular
rhythmical pattern or meter

5. 8. Image:
– A word or phrase that appeals to one
or more of the five senses
9. Lyric Poem:
– Highly musical verse that expresses
the observations and feelings of a
single speaker
9. Metaphor:
– A figure of speech in which something
is described as though it were
something else
– Example: He is such a pig when he eats!

6. 11. Mood:
– The feeling created in the reader by a
literary work
12. Onomatopoeia:
– The use of words that imitate sounds
– Example: The buzz of the bee was very
loud.
13.Personification:
– A type of figurative language in which a
non-human subject is given human
characteristics
– Example: The tree waved excitedly in
the wind.

7. 14. Repetition:
– The use, more than once, of any
element of language
15. Rhyme:
– Repetition of sounds at the end of
words
– Example: Roses are red, violets are
blue…..
16. Rhyme Scheme:
– A regular pattern of rhyming
words in a poem

8. 17. Rhythm:
– Pattern of beats or stresses in
spoken or written language
18. Simile:
– A figure of speech that uses
like or as to make a direct
comparison between two unlike
ideas
19. Stanza:
– A formal division of lines in a
poem considered as a unit
My love is like a red rose.

9. 20. Motif – Main or reoccurring
theme.
21. Extended Metaphor – a
comparison developed over several
lines of poetry.
22. Pun – Humor from a double
meaning

10. 23. Confessional poetry –
confession of an activity or an
emotion.
24. Elegy – Pays tribute to a
person (usually dead)
25. Imagist poetry – uses
lots of images to paint a
picture for the reader.

11. 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

12. 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.

13. 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

14. 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.

15. 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!

16. 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.

17. 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!

18. 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.

19. 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 ___________.

20. The Class Limerick
There once was a _____ from _____.
All the while she/he hoped ________.
So she/he ____________________,
And ________________________,
That _________ from ___________.