For English class

1. EMALIE’S POETRY
BOOK
ENGLISH 2013

2. A poetic device is a technique or tool used in poetry,
which helps to improve the quality of your poetry. A po-
etic device may include figures of speech such as allit-
eration, metaphors, similes, and personifications. Other
poetic devices include repetition, rhythm, stanzas and
point of view.
POETRY DEVICES
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3. DEFINITIONS
1. Speaker - a person who speaks
2. Diction - the choice and use of words adn phrases in speech or
writing
3. Imagery - 5 senses in your head
4. Allusion - an expression designed to call something to mind with-
out mentioning it explicitly
5. Simile - figure of speech
6. Personification - naming something that is nonhuman
7. Metaphor - word or phrase is applied to an object or action to
which it is not literally applicable
8. Refrain - repeats
9. Symbol - something that represents or stands for something else
10. Stanza - group of lines forming the basic recurring metrical unit
in a poem
11. Alliteration/Occurrence - of the same letter or sound at the begin-
ning of adjacent or closely connected words
12. Onomatopoeia - formation of a word from a sound associated
with what is named
13. Enjambment - continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of
verse into the next line without a pause
14. Connotation - idea or feeling that a word invokes for a person in
addition to its literal or primary meaning
15. Denotation - the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast
to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests
16. Euphemism - mild or indirect word or expression for one too
harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrass-
ing
17. Tone - the overall quality of a musical or vocal sound: "the piano
tone is lacking in warmth"
18. Hyperbole - exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be
taken literally
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4. “Blackout poetry” is poetry made by redacting
the words in a text with a permanent marker,
leaving behind only a few choice words to make
a poem
BLACKOUT POETRY
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This is my blackout poetry
that was made in my 2013
English class.
These are just other exam-
ples that aren't mine.

6. An unrhymed verse form of Japanese origin having
three lines consisting of five, seven, five (in that order)
syllables respectively. Known as
a 5, 7, 5.
An old silent pond.....
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.
Basho (1644-1694)
HAIKU
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My Haiku
Summer here again
Winter is finally gone
Fall is on the way.

7. The format for this special poem was created by Alysa
Cummings, who was the inspiration for several of the
fill-in-the-blank poems. These I am poems allow you to
look at what you see in yourself. They help you improve
your self-esteem, and let you see what you see of
yourself.
I AM
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8. WHAT THE POEM LOOKS LIKE
FIRST STANZA
I am (two special characteristics you have)
I wonder (something you are actually curious about)
I hear (an imaginary sound)
I see (an imaginary sight)
I want (an actual desire)
I am (the first line o the poem repeated)
SECOND STANZA
I pretend (something you actually pretend to do)
I feel (a feeling about something imaginary)
I touch (an imaginary touch)
I worry (something that really bothers you)
I cry (something that makes you very sad)
I am (the first line of the poem repeated)
THIRD STANZA
I understand (something you know is true)
I say (something you believe in)
I dream (something you actually dream about)
I try (something you really make an effort about)
I hope (something you actually hope for)
I am (the first line or the poem repeated)7

9. (Sample)
I Am
I am sharp and focused
I wonder what the camera really sees
I hear the buzzing bee
I see flowers in the early morning light
I want to stop time in a box
I am sharp and focused
I pretend to be a statue
I feel the shakes inside
I touch the shutter button
I worry about the blurry result
I cry that the moment has forever passed
I am sharp and focused
I understand moments in time
I say let’s freeze them forever
I dream of watercolor effects coming to life
I try to see all the soft muted edges
I hope it happens someday
I am sharp and focused
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10. MY I AM POEM
I am me and beautiful as I can be
I wonder who I will be in the future
I hear my family and friends encouraging me
I see what vision gives me
I want to be the best that I can be
I am me and beautiful as I can be
I pretend I know what the future holds
I feel scared of what I don’t know
I touch the clouds as I wonder
I worry about my life
I cry when things go wrong
I am me and as beautiful the way I am
I understand the things that come easy to me
I say “I’m fine” when really I’m a mess inside
I dream that I will be successful
I try my hardest to get there
I hope one day I will
I am me and as beautiful as I can be
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11. A sonnet is a poetic form which originated in Italy; the
Sicilian poet Giacomo da Lentini is credited with its in-
vention. The term sonnet derives from the Italian word
sonetto, meaning “little song”, and by the thirteenth
century it signified a poem of fourteen lines that follows
a strict rhyme scheme and specific structure.
SONNET
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12. MY FATHER
My father is the best a daughter could have
He is the one what was there, even when not asked
Always there, always loving, through thick and thin
He’d be there, I could depend on him
I messed things up, wish I wouldn’t have
But there is no going back, things are done
I can say sorry, but that wouldn’t change anything
But yet,he would still be right there waiting
He’d do anything for his little girl
He’s who I look up to, he’s my hero
He taught me everything I know
He helped me wit everything I needed
I can’t say it enough, thank you for being there
This man is my father, and I love hime more then anything
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13. Concrete poetry or shape poetry is poetry in which the
typographical arrangement of words is as important in
conveying the intended effect as the conventional ele-
ments of the poem, such as meaning of words, rhythm,
rhyme and so on.It is sometimes referred to as visual
poetry, a term that has evolved to have distinct mean-
ing of its own, but which shares the distinction of being
poetry in which the visual elements are as important as
the.
CONCRETE
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14. An acrostic is a poem or other form of writing in which the first let-
ter, syllable or word of each line, paragraph or other recurring fea-
ture in the text spells out a would or a message. As a form of con-
strained writing, an acrostic can be used as a mnemonic device
to aid memory retrieval.
Eager
Muscular
Adroit
Laughing constantly
Interesting
Ebullient
Keen
Active
Yelling sometimes not even on purpose
ACROSTIC
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15. FREE VERSE
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Free verse is an open form of
poetry. It does not use consis-
tent meter patterns, rhyme, or
any other musical pattern. It
thus tends to follow the rhythm
of natural speech.