poetry rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative,...
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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
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
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.