诗歌英文术语poetry

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– A three-lined Japanese verse
9. Image:
– A word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses
10. Lyric Poem:
– Highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker
Limericks
There once was a man with no hair. He gave everyone quite a scare. He got some Rogaine, Grew out a mane, And now he resembles a bear!
Limerick About a Bee
I wish that my room had a floor, I don’t care so much for a door. But this walking around Without touching the ground Is getting to be quite a bore.
Another Limerick
If you take away the rhythm and rhyme, the humor vanishes.
Any hound that touches a porcupine Can’t be blamed for holding a grudge I know one hound that laughed all winter long At a porcupine that sat on a piece of wood
– A song-like poem that tells a story
4. Blank Verse:
– Poetry written in unrhymed, tensyllable lines
5. Concrete Poem:
– A poem with a shape that suggests its subject
Poetry
Vocabulary
1. Alliteration:
2. Allusion:
– Repetition of initial consonant sounds
3. Ballad:
– A reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art
Lewis Carroll
1832-1898
• • • • Born in England Wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Wrote Through the Looking Glass His life was quiet and uneventful, but in works like Father William, he found escape from his serious work into a delightfully zany, topsy-turvy world that still amuses children old and young.
There once was a man from Beijing. All his life he hoped to be King. So he put on a crown, Which quickly fell down. That small silly man from Beijing.
Leabharlann Baidu
Mrs. Smith’s Limerick:
There once was a man from Japan. All the while he hoped for a tan. So he lay on the beach, And ate a ripe peach, That came from a Georgia van.
– A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas
22.Stanza:
– A formal division of lines in a poem considered as a unit
Limericks
• A limerick is a poem of five lines • The first, second, and fifth lines have three rhythmic beats and rhyme with one another. • The third and fourth lines have two beats and rhyme with one another. • They are always light-hearted, humorous poems.
19. Rhyme Scheme:
– A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
20.Rhythm:
– Pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language 21. Simile:
My love is like a red rose.
“Father William”
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• In this poem, a young man questions his father about some rather unusual behavior. • Have you ever asked someone what they were doing and received an explanation that made very little sense at all?
Fill in the blanks and create your own Limerick.
There once was a _____ from _____. All the while she/he hoped ________. So she/he ____________________, And ________________________, That _________ from ___________.
There once was a very small mouse Who lived in a very small house, The ocean’s spray Washed it away, All that was left was her blouse!
You will create a limerick similar to this one…
Poetry
Humor & Poetry
Humor
• Humor in poetry can arise from a number of sources:
– Surprise – Exaggeration – Bringing together of unrelated things
• Most funny poems have two things in common:
6. Figurative Language:
– Writing that is not meant to be taken literally
7. Free Verse:
– Poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter
8. Haiku:
16. Refrain:
– A regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem
17. Repetition:
– The use, more than once, of any element of language
18. Rhyme:
– Repetition of sounds at the end of words
13. Narrative Poem:
– A story told in verse
14. Onomatopoeia:
– The use of words that imitate sounds
15. Personification:
– A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics
– Rhythm – Rhyme
Rhythm & Rhyme
• Using more spirited language makes humorous situations even more humorous
“The Porcupine” By Ogden Nash
Any hound a porcupine nudges Can’t be blamed for harboring grudges. I know one hound that laughed all winter At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.
11. Metaphor:
– A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else
12. Mood:
– The feeling created in the reader by a literary work
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