Poetry and Ads

Check out these funny commericals to see that ads use the same devices as poetry to get their messages across.

Poetry Notes

Poetry Terms

Blank Verse Power Point Notes
Poetry Terms Power Point
Sonnet Power Point

Poetry a rhythmic compressed language that uses comparisons and images to appeal to a reader's imagination and emotions.

Narrative poetry-a poem that tells a story

Lyric poetry-a pome that expresses emotion

Ballad-a poem that is meant to be sung

Rhyme-two or more words that repeat the same sound

Meter-the words create a kind of beat

Symbols-Some words feel special. They represent something beyond their literal meaning.

Repetition- Some phrases or words are repeated.

hyperbole-extreme exaggeration

meter-alternating lines of stressed and unstressed syllables that create a beat.

Common meter- alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter.

Syllable- the smallest unit of spoken language

Iamb-two syllable units. Stress is placed on the second syllable

Tetrameter- four iambs (8 syllables that have a unstressed, stressed pattern)

Trimeter-three iambs (6 syllables that have a unstressed, stressed pattern)