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VocabularyVocabulary

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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.