Poetry II

Welcome to Poetry II
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Welcome to Poetry II

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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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Robert Burns
My love is like a red, red rose


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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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Meter
the rhythm of a poem

a sequence of stressed and unstressed syllables 

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Literary tools
Simile: compare with 'as' or 'like'

Metaphor: compare with 'to be' or similar word, not 'as' or 'like'

Alliteration: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

Rhyme

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Write
Minimum requirements:
8 lines
  • one topic: love 
  •  one simile or metaphor
  • use rhyme 
  • one instance of alliteration

Ready? 
Read your book

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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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Rhyme scheme
Rhyme = 
repetition of the last sounds  of a word.

Day - May                    A

temperate - date          B

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