1. What is poetry all about?
Ms. Delgado and Dr. Gonzalez
7th Grade

2. WHAT IS POETRY?
•Poems are made up of words that create
images or pictures in our minds.
•Many poems sound like songs when you
read them aloud. This is because some
poems have a regular rhythm and repeated
lines, words or sounds.

3. WHAT IS POETRY?
•Poems have shorter lines than most
sorts of writing. The words of a poem
may be written in short sentences or
lists. Sometimes, poems may be shaped
to represent a topic, or they might be
scattered all over the page.

4. WHAT IS POETRY?
•There are no special topics for poems.
They can be about mosquitoes, babies,
the sea, supermarkets, friends,
skateboards, mountains, anything at all.

5. WHAT IS POETRY?
•Poems can be conversations,
statements, stories or descriptions.
They can be serious or funny. They are
written for many purposes: to
describes something, to tell a story, to
explain feelings.

6. WHAT IS POETRY?
•The words in a poem must have
meaning for the reader. They are not
simply words scattered on a page. The
meaning of a poem will vary from one
poem to another, and from one reader
to another.

7. Poetry
Features of Poems

8. FEATURES OF POEMS
Poems have meaning.
•Poems can describe an interesting
place or person, tell a story or explain
feelings.

9. POEMS FEATURES
Poems have sounds.
Poems sound different from other
types of writing. Poems may have
rhyming words, a regular rhythm like
music, words with repeated sounds, or
even words that sound like their
meaning.

10. FEATURES OF POEMS
Poems have images.
Poems create pictures in our mind,
called images. Images often refer to our
sense of sight, smell, sound, taste and
touch. An image may describe something,
or it may compare one thing to another.
Images help you see something as if it is
really there.

11. FEATURES OF
POETRY
Poems have lines.
Poems have lines that may be long or
short, and can be made up of whole
sentences or sentence fragments. Some
poems have lines arranged in stanzas. A
stanza is a group of lines that are
arranged in a definite pattern. In other
poems, the lines make a picture or shape
to illustrate the topic.

12. FEATURES OF POETRY
Poems have patterns.
Poems have patterns of letters,
syllables and words. These patterns often
help you to hear the rhythm of a poem.
Some types of poems have patterns with a
particular number of syllables in each line,
and others have words repeated
throughout the poem.

13. Poetry
Vocabulary

14. •Alliteration:
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
•Allusion:
A reference to a well-known person,
place, event, literary work, or work of art
•Ballad:
A song-like poem that tells a story
•Blank Verse:
Poetry written in unrhymed, ten-
syllable lines

15. •Concrete Poem:
A poem with a shape that suggests its
subject
•Figurative Language:
Writing that is not meant to be taken
literally
•Free Verse:
Poetry not written in a regular
rhythmical pattern or meter
•Haiku:
•A three-lined Japanese verse

16. •Image:
A word or phrase that appeals to one or
more of the five senses
10. Limerick:
A limerick is a five-line poem in or meter
with a strict rhyme scheme, which intends to be
witty or humorous.
11. Lyric Poem:
Highly musical verse that expresses the
observations and feelings of a single speaker

17. 12. Metaphor:
A figure of speech in which something
is described as though it were something
else.
13. Mood:
The feeling created in the reader by a
literary work.
14. Narrative Poem:
A story told in verse

18. 15. Onomatopoeia:
The use of words that imitate sounds
16. Personification:
A type of figurative language in which
a non-human subject is given human
characteristics.

19. 17. Refrain:
A regularly repeated line or group of
lines in a poem.
18. Repetition:
The use, more than once, of any
element of language.
19. Rhyme:
Repetition of sounds at the end of
words.

20. 20. Rhyme Scheme:
A regular pattern of rhyming words
in a poem.
21. Rhythm:
Pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or
written language.
22. Simile:
A figure of speech that uses like or as to
make a direct comparison between two unlike
ideas.
My love is like a red rose.

21. 23.Stanza:
A formal division of lines in a poem
considered as a unit

22. 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.

23. Another Limerick
• 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!

24. YOU WILL CREATE A
LIMERICK SIMILAR
TO THIS ONE…
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.

25. 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
___________.