Creative

Writing
PAINTING IS SILENT POETRY,
AND POETRY IS PAINTING
THAT SPEAKS.
_Plutarch_
LEARNING OBJECTIVE:
Identify the various elements,
techniques, and literary devices
in poetry,
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CORRECT ME
IF I’M
WRONG!
1. OTERYP - A type of literature that
expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a
story in a specific form (usually using
lines and stanzas)

2. TAZNAS - A unit of lines grouped

together
3. HYMER MECHES - The pattern in which
end rhyme occurs.

4. ATELRLIAIOTN - Consonant sounds

repeated at the beginnings of words.

5. ISEIML - A comparison using like or

as.
1. POETRY
2. STANZA
3. RHYME SCHEME
4. ALLITERATION
5. SIMILE
POETRY
POETRY
 A type of
literature that
expresses ideas,
feelings, or tells a
story in a specific
form (usually
using lines and
stanzas)
 POINT OF VIEW IN POETRY
POET SPEAKER

• The poet is the • The speaker of the

author of the poem. poem is the
“narrator” of the
poem.
 POETRY FORM

FORM - the  A word is dead

appearance of the
 When it is said,
words on the page
 Some say.
LINE - a group of
words together on
one line of the poem  I say it just
STANZA - a group of  Begins to live
lines arranged  That day.
together
 Stanza
•A unit of lines grouped
together
•Similar to a paragraph in prose
Couplet- •A stanza consisting of
two lines that rhyme

Quatrain - •A stanza consisting

of four lines
Mood- the feeling a poem
creates for the reader

Tone - the attitude a poet takes

toward his/her subject
 Sound Techniques
Rhyme Scheme
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
 Rhyme Scheme
Heavy is my heart, A
Dark are thine eyes B
Thou and I must part A
Ere the sun rise B
Rhyme Scheme- The pattern in which end rhyme
occurs

• Example:

Continuous as the stars that shine (A)

And twinkle on the milky way, (B)
They stretched in never-ending line (A)
Along the margin of a bay: (B)
Ten thousand saw I at a glance, (C)
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. (C)
 Alliteration
Repetition of the initial consonant sound
“She sells seashells at the sea shore”
 ALLITERATION
Consonant sounds repeated at the
beginnings of words

 If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled

peppers, how many pickled peppers did
Peter Piper pick?
 Onomatopoeia
A word whose sound imitates its
meaning
 More onomatopoeia
“The bee buzzed by my ear “

“The clock ticked down the final hour”

“The engine purred while waiting the

green light”
 Assonance
•The repetition of a vowel sound in two
or more words in the line of a poem •

• Example: “Which is the bliss of

solitude”
 ASSONANCE
Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or
lines of poetry.

 (Often creates near rhyme.)

 Lake Fate Base Fade

 (All share the long “a” sound.)
 ASSONANCE cont.
Examples of ASSONANCE:
“Slow the low gradual moan came in the
snowing.”
- John Masefield

“Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet

sleep.”
- William Shakespeare
 CONSONANCE
Similar to alliteration EXCEPT . . .

The repeated consonant sounds can be

anywhere in the words

 “silken, sad, uncertain, rustling . . “

 Refrain
•The repetition of one or more phrases
or lines at certain intervals, usually at
the end of each stanza
•Similar to the chorus in a song
 Repetition
•A word or phrase repeated within a
line or stanza •
• Example: “gazed and gazed”
Literary Devices in Poetry
 You’re
Ice
Love is Winds of cold Light of My
Blind Change Life

Rolling in
I Smell
a Rat What Is A Metaphor? Dough

Apple of my eye Let the Cat Out

Heart of of the Bag
stone
The Sweet Smell of Success

The World
Is a Stage… Bite the
Bullet
True Definition of Metaphors
Makes Comparisons Between
Two Unrelated Subjects

Expands the Sense

and Clarifies Meaning
 Why are Metaphors
Significant in Poetry?

Symbolism
Makes Language Livelier
Writers Use Them
Without Stating Obvious
Gives Words New Meaning
 Metaphor

Direct Metaphor

Comparing two unlike objects or ideas

My love is a rose
 Simile
A comparison using like or as
“Life is like a box of chocolates”
 Personification
Giving human qualities to an inanimate
object
“The moon smiled down on the lovers”
 Imagery
•Representation of the five senses:
sight, taste, touch, sound, and smell
•Creates mental images about a poem’s
subject
• Example: “Continuous as the
stars that shine and twinkle on the
milky way”
 FREE VERSE POETRY
Does NOT have Free verse poetry is
rhyme. very conversational -
sounds like someone
talking with you.

A more modern type

of poetry.
 BLANK VERSE POETRY
from Julius Ceasar

Cowards die many times before their

deaths;
Written in lines of The valiant never taste of death but
iambic pentameter, once.
but does NOT use Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
end rhyme. It seems to me most strange that men
should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
 RHYME
Words sound alike  LAMP
because they share  STAMP
the same ending
vowel and consonant
 Share the short “a”
sounds.
vowel sound
 Share the combined
“mp” consonant
(A word always sound
rhymes with itself.)
 END RHYME
A word at the end of one line rhymes
with a word at the end of another line

 Hector the Collector

 Collected bits of string.
 Collected dolls with broken heads
 And rusty bells that would not ring.
 INTERNAL RHYME
A word inside a line rhymes with
another word on the same line.

 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I

pondered weak and weary.

 From “The Raven”

 by Edgar Allan Poe
PLAN FOR READING A POEM
FIRST READING SECOND READING

Read to enjoy the Read the meaning.

poem. Look for clues to get
the main idea.

THIRD READING FOURTH READING

Note the rhyming Note the mood and tone
scheme, literary device, of the poem. How do you
and sounds. feel about it?
“All mine!" Yertle cried. "Oh, the things I now rule!
I'm king of a cow! And I'm king of a mule!
I'm king of a house! And what's more, beyond that,
I'm king of a blueberry bush and cat!
I'm Yertle the Turtle! Oh, marvelous me!
For I am the ruler of all that I see!”
from “Yertle the Turtle”
by Dr. Seuss