rhyme, rhyme scheme, alliteration, onomatopoeia, hyperbole, simile, etc...

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Poetry
Let’s Review our Terms

2. +  Nothing Gold Can Stay
Rhyme
Nature’s first green is gold,
 The repeating sounds at the Her hardest hue to hold.
end of words
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
-Robert Frost

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Do you see
the rhyme?

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Rhyme Scheme
 The pattern of rhyming words in
a poem
 It is determined by the last word
in the line
 The first line gets an “a” and
any rhyming lines get an “a”
also. If it doesn’t rhyme with
the first line, it gets a “be”, if it
doesn’t rhyme with either “a” or
“be” it gets a “c”, etc…

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Examples of Rhyme Scheme

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More Examples of Rhyme Scheme

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Alliteration
 When the beginning sounds of  If Peter Piper picked a
words repeat in lines
peck of piczkled of
peppers, how many
pickled peppers did
Peter Piper pick?

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Can you find the alliteration?
 Fast Rabbits  The Wonderful Wind
 Rabbits running so very fast In  The wonderful wind whistles
the field of green, green Repeated reminders
grass. Sniffing for scents of throughout the day Telling tales
snack time treats, Hippity of what is coming Predicting
Hopping on their happy bunny and preparing us to pray. The
feet. When carrots and other wise wind sometimes
foods are found The rabbits whispers The secrets that have
prance and pounce. been secretly hid.

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Simile
 Comparing two different things  My Love is Like a Red Red
using the words “like” or “as” Rose
• My love is like a red red
rose That’s newly sprung in
June; My love is like the
melodie That’s sweetly play’d
in tune.
• -Robert Burns

10. +  Flint
Can you find any
An emerald is as green as
similes in this grass, A ruby red as blood; A
poem? sapphire shines as blue as
heaven; A flint lies in the mud.
A diamond is a brilliant
stone, To catch the world's
desire; An opal holds a fiery
spark; But a flint holds a fire.
Christina Rossetti
1830-1894

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Hyperbole
 HUGE exaggeration  I have mountains of work to do.
 Hyperbole is an over  I am so hungry I could eat a
exaggerated expression or an horse.
overstatement, for a specific
effect. It may be to be funny or
very emotional.

12. +  School Fight
Is there any You can’t hear a pin drop
hyperbole in this As all the kids gather around;
poem? They are vultures
Waiting for the corpse
Of the one who loses.
The tall kid…
He swings his fist with his hurricane
force.
A torrential spray of blood
Explodes from the smaller boy’s nose
And covers the tiled floor.
The vultures fly away
As the teachers quickly approach.

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Onomatopoeia
 Words that imitate the sounds  Meow, clink, snap, crackle,
they make. pop, boom, mumble, buzz, fizz,
click

14. +  Cafeteria
Which words are  Boom! Went the food trays.
examples of Clap! Clap! Goes the
teacher. Rip! Went the plastic
bag. Munch! Munch! Go the
Onomatopoeia? students. Slurp!!! Went the
straws. Whisper Is what half the
kids in the room are
doing. Crunch! Crunch! go the
candy bars.
 By: Rachael

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Refrain
 A sound, word, phrase or line  In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, The
repeated regularly in a poem. Raven, Poe uses the word
Often it is at the end of a “Nevermore” throughout the
stanza. poem as a refrain.

16. + Refrain
What is the
The air is dark, the night is sad,
refrain in this I lie sleepless and I groan.
poem? Nobody cares when a man goes mad:
He is sorry, God is glad.
Shadow changes into bone.
Every shadow has a name;
When I think of mine I moan,
I hear rumors of such fame.
Not for pride, but only shame,
Shadow changes into bone.
When I blush I weep for joy,
And laughter drops from me like a stone:
The aging laughter of the boy
To see the ageless dead so coy.
Shadow changes into bone.
-Allen Ginsberg

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Now that you have reviewed, let’s
practice….