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Bellringer
Answer the following questions:
What makes poetry
different than prose?
 How can you identify
poetry?
Unit 2 Vocabulary
What is Poetry?
Poetry is writing that is imaginative
and emotional. Poetry is written
with words that are vivid, and every
word in a poem is important. These
words are arranged carefully so
that they have a pleasing sound, as
well as an effect on the reader.
Purposes of Poetry
to create an image
to evoke emotion
to tell a story
(narrative poetry)
The Form of Poetry
A Minor Bird
I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.
-Robert Frost
“A Minor Bird” Written in Prose
How does it look different from the poem?
I have wished a bird would fly away
and not sing by my house all day. I
have clapped my hands at him from
the door when it seemed as if I
could bear no more. The fault must
partly have been in me. The bird
was not to blame for his key. And of
course there must be something
wrong in wanting to silence any song.
The Form of Poetry
Poems are written in lines and stanzas.
line—an arrangement of words
in a poem
stanza—a group of lines (similar
to a paragraph in prose writing)
How many lines and stanzas are in this poem?
A Minor Bird
I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.
-Robert Frost
Imagery
Example:
language
that
appeals to
the senses
Winter Moon
How thin and sharp is the
moon tonight!
How thin and sharp and
ghostly white
Is the slim curved crook of
the moon tonight!
-Langston Hughes
Sound Devices in Poetry
 alliteration—the repetition of consonant
sounds
Example:
mystical moon
 onomatopoeia—a word that imitates a
sound
Examples:
boom, splat, honk, swish, howl
Figures of Speech
(figurative language)
a phrase that is not literally true
Types of figures of speech:
 simile
 metaphor
 personification
 hyperbole
 idiom
Simile
simile--a
comparison
between two
unlike things,
using like or
as
Metaphor
metaphor--a
comparison
between two
unlike things in
which one thing
is said to be
the other thing
Personification
Personification—figure of speech
in which an inanimate object is
treated like a living person or
animal
Example:
Awakening to the risen sun, the
rested trees stretched their
limbs heavenward.
Hyperbole
hyperbole—an
exaggeration
Examples:
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These books weigh a ton.
I could sleep for a year.
The path went on forever.
I'm doing a million things right now.
I’m so hungry I could eat a horse.
I waited centuries for you.
Idiom
idiom—a commonly used expression
that is not literally true
Examples:
 beat around the bush
 bent out of shape
 a piece of cake
toot your own horn
don’t see eye to eye
fly off the handle
 down in the dumps
hold your horses
 get under my skin
going bananas
 raining cats and dogs
 shoot the breeze
break a leg
cat has your tongue
 under the weather
on pins and needles
 drive me up the wall
water under the bridge