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Title: Poetry One of the three major types of literature, the others being prose and drama.


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Poetry-One of the three major types of
literature, the others being prose and drama.
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Elements of Poetry
  • Speaker
  • Every poem has a speaker, or voice, that talks to
    the reader
  • The speaker is not necessarily the poet
  • Can be fictional person, animal, or thing

But believe me, son. I want to be what I used to
be When I was like you. -speaker is a father
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  • Lines and Stanzas
  • A line is a word or row of words that may or may
    not form a complete sentence.
  • A stanza is a group of lines forming a unit.
  • The stanzas in a poem are separated by a space.

Open it. --line Go ahead, it wont
bite. Wellmaybe a little.

Stanza
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  • Rhythm and Meter
  • Rhythm is the pattern of sound created by the
    arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables
    in a line.
  • Rhythm can be regular or irregular
  • Meter is a regular pattern of stressed and
    unstressed syllables, which sets the overall
    rhythm of certain poems.

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  • Rhyme
  • Rhyme is the repetition of the same stressed
    vowel sound and any succeeding sounds in two or
    more words.
  • Internal rhyme occurs within a line of poetry
  • End rhyme occurs at the end of lines.
  • Rhyme scheme is the pattern of the end rhymes.

The golden brooch my mother wore ------ a She
left behind for me to wear ----------- b I have
no thing I treasure more -----------a Yet it is
something I could spare ----------b
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Other Poetry Terms
  • Alliteration is the repetition of consonant
    sounds at the beginning of words, used to
    emphasize words, imitate sounds, and create
    musical effects.
  • Ex Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout
  • Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds
    within a line of poetry
  • ex weak and weary
  • Onomatopoeia is the use of a word or phrase, such
    as hiss, buzz, thud or sizzle that
    imitates or suggests the sound of what it
    describes.

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  • Allusion Reference to a well known person,
    place, event, literary work, or work of art
  • Connotation Meaning beyond the literal deeper
    meaning
  • Couplet A pair of rhyming lines, usually of the
    same length and meter
  • Consonance Repetition of consonant sound in
    words (not just at the beginning of words)
  • Ex Rubbery Blubbery

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  • Denotation A words dictionary meaning,
    independent of other associations that the word
    my have
  • Epitaph The passage that appears on ones
    tombstone
  • Epic A long narrative poem about the deeds of
    gods or heroes. (The Odyssey by Homer is an
    epic poem)
  • Free Verse Poetry not written in a regular
    rhythmical pattern, or meter. It seeks to
    recapture the rhythms of speech, and it the
    dominant form of modern poetry.

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  • Lyric Poem A highly musical verse that expresses
    the observations and feelings of a single speaker
  • Metaphor A figure of speech in which one thing
    is spoken of as though it were something else,
    implying a comparison between the two things
  • Meter A poems rhythmical pattern, determined by
    the number and type of stresses, or beats, in
    each line
  • Narrative Poem A poem that tells a story.

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  • Rhyme Scheme A regular pattern of rhyming words
    in a poem. Indicated by using different letters
    of the alphabet for each new rhyme. For example,
    in an aabb stanza, line 1 rhymes with line 2, and
    line 3 rhymes with line 4.
  • Symbol Anything that stands for or represents
    something else.
  • Personification Figurative language in which a
    nonhuman subject is given human characteristics
  • Ex The moon walks in the night

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  • Sonnet A fourteen-line lyric poem, often written
    in rhymed iambic pentameter
  • An English or Shakespearean, sonnet consists of
    three quatrains (four line stanzas) and a couplet
    (two rhyming lines) usually rhyming abab cdcd
    efef gg. The last two lines usually comment of
    the ideas from the first three stanzas.
  • An Italian, or Petrarchan sonnet, consists of an
    octave (eight line stanza) and a sestet (six-line
    stanza). Often the octave rhymes abbaabba and the
    sestet rhymes cdecde. The octave states a theme
    or asks a question. The sestet comments on or
    answers the question.

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  • Simile A figure of speech in which a comparison
    is made of two unlike things or ideas using the
    words like or as
  • Theme Central message or insight into life,
    revealed through a literary work.
  • Tone Authors attitude toward the subject or
    audience.
  • Hyperbole exaggerating in order to make your
    point stronger. It is not meant to be taken
    literally

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  • Masculine rhyme when one syllable of a word
    rhymes with another word (bend and send, bright
    and light).
  • Feminine or double rhyme when the last two
    syllables of a word rhymes with another word
    (lawful and awful, lighting and fighting).
  • Triple rhyme when the last three syllables of a
    word or line rhyme (victorious and glorious).
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