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What is the definition of poetry??

Slide 2 - Open question

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

Slide 3 - Mind map

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

Slide 4 - Open question

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

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SOUND IN POETRY

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SOUND:
*alliteration
*assonance
*consonance
*onomatopoeia
*rhyme
*rhythm

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

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Make an example with alliteration.

Slide 9 - Open question

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

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Make an example with assonance.

Slide 11 - Open question

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

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Make an example with consonance.

Slide 13 - Open question

Onomatopoeia
Word is written like it sounds.

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Which onomatopoeic words do you know?

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RHYME
Usually at the END of a line = end rhyme

3 types of end rhyme:
-FULL rhyme
-HALF rhyme
-EYE rhyme

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FULL RHYME:
Mat-cat-sat
see-flee
run-gun
sit-lit-grit
etc...

now, over to you.....

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EYE rhyme
though
tough
plough
dough

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

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

Sock-dog
bag-snack
heart-hurt


To my Wife 
by George Wolff

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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

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'Metaphors'

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Can you write some metaphors?

Slide 22 - Open question

more examples

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Simile
  • Comparison using 'like' or 'as.'

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

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Slide 25 - Video

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

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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.

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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

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

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STRUCTURE

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STRUCTURE IN POETRY:
* STANZA
*TYPES OF STANZAS
*DIFFERENT POETIC FORMS AND STRUCTURES
*REPETITION
*ENJAMBMENT

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STANZA


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

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stanza length

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

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Different poetry forms
*Sonnet
*Haiku
*limerick

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

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Enjambment

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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

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