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Poetry Project

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Poetry

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Poem

Words organized in such a way that there is a pattern of rhythm, rhyme, and/or meaning

Speaker

The voice used by a poet to speak a poem
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BALLAD

LONG POEM, USUALLY FOLK OR LEGEND, RHYMES

CONCRETE

EXPRESSES MEANING THROUGH SHAPE AND WORDS
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FREE VERSE

NO PATTERN MODERN
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LYRIC

SHORT WITH GREAT EMOTIONS
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NARRATIVE

HAVE PLOT STRUCTURE AND TELL STORIES
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SONNET

FOURTEEN LINE LYRIC WRITTEN IN IAMBIC PentAMETER
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ALLITERATION

REPEATED CONSTANANT SOUNDS AT BEGGINING OF MULTIPLE WORDS
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ONOMATOPOEIA

WORDS THAT SOUND LIKE WHAT THEY MEAN
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METAPHOR

DIRECT COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO DISLIKE ITEMS
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PERSONIFICATION

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SMILIE

COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO UNLIKE ITEMS USING LIKE OR AS

ALLUSION

REFERENCE FROM ANOTHER PEICE OF TEXT

CLICHE

AN OVERUSED, BORING EXPRESSION

Connotation

Unspoken, unwritten series of associations made with a particular word

Denotation

Meaning in the dictionary

figurative language

imaginative language that makes a poem rich

hyperbole

deliberate exaggeration to make a poient 

image

picture a poem creates in the reader's mind

imagery

descriptions to appeal to the five senses

literal language

literal meaning of a poem which ignores imagination

mood

the emotion of a poem

Oxymoron

pair of single word opposites placed side by side

paradox

large oxymoron

repetition

deliberately repeated elements to make a point

symbol

something that represents something else

tone

narrators attitude towards the poem or reader

understatement

opposite of a hyperbole

couplet

two lines of poetry that rhyme

octave

eight lines of poetty that have a rhyme scheme

quatrain

four lines of peotry that have a rhyme shceme

sestet

six lines of poetry that have a rhyme scheme

stanza

another word for verse paragraph 

verse paragraph

paragraph of writing in a poem

blank verse

unrhymed iambic pentameter 

iambic pentameter

line of poetry that is ten sylabols in length

refrain

course of a ballad or a repeating set of words or lines

rhyme

when sounds match at the ends of the lines of poetry 

rhyme scheme

pattern of rhyme in a poem, indicated with letters of the alphabet

rhythm

pattern of sound in a poem

THE ENDS

(THAT IS NOT GOODS GRAMMARS)
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