Free Verse vs Other Poetry

What type of poem is this?

• free verse

• narrative

• lyrical

• humorous

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CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

How can the reader tell this is a free verse poem?

• It uses end rhymes.

• Every line is the same length.

• It uses figurative and sensory language.

• The language and rhythm sound like normal speech.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

What is free verse poetry?

• Poetry with a very strict rhyme scheme or meter

• Poetry with no set rhyme scheme or meter

• A measured pattern of rhythmic accents in a line of verse

• A person, place, or thing

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CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4

A poem that does not have any set rules for rhyme, length of lines, or form. It does use literary devices like repetition or simile.

• Sonnet

• Narrative

• Free verse

• Kenning

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

Poetry without a set rhyme scheme or established meter

• free verse

• syntax

• rhetoric

• semantics

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

Poetry that does not rhyme or have a measurable meter.

• Free Verse

• Stanza

• Tone

• Onomatopoeia

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.4

FREE VERSE is

• A songlike poem

• A poem that tells a story

• A long, long narrative poem about the many deeds of a hero

• A poem without a regular meter or rhyme scheme

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CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

What is a free verse?

• Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech

• A pair of successive rhyming lines, usually of the same length

• A grouping of lines separated from others in a poem

• A rhyme within a single line of verse, when a word from the middle of a line is rhymed with a word at the end of the line

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CCSS.RL.7.4

What is the effect of the short lines in the poem?

• They have no effect on the poem.

• They add unnecessary complexity to the poem.

• They disrupt the flow of the poem.

• They make it sound the speaker is talking to me.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

Which type of text is written in lines and stanzas?

• Poetry

• Informational

• Realistic Fiction

• Autobiographies

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CCSS.RL.11-12.11

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.8.4