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1. Alliteration:– Repetition of initial consonant
sounds
2. Allusion:– A reference to a well-known person,
place, event, literary work, or work of art
3. Ballad:– A song-like poem that tells a story
4. Blank Verse:– Poetry written in unrhymed, ten-
syllable lines
5. Concrete Poem:– A poem with a shape that suggests
its subject
6. Figurative Language:– Writing that is not meant to be
taken literally
7. Free Verse:– Poetry not written in a regular
rhythmical pattern or meter
8. Haiku:– A three-lined Japanese verse
9. Image:– A word or phrase that appeals to
one or more of the five senses
10.Lyric Poem:– Highly musical verse that expresses
the observations and feelings of a single speaker
11.Metaphor:– A figure of speech in which
something is described as though it were something else
12.Mood:– The feeling created in the reader
by a literary work
13.Narrative Poem:– A story told in verse
14.Onomatopoeia:– The use of words that imitate
sounds
15.Personification:– A type of figurative language in
which a non-human subject is given human characteristics
16.Refrain:– A regularly repeated line or group of
lines in a poem
17.Repetition:– The use, more than once, of any
element of language
18.Rhyme:– Repetition of sounds at the end of
words
19.Rhyme Scheme:– A regular pattern of rhyming
words in a poem
20.Rhythm:– Pattern of beats or stresses in
spoken or written language21.Simile:
– A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas
22.Stanza:– A formal division of lines in a
poem considered as a unit
My love is like a red rose.
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Humor & PoetryHumor & Poetry
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
Rhythm & Rhyme• Using more spirited language makes
humorous situations even more humorous
“The Porcupine”By Ogden Nash
Any hound a porcupine nudgesCan’t be blamed for harboring grudges.
I know one hound that laughed all winter
At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.
If you take away the rhythm and rhyme, the humor
vanishes.
Any hound that touches a porcupineCan’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
Lewis Carroll1832-1898
• Born in England• Wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland• Wrote Through the Looking Glass• His life was quiet and uneventful, but in
works like Father William, he found escape from his serious work into a delightfully zany, topsy-turvy world that still amuses children old and young.
“Father William”Page 400
• In this poem, a young man questions his father about some rather unusual behavior.
• Have you ever asked someone what they were doing and received an explanation that made very little sense at all?
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.
LimericksThere 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!
Limerick About a BeeI wish that my room had a
floor,I don’t care so much for a
door.But this walking around
Without touching the groundIs getting to be quite a bore.
Another Limerick
There once was a very small mouseWho lived in a very small house,
The ocean’s sprayWashed it away,
All that was left was her blouse!
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.
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 ___________.
Mrs. Smith’s Limerick:
There once was a man from Japan.All the while he hoped for a tan.
So he lay on the beach,And ate a ripe peach,
That came from a Georgia van.