POETRY VOCABULARY
The Speaker: The person who is saying the poem (NOT the reader or the author!) 1. FORM: The TYPE of poem (each type of poem has a set of rules to follow. Example: Lyric Poems are poems that express feelings) a. Traditional Vs. Free Verse i. Traditional Poems: follow specific rules, have a certain number of stanzas and lines per stanza. ii. Free Verse poems do not follow particular rules. They can sometimes be written so the words make a particular shape. 2. STANZA: a group of lines that together make up one idea in the poem (like a paragraph in a story) 3. LINE: a group of words together on the same line in a poem 4. LINE BREAK: the start of a new stanza (usually used to signify a new topic/idea/etc.) 5. MOOD: the feelings the poem gives a reader based on the word choice 6. TONE: the author’s attitude towards the subject (ex. Words used will show how the author feels about the topic) 7. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: different devices used to create IMAGERY (images in the reader’s head) and give the reader a better understanding of the topic 8. SIMILE: a comparison between two things using the words “Like” or “as” Example: Her smile is like the sun, it can light up the sky. 9. METAPHOR: a comparison between two things using the words “Is” and “are”--- Example: You are the rock on which I stand. ____________________________________________ Free Verse Poem Dreams Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow. Langston Hughes _______________________________________ The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I marked the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost |
POETRYNotes were taken in class.
To review the different FORMS of poems: 1.http://www.kathimitchell.com/poemtypes.html 2.http://www.poemofquotes.com/articles/poetry_forms.php Simile and Metaphor Jeopardy Game: http://www.superteachertools.com/jeopardy/ usergames/Feb201106/game1297119259.php |