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Figurative language
using or containing a non-literal sense of a word or words

Simile
a figure of speech that draws a comparison between two different
things, especially a phrase containing the word "like" or "as,"

Metaphor
a figure of speech that draws a comparison between To all the mothers of the world
Happy Mothers Day
Baseball
Baseball is a new world
Baseball is the king of the diamond

Baseball is like power and emotion together

A new Baseball is like the beginning of a new life

Baseball is the new world

Baseball is made like a checkpoint
A spot to start over from

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What is poetry? Literary works written in verse, in particular verse

Figurative language writing of high quality, great beauty, emotional
Simile and Metaphor
Symbol
sincerity or intensity, or profound insight.
Onomatopoeia
Imagery
Sonnet
Free Verse
Apostrophe
Persona
Harlem Renaissance
Pantoum
Haiku and Tanka
About the Author
Pantoum- Typically made up of two rhyming couplets that
were recited or song. Composed of four line stanzas
(quatrains) in which the second and fourth lines of each
stanza serve as the first and third lines of the next stanza.
The last line of a Pantoum is often the same as the first. The
ending stanza repeats the second and fourth lines of the
previous stanza and also repeats the third line of the first
stanza as its second line and the first line of the first stanza
as its fourth.
Line 1
What is Poetry? Line 2

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Line 3 The game will soon be over

Line 4

Line 2
Line 6
Line 4
Line 8

Line 6
Line 3
Line 8 Apostrophe
Line 1 passage in which an absent or imaginary person or an abstract or
inanimate entity is addressed directly
Game Time
The game will soon be over Oh Basketball
Victory is getting closer Don·t you get tired from all the bouncing?
Winning will last forever I am sorry for all the pain I caused you
This will hurt forever If I could have only put in the net
I am sorry for all the sweat I put on you
Victory is getting closer
That·s what the coach told her All the dirt that you part on my hands
This will hurt forever All the dirt that you put on my shirt
Losing is the worst All the pain we bring to each other

That·s what the coach told her Don·t you get tired of all the dirt?
Winning will last forever That appears when you bounce on the floor
Losing is the worst

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First I start with the grains

Wheat, corn
Rye, oats, and barley

Next are the fruits

Apples, pears
Peaches, cranberries
Persona Pineapples, oranges
The speaker/narrator in the poem who may or may not be associated
with the author of the poem

The Life
Waking up 5:30 in the morning
Eating eggs bacon, and toasted wheat bread
I have two kids a boy and a girl
And a beautiful lovely wife

Now its 6:30 am

Time to get to work
The kids are off to school
As my wife checks on her garden

As time goes on
I check on the animals one by one
The cows, the pigs, and the horses
Next I check on the crops

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LO.LI
The love of a girl
Haiku & Tanka The belief of her life now
Haiku - A poem that is usually focused on nature. The poem Which shall last forever?
expresses a single feeling or impression. It contains three lines SHE
that do not rhyme. The syllables are traditionally broken done There goes my baby
so that the first line is five syllables long, the second line is She is a homerun hitter
seven syllables long, and the third/last line is five syllables So fine I can·t believe
long
US
Tanka - A poem that is five lines long. The first and third Today we will live
lines are composed of five syllables and the second, fourth, Tomorrow we will live see
and fifth lines have seven syllables I promise you Kay
Take a breath one at a time
And we live you will see

THAT NIGHT
Today is the day
Sunday is the beginning
Today I will be
Loving everything you do
Forgive me for what I do

Black Arts Movement

A form of poetry that was used to inform people mostly
African Americans that they can be the ones to change things.

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Poets that have been part of the Black Arts Movement is

Shaking My Head
Drip Drop Drip Drop goes the water in the morning Harlem Renaissance:
Drip Drop Drip Drop Dancing around as happy as can be
Goes the water in the afternoon Short skirts, High heels
The craze of people running to work As happy as you and me
The craze of people running home
How many African-Americans do you see? Bobbed hair
Very little A smile that gives a glare
How many whites do you see? Prohibition can·t drink no beer
Lots But they didn·t care
What can we do about it?
Lots
What do we do about it?
Very Little
Drip Drop Drip Drop
What did we achieve?
Drip Drop Drip Drop Imagery
Nothing compared to what I believe used to help describe something using the five senses (site,
smell, taste, touch, and hearing)
Harlem Renaissance (Including Key Writers)
The Harlem renaissance helped to redefine African Americans Summers Day
through writing, poetry, music, dancing, and painting. Key Hanging out after school
writers of this time were Claude McKay and Langston On the hat summer day
Hughes who wrote poetry. Playing basketball
Just to hear the swish

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Goes the birds outside

Feeling the seems of the ball Roar
As I shoot and dribble Goes my stomach before I eat
Zipp
The smell of sweat Goes my sweater as I get ready to leave
As we run up and down

Seeing the ball go through the basket

While playing one on one
The taste of victory
At the end of the game

This is the story

Of a hot summer game
About the author

Onomatopoeia
the formation or use of words that imitate the sound associated with
something

My morning
Beep Beep Beep
Goes the phone as it wakes me up
Blang Bhang
As my mother leaves the house
Goes the water as I get in the shower
Tweet tweet

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All these-All the cursing and running I am able to

Ronald Lashley is a student at Benjamin Banneker Academy See, Hear, and Believe
and plays for the baseball team. This is the first poetry And later on achieve the dreams of these
Chapbook that he has written.

Symbol
something that stands for or represents something else, especially an
object representing an abstraction
Free Verse
Poetry without fixed pattern of meter, rhythm or rhythms, but Round
which instead exhibits its own natural rhythms, sound Maybe orange or white
patterns and principles of form They both are balls
One bounces when it falls
I see here
I sit and look out seeing the blooming trees White with red seams
I hear the wind blowing through the leaves Has a friend called the glove
Then they fall down Enemy called the bat
I see people sitting on the benches talking In this sport you wear a cap
I see kids running around bouncing and throwing basketballs
I mark the day where it is warm and Orange with black seams
The streets are clear You can play all year long
I observe kids dehydrating because of all the
Running they did You can score one for free
I observe the adults talking loud while using Three from the arc
Curses in front of the kids And two inside the arc

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Neither is winning, remember the name

Double A, call me for a pick-up gamec

Sonnet
a short poem with 14 lines, usually ten-syllable rhyming
lines, divided into two, three, or four sections.
There are many rhyming patterns for sonnets, and they are
usually written in iambic pentameter. Rhyme scheme of
ABAB/CDCD/EFEF/GG
Me and Basketball
Don·t worry if we don·t win the jump ball
I·ll get it back; I·ll pick your man·s pockets
Count all my shots taken, I sunk them all
Call me T-Mac from the Houston Rockets

With flicks of the wrist all you hear is swish

If not ill grab the rebound like Yao Ming
Or give a no look and dish an assist
Tally it, because scorings not a thing

Give me the ball because the time will tick

I don·t need a mark in the loss column
And if a pick comes, there·s no need to switch
I have heart, Defense isn·t a problem

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