Poetry

Try writing many different poems.

By the end of the unit, you should have at least 10 drafts.

Choose your 5 best to work more closely on and publish (pin up on the display board by your name) with the "What is Poetry?" page as the title page.

In this unit, you are expected to demonstrate knowledge of many literary terms and poetic devices, such as

• simile
• metaphor
• onomatopoeia
• personification
• alliteration
• assonance
• prose
• stanza
• rhyme scheme
• persona
• irony
• end-stopped line
• run-on line
• hyperbole
• poetic license

And be able to define, identify and write the following types or templates for poems:

• life metaphor
• emotion poem modeled after "Guilt" (lyric)
• 5 senses description
• haiku
• tanka
• cinquain
• diamante
• limerick
• free verse
• picture
• concrete