This lesson contains 18 slides, with text slides and 1 video.
Items in this lesson
Welcome to Poetry I
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Road map
English literature - poems
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Focus
You can define what makes a poem a poem
You can relate what
a rhyme scheme
meter
literary tools in general
are
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What is ...
a poem?
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Poem
'a piece of writing in which the words are arranged in separate lines, often ending in rhyme, and are chosen for their sound and for the images and ideas they suggest
Cambridge dictionary
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Your poems
haiku
lyric poem
shape poem
limerick
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Lyric poem: sonnet
14 lines
strict meter (iambic pentameter)
Shakespeare - Sonnet 18
'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day'
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Meter
the rhythm of a poem
a sequence of stressed and unstressed syllables
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Slide 9 - Video
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Rhyme scheme
Rhyme =
repetition of the last sounds of a word.
Day - May A
temperate - date B
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Literary tools
Simile
Metaphor
Alliteration
Rhyme (of course)
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Simile
I'm like the water when your ship rolled in that night
Rough on the surface but you cut through like a knife
And if it was an open-shut case
I never would've known from that look on your face
Lost in your current like a priceless wine
The more that you say
The less I know
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Metaphor
Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind (oh)