Purpose: to express feelings and views of life.
Language Features:
1.
Alliteration: same consonant letter or sound in
two or more words that are close together, e.g. Betty Botter bought some butter
2.
Assonance: same vocal letter or sound in two or
more words that are close together, e.g. I lie
here, and cry, my eyes like fires
3.
Euphemism: a polite or less direct way of
saying something, e.g. He was a stranger to the truth (He told lies); Her
clothes have seen better these days (Her clothes are bad or old).
4.
Hyperbole: an exaggeration, e.g. Your face is
shining like a sunshine. Her eyes make the stars look like they’re not shining,
Her hair falls perfectly without her trying.
5.
Onomatopoeia: using words that sounds like the
action they represent, e.g. The click
of his fingers, The hiss of a snake,
Knock.. knock..
6.
Personification: describing non human things as
though they were human, e.g. the bird sang,
the leaves were calling me.
7.
Simile: To show similarity of two or more
things: like, as if, as though: Her eyes make the stars look like they’re not shining
8.
Metaphor: To show something is something else:
is and are, e.g. They are shy, cold girl.
9.
Rhyme: same sound of the ending of each line
10.
Rhythm: the beat of a poem
11.
Rhetorical Question: doesn’t need answer, e.g
What should I do but laugh and go?
Unique Types of
Poem you would like to know:
1.
Acrostic poem: The first letter of the first words in each
line spells the subjects of the poem.
2.
Limerick: There are 5 lines in it. Lines 1, 2, and 5
share the same rhyme and lines 3, 4 share the different rhyme (a a b b a).
3.
Haiku: A Japanese form of poetry that has 3 lines. The
first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third one
has 5 syllables.
4.
Cinquain: There are 5 lines. Line 1 has 1 word, line 2
has 2 words, line 3 has 3 words, line 4 has 4 words, and line 5 has only 1
word.
Limerick:
The Man named Tim
There was a young man named
Tim
Whose dad never taught him to
swim
He fell off a Dock
And sunk like a rock
And that was the end of him
Make your own poem!
Haiku:
Winter
A frosty morning
Children sitting together
With Shoulders up high
Acrostic Poem:
Thunder
Terrifying sound
High above
Un-nerving
Noisy, so loud
Disturbing the peace
Electrical energy gone wild
Reverberating all around
Cinquain:
Lizard
Lizards
shiny, sleepy
resting in sunshine
look at him closely
prehistoric
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-A true
friend is someone who knows the lyric of your heart
and can
sing it back for you when you forget about it-
I am an English teacher in SMA N 1 Pati who love to read and write. -You know my name, not my story. You know what I've done, not what I've been through. If you were on my shoes, you'd fall at the first step.- ^_^
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