Vocabulary

Line: a unit of meaning (1 word, a phrase, or a sentence)

Stanza: lines that are grouped together (usually each has the same number of lines)

Rhyme: The repetition of sounds at the end of lines or with in lines (rhyming pattern)

Rhyme Scheme: The pattern of rhyme in a poem (aabb or abab)

Figurative Language: an elaborate way of expressing yourself in which you don't say exactly what you mean

Simile: a comparison of two unlike things that uses a word of comparison such as "like" or "as" ( a type of figurative language)

Metaphor: compares two unlike things, but does not use a word of comparison such as "like" or "as" (a type of figurative language)

Personification: gives human qualities to non-human things (a type of figurative language)

Poem: a piece of writing often having rhyme or rhythm which then tells a story or describes a feeling

Free Verse: poetry that does not have a regular pattern, rhythm, or rhyme

Literal Language: a way when you express yourself by saying exactly what you man

Characters: the people or animals that act like people in poems that tell a story

Types of Poetry

Free Verse

"After the Sea-Ship" by Walt Whitman

After the Sea-Ship-after the whistling winds;

After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,

Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,

Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship:

Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,

Waves, undulating waves-liquid, uneven, emulous waves,

Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves,

Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking, displaced the surface;

Couplet

I love to dance day and night

I'm going to do it with all my might

Acrostic

Dancing

Do it with feelings and emotions

A show you must put put on

Nobody will notice your mistakes

Continue dancing through it all

Incorporate everything you've learned

Notice the little things

Go win a competition

Haiku

I didn't choose dance

Dance chose me and now I dance

With all that i've learned

Limerick

By: Anonymous

There was a young lady of Lynn,

Who was so uncommonly thin

That when she essayed

To drink lemonade

She slipped through the straw and fell in.

Quatrain

I am going to a show

There I will show all I know

There my dance will be seen

Even from a screen