Poetry
Published on Nov 22, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
Poetry is a type of writing which words are chosen and arranged to create a strong image, message, or feeling through meaning, sound, and rhythm.
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Lines: Lines are rows of words that do not follow the same rules of capitalization and punctuation
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Stanza: lines in a poem are often broken up into Stanzas, or groups of lines set apart by spaces like paragraphs in other texts.
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Rhyme: ending in similar sounds.
Rhyme Schemes: the last words of certain lines follow a clear rhyming pattern.
Figurative Language: in a poets own writing to creat images, draw connections, or provoke emotions for the reader.
Metaphor: is a direct comparison between two things WITHOUT using like or as
Analogy: is an extended comparison between two different things
Personification: using human qualities to describe nonhuman things
Allusion: a reference to another person, place, or text
Symbolism: the use of one object or idea to signify something else
Point of View: Is the position or outlook from which the speaker tells a story or observes something
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Theme: Is a message or universal understanding that the poem explores
Connotation: Are meanings suggested or implied by a word, separate from the dictionary definition
Tone: Refers to the speaker's (or poet) attitude toward the subject of the poem
Mood: the feeling the poet created for the reader
Meter: Is a recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
Repetition: Is the repeating of words or lines in a poem
Alliteration: Is the repetition of an initial consonant sound
Assonance: Is the repetition of a vowel sound
Onomatopoeia: Is the use of words whose meaning is suggested by their sounds
Ballad: A poem that tells a story using 2-4 lines and a refrain, or lines that repeat
Free Verse: A poem that does not follow any set rules of rhythm or rhyme
Haiku: Haiku is, today, a 17-syllable verse form consisting of three metrical units of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.
Limerick: A limerick is a humorous poem consisting of five lines. The first, second, and fifth lines must have seven to ten syllables while rhyming and having the same verbal rhythm. The third and fourth lines only have to have five to seven syllables, and have to rhyme with each other and have the same rhythm.
Lyric poem: A limerick is a form of poetry, especially one in five-line anapestic meter with a strict rhyme scheme (AABBA), which is sometimes obscene with humorous intent. The first, second and fifth lines are usually longer than the third and fourth.
Ode: meaning to sing or chant, and belongs to the long and varied tradition of lyric poetry.
Sonnet: is a poem of an expressive thought or idea made up of 14 lines, each being 10 syllables long. Its rhymes are arranged according to one of the schemes – Italian, where eight lines called an octave consisting of two quatrains which normally open the poem as the question are followed by six lines called a sestet that are the answer, or the more common English which is three quatrains followed by a rhyming couplet.
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