Poetry

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Poetry

• Literary form that combines the precise meanings
  of words with their emotional associations,
  sounds, rhythms

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Types of Poetry

• Narrative poetry
• Lyric poetry
• Dramatic poetry

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Narrative Poem

• The writer tells a story in verse

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Epic

• Long narrative poem about gods or heroes

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Ballad

• Songlike narrative about an adventure or romance

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Lyric poem

• Expresses authors thoughts and feelings

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Dramatic Poem

• Writer tells a story using a characters own
  thoughts or statements

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Haiku

• Japanese poetic form containing 3 unrhymed lines
  of 5-7-5 syllables uses imagery to convey a
  single vivid emotion

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Sonnet

• 14-line lyric poem with formal patterns of rhyme,
  rhythm line structure

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Figurative Language

• Not meant to be interpreted literally expresses
  ideas or feelings in a fresh way

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Metaphor

• Compares 2 apparently unlike things without using
  like, as, resembles, or than

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Simile

• Compares 2 apparently unlike things by using
  like, as, resembles, or than

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Personification

• Language that attributes human qualities to
  non-human things

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Onomatopoeia

• The use of a word whose sound imitates its meaning

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Imagery

• Descriptive sensory language (related to 1 or
  more of 5 senses)

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Sound Devices

• Assists in achieving a musical quality

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Rhythm

• Pattern created by stressed unstressed
  syllables of words in sequence

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Meter

• Controlled pattern of rhythm

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Rhyme

• Repetition of identical or similar sounds in
  stressed syllables

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Rhyme Scheme

• Pattern of end rhymes

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Free Verse

• No set meter or rhyme scheme

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Alliteration

• Repetition of initial consonant sounds of words

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Assonance

• Repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words ex.
  child of silence

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Consonance

• Repetition of consonants within nearby words in
  which the separating vowels differ ex. live and
  love

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Repetition

• The use of any language element more than once

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Stanza

• Group of consecutive lines in a poem

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Couplet

• 2-line stanzas

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Quatrain

• 4-line stanza