POETRY

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

What is the definition of poetry??

What elements make a poem a poem
according to you? Simply give your opinion, there are
no right or wrong answers here.

What about poems that do use certain techniques? What techniques have you heard of so far?

What 'techniques' can you see being used in this poem?

SOUND IN POETRY

SOUND:

*alliteration

*assonance
*consonance

*onomatopoeia

*rhyme

*rhythm

Alliteration

When a consonant sound at the start of the word is repeated within a line. 

Make an example with alliteration.

Assonance

When a vowel sound (within a word, not as the starting letter!)is repeated within a line. 

Make an example with assonance.

Consonance

When a consonant sound (within a word, not as the starting letter!)is repeated within a line. 

Make an example with consonance.

Onomatopoeia

Word is written like it sounds.

Which onomatopoeic words do you know?

RHYME

Usually at the END of a line = end rhyme

3 types of end rhyme:

-FULL rhyme

-HALF rhyme
-EYE rhyme

FULL RHYME:

Mat-cat-sat

see-flee

run-gun

sit-lit-grit

etc...

now, over to you.....

EYE rhyme

though

tough

plough

dough

Words that LOOK like they rhyme, but actually don't

HALF RHYME

words that --almost!-- rhyme, but not exactly fully

Sock-dog

bag-snack

heart-hurt

To my Wife 

by George Wolff

Metaphor

• Imagery (beeldspraak)
• A comparison without using 'like' or 'as'


• Does not literally mean what it states
  
  
• Right before confronting her teacher she got cold feet.
• She became afraid and did not want to do it anymore.
• All the world is a stage (a famous quote by Shakespeare)
• Here the world is compared to a stage with actors on it, life is just a play

'Metaphors'

Can you write some metaphors?

more examples

Simile

• Comparison using 'like' or 'as.'

• The dark clouds covered the city like a thick black blanket.
• School is like hell. 

Try using a simile yourself and be original...!

Personification

• When something that's not human/inanimate is given human characteristics
  e.g.:

• I love my thesaurus, which always helps me when I need to find a more academic word! 
  
• The sun tiptoed across the mountain top.

Summing up

Metaphor: a comparison without using 'as' or 'like'

Simile: a comparison using 'as' or 'like'

Personification: when something that isn't human is given human characteristics

Make a really original poem with a metaphor or a personification or a simile. Try 6 lines

STRUCTURE

STRUCTURE IN POETRY:

* STANZA

*TYPES OF STANZAS

*DIFFERENT POETIC FORMS AND STRUCTURES

*REPETITION

*ENJAMBMENT

STANZA

A 'paragraph' in a prose text is a 'stanza' in poetry

stanza length

different sizes of stanza are called different names based on how many lines they have. 

Different poetry forms

*Sonnet
*Haiku
*limerick

Repetition

*When words, phrases or complete sentences are repeated for effect.

Enjambment

Assignment:

*Read the story 'Rabbit in a Mixer Survives' again

*Read the poem that Roger McGough made of it afterwards

*With a partner grab a pen or pencil and start annotating the poem, referencing to techniques you've learned in class.

*Only after having done that: make a comparison between the poem and the newspaper article. List all the differences and similarities in two columns