1. POETRY
ETHAN HOVELAND

2. POETIC DEVICES

3. 1. speaker - a person giving a speech or talking
2. diction - the style of enunciating
3. imagery - Figurative language using visual descriptions
4. allusion - an indirect reference
5. simile - when two things are being compared
6. personification - giving human qualities to non-human things
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Poetic Devices

4. 7. metaphor - figurative speech that doesn’t use like or as
8. refrain - a part of a poem or song that is repeated
9. symbol - something that represents something else
10. stanza - a verse
11. alliteration - the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the
beginning of words
12. onomatopoeia - using words to imitate sounds
13. enjambment - the continuation of one line in a verse to the next
14. connotation - the implication of feelings
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5. 15. denotation - the literal meaning of a word
16. euphemism - a word or phrase that explains something in a
nicer way
17. tone - Attitude towards a subject
18. hyperbole - exaggerated statements not to be taken literally
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6. • CHAPTER 2 •• CHAPTER 2 •
Blackout poetry - when you get a piece of text, like a
newspaper, and cross out words with a marker to
make a poem.
BLACKOUT POETRY

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Examples Of Blackout Poetry

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Poem with 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the
second, 5 in the third.
HAIKU

9. The crow has flown away:
swaying in the evening sun,
a leafless tree.
Over the wintry
forest, winds howl in rage
with no leaves to blow.
Everything I touch
with tenderness, alas,
pricks like a bramble.
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Haiku Examples

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“I am” poems are poems that are written
about you in a certain order. ex. - A lot of
the lines start with I am.
“I AM” POEMS

11. I am sedate and young
I wonder about my life
I hear many different music
I see colorful colors
I want the most out of life
I am sedate and young
I pretend to not be worried
I feel anxious
I touch many things
I worry about the future
I cry when horrible things happen
I am sedate and young
I understand some things
I say to find hobbies
I dream about past mistakes
I try to do my best
I hope to learn from mistakes
I am sedate and young
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My I Am Poem

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-An English Sonnet is poem that has 14 lines. It usually has around 10 syllables per line.
-A Italian Sonnet is a sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme pattern abbaabba, followed by a
sestet with the rhyme pattern cdecde or cdcdcd
SONNETS

13. Turn back the heart you've turned away
Give back your kissing breath
Leave not my love as you have left
The broken hearts of yesterday
But wait, be still, don't lose this way
Affection now, for what you guess
May be something more, could be less
Accept my love, live for today.
Your roses wilted, as love spurned
Yet trust in me, my love and truth
Dwell in my heart, from which you've turned
My strength as great as yours aloof.
It is in fear you turn away
And miss the chance of love today!
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Italian Sonnet

14. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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English Sonnet

15. Our Sonnet - The Magic Cow
We are gunna go to the carnival
we will eat cherry ice cream all day long
then we will go to the place where there are
people and puppets playing with children
when we finally leave the puppet place
we will skip all the way to the bathroom
and once we finish there we will go home
after that we can go to the barber
at that barber we will get our beards shaved
then since our manly beards have been removed
we venture out to the magical barn
to fight the magic cow with our utters
if we do our best then we will beat him
when the cow is gone we will rest our heads
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Our Sonnet

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CONCRETE POEMS

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A poem where the first letter from each name forms
a name or saying.
ACROSTIC POEM

18. S heep were gathering in the meadow
H appily eating grass
A nd
R ipe
P lants.
A bove the hill
S at a hungry wolf,
A waiting the time
T o
A ttack the herd of sheep.
C almly he waits to go in for the
K ill.
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My Acrostic Poem

19. M y swagger be off da chain
Y ou see me walking by
S up ladies
W anna catch a movie
A nd get a bite to eat
G irls be like
G et away freak
E very day I be swooning the ladies
R ight now you getting swooned.
O nly da best can roll with me
F ollow me on Twitter @SwaggerStan
F o yo information
D on’t forget it
A nd you won’t regret it
Call me up at 641-485-SwagSwagSwag
Hit me up on FaceBook @BadgerSwagger
And don’t forget to
I nstagram me @Swagalicious
NBD.
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Stanley’s Acrostic Poem

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A poem that doesn’t rhyme or have a regular meter.
FREE VERSE

21. Everyone sat inside and stared at the flames
While the storm raged outside.
Trying to gather all the warmth that they could,
They all huddled together closer,
trying to escape the jaws of death.
After the storm dies,
they all leave.
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Free Verse

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A poem when the words are slightly changed to mean
a different things.
PARODY POEM

23. Regular Poem
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Parody Poem
Fire! Fire! burning bright
In the city in the night,
What man or woman
Could help with this fearful disaster?
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Parody Poem