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Elements Elements of Poetryof PoetryElements Elements of Poetryof Poetry
• Poetry- – one of three types of literature,
others being prose and drama.
– Poetry uses concise, rhythmic, and emotionally charged language.
– The language of poetry emphasizes the re-creation of experiences..
Important Poetic Parts• Stanza
– is a group of lines in a poem, considered as a unit. Types of stanzas include:
– Couplet: 2-line– Quatrain: 4-line– Cinquain: 5-line– Sestet: 6-line
– Octave: 8-line
Types of PoetryNarrative Poem: • possesses the elements of a story like characters, conflicts and plot, but the story is told in verse instead of prose.
Lyric Poem: • a highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker.
Haiku: • a 3 line Japanese verse form. •The 1st& 3rd lines have 5 syllables. •The 2nd line has 7 syllables. •Haikus are usually about nature.
Free/ Blank Verse: •poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern. •Free verse doesn’t necessarily follow any of the rules of poetry.
Concrete Poem: •is a poem whose shape suggests its subject. •The words, punctuation, etc. are arranged to create a visual image.
Limerick: •is a humorous, rhyming, five line poem with a specific meter and rhyme scheme. •The 1st, 2nd, & 5th line rhyme and the 3rd & 4th line rhyme. •Most limericks have the rhyme scheme of aabba.
All Poems do not have to Rhyme
• Ballad: – is a song like poem that tells a story often
dealing with adventure and romance. – The earliest ballads were composed orally;
therefore, many of the stories exist in different versions.
– Many ballads have a refrain• a line or group of lines repeated at
the end of each stanza.
Elements of Poetry• Figurative Language:
– is meant to be interpreted imaginatively.– Simile, metaphor, personification and
imagery• Simile:
– a comparison between two unlike things using “like or as”.
• Metaphor: – compares 2 unlike things. Metaphors say
that one thing IS another.
• Rhyme scheme: – is a regular pattern of rhyming words in a
poem. Lower case letters are used to indicate the pattern.•Ex: aabba
• Repetition: – refers to sound, words, phrases or lines that
are used more than once.
• Assonance: – is the repetition of vowel sounds at the
beginning of words.• Ex: Adam ate a lot of apples
• Personification: – gives human characteristics or qualities
to animals, ideas or lifeless objects.
• Imagery/Sensory language: – appeals to the 5 senses.
• Theme: – is the central idea in the
work. Ex: love, compassion
• Hyperbole: – is exaggeration for effect.
• Allusion: – is a reference to a well-known
person, place, event, or literary work.
• Symbol: – is anything that stands for something
else. – They are usually concrete images
that represent ideas.
Concepts of Sound• Rhyme:
– is the repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
• Near Rhyme: – are words that almost rhyme. – They don’t have the same amount of
syllables– Ex: men--again so--aglow whey--
away
• Alliteration: – is the repetition of consonant sounds
at the beginnings of words. – Ex: Creamy crunchy pimples
• Rhythm: – is the pattern of stresses, or beats in
spoken or written language.
• Onomatopoeia: – is the use of words that imitate
sounds.