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| 1. Form – the way a poem looks on the page | 1. A poems form can be 1 stanza (short) or several stanzas (long) |
| 2. Lines – each “sentence” in a poem | 2. Roses are red (line 1) Violets are blue (line 2) |
| 3. Stanza - A group of lines; the “paragraphs” of a poem | 3. Roses are red Violets are blue You are as sweet as sugar Like cool Mountain Dew Stanza |
| 4. Free Verse – poetry written without a regular rhyme pattern | 4. This world can be mine With no set of instructions Just the world and me |
| 5. Rhyme – repetition of sounds at the end of words | 5. way up north, where there’s ice and snow, there lived a penguin and his name was Joe. |
| 6. End rhyme – occurs when words at the end of lines in a poem rhyme. | 6. Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow. |
| 7. Internal rhyme – words within a single line of a poem rhyme | 7. Men swift to see done, and outrun, their enemies… |
| 8. Couplet – 2 consecutive rhyming lines | 8. if turkeys gobble, then pilgrims squabble? |
| 9. Rhyme Scheme - the pattern of rhymes at the ends of lines in a poem. | 9. There once was a big brown cat That liked to eat a lot of mice He got all round and fat Because they tasted so nice. |
| 10. Repetition – repeated sounds, words, phrases, lines or even stanzas in a poem. With rhyme, particular sounds are repeated. | 10. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the kings horses and all the kings men Couldn’t put Humpty together again |
| 11. Narrative Poem – poetry that tells a story | 11. When I see birches bend to the left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think some boys been swinging them. |
| 12. Dramatic poetry – character(s) speak to other characters who may or may not be present in the poem; a crucial problem or conflict may be revealed in his or her life. | 12. Death bears a lonely face And seldom ever leaves a trace Of what once used to be; That of you and me. |
| 13. Lyric Poetry – highly musical verse that expresses emotions, attitudes, etc. | 13. Songs you listen to on the radio. |
| 14. Figurative Language – expressions that are not really true used to create fresh and original description | 14. Simile, hyperbole, alliteration, imagery, etc. |
| 15. Theme – the message about life and living it | 15. The best things in life are free. |
| 16. Denotation – the direct definition of a word | 16. Rain brings cold weather |
