Poetry
Published on Nov 22, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
POETRY
- Type of writing in which words are chosen and arranged to create a...
- strong image, message, or feeling through meaning, sound, and rhythm.
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LINES
- Rows of words that don't follow rules of...
- Capitilization and punctuation you see in other writings.
STANZAS
- Groups of lines set apart by spaces.
RHYME
- Lines that ryhme, or end in similar sounds.
RHYME SCHEME
- The last two words of certain lines follow a rhyming pattern.
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
- Use this to create images, draw connections, provoke emotions for reader.
- Often used to compare a person, place, thing, or idea.
SIMILE
- A comparison that uses like or we to show a connection
METAPHOR
- A direct comparison between two things.
- This is without using like or as.
ANALOGY
- An extended comparison between two things.
PERSONIFICATION
- Using human qualities to describe nonhuman things.
ALLUSION
- Reference to another person, place, thing, or text.
SYMBOLISM
- Use of one object or idea to signify something else.
POINT OF VIEW
- Position or outlook from which the speaker tells a story.
- The speaker is the narrator of the story its from their POV
THEME
- Message or universal understanding that a poem explores
TONE
- The speaker's attitude toward the subject of the poem.
MOOD
- However the writer chooses to describe the feel and
- The mood of the characters and their surroundings in the book or poem.
- Or how the reader feels as he/she reads.
METER
- A recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
REPETITION
- Repeating of words or lines in poetry.
ALLITERATION
- The repitition of an initial consonant sound.
ASSONANCE
- The repitition of a vowel sound
ONOMATOPOEIA
- Use of words suggested by sounds
- Ex. Splash, beep, boom, pow.
BALLAD
- Poem that tells a story using stanzas of 2-4 lines.
- And a refrain ir lines that repeat.
FREE VERSE
- Poem that does not follow any set rules or rhythm or rhyme.
HAIKU
- Very short poem with 3 lines and just 17 syllables.
- Dors not rhyme and is usually about nature.
LIMMERICK
- Short poem with five lines and a regular meter and rhyme scheme.
- Usually humorous
LYRIC POEM
- Short poem focused on speaker's thoughts or feelings.
- Often like a song.
ODE
- Poem that includes 2 or more stanzas with similar structures.
- Each line must rhyme with another line in the same stanza.
- Usually a serious poem about a meaningful topic.
SONNET
- A poem that has 14 lines with 10-12 stanzas and similar structures.
- Last 2 or 6 lines question the idea that was throughout the poem.
DENOTATIONS
- Dictionary definitions of a word.
CONNOTATIONS
- Meanings suggested or implied by a word
- Separate from its dictionary definition
