poetry terms. elements of poetry figurative language: language that is used imaginatively, rather...
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• Poetry Terms
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Elements of Poetry• Figurative language: language that is used
imaginatively, rather than literally, to express ideas or feelings in new ways.
• These figure of speech make comparisons between dissimilar things: Similes use like or as to compare 2 essentially unlike things, as in “She runs like the wind”.
• Metaphors speak of one thing in terms of another, as in “All the world’s a stage.”
• Personification gives human traits to nonhuman things, as in “The ocean snarled and pounded against the shore”
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Poets use sound devices and prosody to achieve a musical quality.
• Rhythm is the pattern created by stressed and unstressed syllables of words in sequence. A pattern of rhythm is called meter.
• Rhyme is the repetition of identical sounds in the last syllables of words. A pattern of rhyme at the ends of lines is a rhyme scheme.
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Poets use sound devices and prosody to achieve a musical quality.
• Alliteration, or initial rhyme, is the repetition of the initial consonant sounds of nearby words, as in the words light and lemon.
• Assonance, the words date and fade. • Consonance is the repetition of
consonants within nearby words in which the preceding vowels differ, as in the words milk and walk.
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Poets use graphic elements to help readers to understand the poem and to strengthen the sound or visual appeal of
the poem. • Punctuation marks such as commas
show the reader where to slow down or pause
• Line length can help determine whether a poem has a flowing sound or a short, choppy sound.
• Word position can show relationships between words and ideas.
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Types of Poetry
• Narrative poems tells a story with a plot, characters, and a setting.
• An epic is a long narrative poem about the feats of gods or heroes.
• A ballard is a songlike narrative with stanzas and a refrain
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Types continued
• Dramatic poetry tells a story using a character’s own thoughts or spoken statements.
• Lyric poems express the feelings of a single speaker. Lyrics are the most common type of poem in modern literature.
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Poems can also be categorized by structure, or form.Poetic structures are defined by patterns of
line and stanza length, rhythm, and rhyme.
• A haiku is a verse form with 3 unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
• Tanka is a verse form with 5 unrhymed lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, and 7 syllables. Both forms use imagery to convey a single vivid emotion.
• Some poems, described as free verse, have neither a set pattern of rhythm nor rhyme.
• A sonnet is a 14-line lyric poem with formal patterns of rhyme, rhythm, and line structure.
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Notes