LEARNING AND DISCOVERY IN OUR CLASSROOM: September 2008

SOME fun poetry click here .. choose some you like! and share with our class.

DIFFERENT TYPES OF POETRY

ALLITERATION: The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words.
ANTONYM: words that are opposite in meaning
ASSONANCE: The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or line of poetry.
BLANK VERSE: A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
CONNOTATION: The personal or emotional associations called up by a word that go beyond itsdictionary meaning.
DENOTATION: The dictionary meaning of a word.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE: A form of language use in which writers and speakers mean something other than the literal meaning of their words. (E.g. hyperbole, metaphor, and simile)
FORM: the arrangement, manner or method used to convey the content, such as free verse, couplet, limerick, haiku...
FREE VERSE: Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
HOMONYM: Two or more distinct words with the same pronunciation and spelling but with different meanings
HOMOPHONE: two or more words with the same pronunciation but with different meanings and spellings.
HYPERBOLE: an exaggeration of the truth
IMAGE: A concrete representation of a sense impression, a feeling, or an idea.
IMAGERY: Figurative language used to create particular mental images
METAPHOR: an association of two completely different objects as being the same thing
METER: The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems.
RHYME: The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
RHYTHM: The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
SETTING: The time and place of a literary work that establishes its context.
SIMILE: A figure of speech invoking a comparison between unlike things using "like," "as," or "as though."
STRUCTURE: The design or form of a literary work.
SYMBOL: An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself.
SYNONYM: One of two or more words that have the same or nearly the same meanings.
TONE: The implied attitude of a writer (or speaker) toward the subject and characters of a work