| Poetry is made up of so many specific patters | | | | -What is Palindrome Poetry ? |
| and language. There are as many forms of | | | | |
| poetry as there are writers who pen it. Here | | | | - Forms of Poetry for Children |
| I have gather some resources to specific | | | | |
| patterns of poetry and I have attempted to | | | | - Diamonte Poetry |
| describe for you the figurative language | | | | |
| found in poetry. | | | | - What is an acrostic poem? |
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| Specific Patterns of Poetry | | | | - Acrostic Poetry |
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| - What is Traditional Poetry?traditional" | | | | - How to Write a Clerihew Poem |
| poetry is the kind of poetry we hear most | | | | |
| often. Traditional poetry has a certain | | | | - The Art of Haiku Poetry |
| formex: Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall, | | | | |
| Humpty-Dumpty had a great fall; | | | | - How to Write Limerick Poetry |
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| - What is Free Verse Poetry? | | | | - How to write Cinquain Poetry |
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| Free verse is poetry that is written without | | | | What is a metaphor?a figure of speech in |
| proper rules about form, rhyme, rhythm, | | | | which an expression is used to refer to |
| meter, etc. | | | | something that it does not literally denote |
| | | | in order to suggest a similarity |
| The greatest American writer of free verse is | | | | |
| probably Walt Whitman | | | | Understanding metaphors |
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| With free verse the poem can tell a story, | | | | What is a simile?a figure of speech that |
| describe a person, animal, feeling or object. | | | | expresses a resemblance between things of |
| They can serious, sad, funny or educational. | | | | different kinds (usually formed with `like' |
| There are no limits | | | | or `as') |
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| - What is a tongue twister?an expression that | | | | - The Simile Satellite Activities This site |
| is difficult to articulate clearly; "`Peter | | | | explores the function, form and effect of |
| Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. ' is | | | | simile in poetry. |
| a tongue twister" | | | | |
| | | | What is alliteration ?the repetition of |
| -What is ode poetry? | | | | consonant sounds - usually at the beginning |
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| An Ode is a poem praising and glorifying a | | | | |
| person, place or thing. | | | | What is onomatopoeia?a word that sounds like |
| | | | the thing it describes |
| - What is Monorhyme Poetry? | | | | |
| | | | Example: splash, wow, gush, kerplunk |
| A poem in which all the lines have the same | | | | |
| end rhyme. | | | | What is a trope? |
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| Ex: | | | | The intentional use of a word or expression |
| | | | figuratively, i.e., used in a different sense |
| Late for school I'm looking like a big fool | | | | from its original significance in order to |
| My brother thinks he rules While I'm loosing | | | | give vividness or emphasis to an idea. Some |
| my cool | | | | important types of trope are: antonomasia, |
| | | | irony, metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche. |
| - What is monody Poetry? | | | | Sidelight: Strictly speaking, a trope is the |
| | | | figurative use of a word or expression, while |
| A monody is a poem in which one person | | | | figure of speech refers to a phrase or |
| laments another's death, as in Tennyson's | | | | sentence used in a figurative sense. The two |
| Break, Break, Break, or Wordsworth's She | | | | terms, however, are often confused and used |
| Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways. | | | | interchangeably |
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| - What is Concrete Poetry?poetry in which the | | | | Examples: Metaphor, simile, oxymoron, and |
| poet's intent is conveyed by the shape formed | | | | hyperbole are all kinds of figurative |
| by the letters, words, or symbols that make | | | | language. |
| up the poem rather than by the conventional | | | | |
| arrangement of words | | | | What is personification?a person who |
| | | | represents an abstract quality; "she is the |
| Here is a good example of a concrete poem | | | | personification of optimism" |
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| - What is Quatrain Poetry? | | | | What is Synonyms?words or phrases which have |
| | | | similar meaning. |
| A Quatrain is a poem consisting of four lines | | | | |
| of verse with a specific rhyming scheme. | | | | What is a stanza?a fixed number of lines of |
| | | | verse forming a unit of a poem |
| A few examples of a quatrain rhyming scheme's | | | | |
| are as follows: | | | | What is imagery? |
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| #1) abab #2) abba -- envelope rhyme #3) aabb | | | | Image is language that evokes one or all of |
| #4) aaba, bbcb, ccdc, dddd -- chain rhyme | | | | the five senses: seeing, hearing, tasting, |
| | | | smelling, touching. |
| - How to write Pantoum poetry | | | | |
| | | | What is a muse? |