Where do you find poetry? Consider this: “We drove to the cave in silence. When we arrived, She...
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Where do you find poetry? Consider this: “We drove to the cave in silence. When we arrived, She whispered to the piano player, Then took my hand. We danced. And suddenly, something we had lost was back.”
Where do you find poetry? Consider this: “We drove to the cave in silence. When we arrived, She whispered to the piano player, Then took my hand. We danced
Where do you find poetry? Consider this: We drove to the cave
in silence. When we arrived, She whispered to the piano player,
Then took my hand. We danced. And suddenly, something we had lost
was back.
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Poetry is Everywhere: -Music -Textbooks -Love letters -Plays
Even, Mercedes Benz ads (as the one we just read).
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In order to understand poetry, you have to understand the
devices a poet uses to write his poetry.
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Just as an artist chooses his medium- paint, clay, pencil,
charcoal- so a poet chooses how he will create his work. Poets use
a variety of tools or LITERARY and POETIC DEVICES- to breathe life
and meaning into their words.
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I. Type of Poetry II. Poetry Organization III. Figurative
Language
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1. Elegy: a poem that mourns the death of a person, that is
simply sad and thoughtful. 2. Free Verse: poetry composed of rhymed
or unrhymed lines that have no meter. 3. Fixed Form: various types
of poems that have a prescribed meter and rhyme scheme.
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4. Lyric: a poem, such as an ode or sonnet, that expresses the
thoughts and feelings of the poet. A lyric poem usually resembles
the form of a song. 5. Narrative: a poem that tells a story. 6.
Ode: a lyric that is serious and thoughtful in tone and has a very
precise, formal structure. 7. Sonnet: a formal poem written in
iambic pentameter, of 14 lines, with a rhyme scheme of ABAB, CDCD,
EFEF, GG.
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1. Couplet: two lines of poetry that rhyme. 2. Elision: the
leaving out of a stressed or unstressed syllable or vowel, usually
in order to keep a meter in a line of poetry. Example: oer for over
3. End Rhyme: when the end of lines of poetry rhyme.
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4. Foot: two or more syllables that together make up the
smallest unit of rhythm in poetry. 5. Iambic Pentameter:
Shakespeares plays were written in iambic pentameter, which is the
most common type of meter in English poetry. I has five feet in
each line, each foot having an unstressed, then stressed syllable.
6. Internal Rhyme: when words rhyme within one line of poetry.
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7. Meter: basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in a
verse. 8. Quatrain: a stanza or poem of four lines. 9. Rhyme: the
occurrence of similar sounds at the end of two or more words.
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10. Rhyme Scheme: the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem. It is
usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines
rhyme.For example, abab would mean the first and third lines rhyme,
and the second and fourth lines rhyme. 11. Stanza: two or more
lines of poetry that form the divisions of a poem.
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Meter: Name Order of Stress Number of Syllables Iamb
(Iambic)unstressed, stressed 2 syllables Trochee
(Trochaic)stressed, unstressed 2 syllables Anapest (Anapestic)
unstressed, unstressed, stressed 3 syllables Dactyle (Dactylic)
stressed, unstressed, unstressed 3 syllables Pyric unstressed,
unstressed 2 syllables Iambic example: Shall I | com pare | Trochee
example: By the shores of Gitche Gumee Pyric example: When the
blood creeps and the nerves prick.
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Monometer- One Foot Dimeter- Two Feet Trimeter- Three Feet
Tetrameter- Four Feet Pentameter- Five Feet Hexameter- Six Feet
Heptameter- Seven Feet Octameter- Eight Feet
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Mixed Meter With Iambic Feet From "Intimations of Immortality,"
by William
Wordsworth.........1...............2.................3.....................4......................5
There WAS..|..a TIME..|..when MEAD..|..ow, GROVE,..|..and STREAM
Iambic
Pentameter.........1................2...............3................4.
The EARTH,..|..and EV..|..ry COM..|..mon SIGHT Iambic
Tetrameter.....1..............2 To ME..|..did SEEM Iambic
Dimeter......1..............2.............3...............4 Ap
PAR..|..elled IN..|..cel EST..|..ial LIGHT Iambic
Tetrameter........1..............2.................3................4.................5
The GLOR..|..y AND..|..the FRESH..|..ness OF..|..a DREAM. Iambic
Pentameter
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1. Alliteration: repetition of consonant sounds. 2. Assonance:
repetition of vowel sounds. 3. Author: the individual who wrote a
work of literature.
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4. Connotation: what a word suggests beyond its basic meaning.
Consider the words home and house. Which has a more positive
connotation? 5. Denotation: the dictionary meaning of a word. 6.
Diction: the choice of words or phrases in a piece of writing.
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7. Extended metaphor: a metaphor that is extended for several
lines. (Similar to epic similes). 8. Figurative meaning:
associative or connotative meaning; representational. 9. Hyperbole:
an overstatement.
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10. Imagery: words that paint mental pictures. 11. Irony: the
use of meaning that uses language that usually signifies the
opposite. 12. Literal Meaning: the meaning that an author truly
writes and explains.
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13. Metaphor: a comparison not using like or as. 14. Mood: the
attitude or emotion that a reader receives from a work. 15. Motif:
two contrasting elements in a work of literature, such as light and
dark, death and life.
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16. Onomatopoeia: words that create sounds. 17. Paradox:
statement or situation that contains contradictory or incompatible
elements. 18. Personification: giving human characteristics to
non-human things.
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19. Simile: figure of speech using like or as. 21. Speaker: the
person from whom the point of view is from. 22. Symbol: idea,
object, person, that represents something else.
