Poetry

Rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts.

In today’s world it would be some musical lyrics

Tone

The feeling and emotion that an author puts into a poem/story through their choice in words

The dark forest reeked of death and terror. The happy chipmunk frolicked through the meadow.

Irony

without using figures of speech, speakers may use this device, saying things that are not to be taken literally, forming a contrast.

verbal irony - contrast between what is said and what is meant. He died a thousand deaths.

dramatic irony - contrast between what is intended and what is accomplished.

Sonnet

A closed, fixed form, fourteen-line poem, predominantly in iambic pentameter A combination of quatrains and a couplet or an octave

and a sestet Think Shakespeare (he wrote 154 and most of them

are well known)

Haiku

3 unrhymed lines, themed around nature 5,7,5 syllables in the lines

Darkness of shadowsNot a sound reverberatesAn eerie silence

Concrete Poem

A poem with a visual component The words take shape to tell an additional meaning to

the poem

Speaker in Poetry

NOT the poet!!!!!!!!

Speaker is just like any narrator in any story you read…. It’s a short story in a way

The narrator is telling you about something A scene A lover A battle

Stanza

a rhythmical unit in which lines of poetry are commonly arranged Visually stops the poem; a “break” in the lines

Rhyme

repetition of identical or similar sounds Upon the morning’s walk

I did unto you talkAbout the rain a fortnight agoAnd how it ever rained so

Rhyme Scheme Varying patterns of rhyme

Last words of lines Vowel sounds

Alliteration

the repetition of initial sounds

Bring me my bow of burning gold

Rhythm

stresses at regular intervals.

Iambic Pentameter “iam”- one unstressed syllable followed by one

stressed syllable. pentameter- 5 “feet”

Free Verse vs. Blank Verse

Free Verse Rhythmical lines varying in length, adhering to no

fixed metrical pattern, and usually unrhymed. Looks random but IS NOT

Onomatopoeia

Words that imitate sounds Hiss Buzz Snap

Imagery

sensory content of poems; appeals to the five senses.

Figurative Language

Comparing two things to each other

Two Kinds of Figurative Language: Similes Metaphors

Simile

items from different classes are compared by a connective Like, as, than

New York is like Chicago

She is like the rose

Metaphor

items from different classes are implicitly compared, WITHOUT a connective

She is the rose, the glory of the day.

Personification

Human characteristics are given to an animal or object

The tree caressed the water…