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Poetry Terms

Poetry Terms. All the words you will need to seriously analyze some poetry English 9. The Basics – What’s in a Poem. Poetry Writing in verse form A genre of literature, along with prose and drama The measured language of emotion Language as art

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Poetry Terms

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  1. Poetry Terms All the words you will need to seriously analyze some poetry English 9

  2. The Basics – What’s in a Poem • Poetry • Writing in verse form • A genre of literature, along with prose and drama • The measured language of emotion • Language as art • Language in which the form as well as the content is intended to receive attention

  3. Considering Poetry • Think about art • In the realm of visual images, there are some that are only intended to express content. • Writing Equivalent – Product manual, newspaper article

  4. Considering Poetry • Next, there are images that are meant to contain some sort of visual appeal, but they are still primarily focused on is being depicted. • Writing Equivalent – Blogs, news columns, creative nonfiction, some fiction

  5. Considering Poetry • Then we arrive at what is classically referred to as art, yet it’s the type of art that everyone can understand, if not appreciate • Writing Equivalent – Some fiction, narrative poetry

  6. Considering Poetry • Finally, you arrive at abstract art – art that is all about expression, not about information • Writing Equivalent – Lyric poetry, experimental prose

  7. One more thought… • Using math to define poetry… Expression and Creativity Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Narrative Poetry Poetry, Creative writing News, Instructional, Informational writing Technical writing Content and Information

  8. The Basics – What’s in a Poem • Line • A poetry sentence – the words that are on the same horizontal line in a poem • Stanza • A group of lines separated from other groups of lines by a space

  9. How a Poem Does Its Job – Poetic Devices • Rhythm • The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem • The “sound” of a poem • Meter – The arrangement of stressed syllables in a poem • What light / through yon- / der win- / dow breaks

  10. How a Poem Does Its Job – Poetic Devices • Rhyme • When the end or ending syllables of a word make the same sound • Perfect Rhyme • When the exact same noise is repeated • Dog / fog, mister / blister • Imperfect Rhyme • When the sound repeated is “pretty close” to the original sound • Around / down, later / faker

  11. How a Poem Does Its Job – Poetic Devices • Rhyme, continued • Rhyme Scheme – mapping out the rhyme in a poem • The first end sound gets the letter A, the second gets B • I want to buy a car I just don’t have the money I have to walk so far It’s just not even funny • ABAB

  12. How a Poem Does Its Job – Poetic Devices • Consonance • The repeating of consonant sounds • I ran down the main avenue • Assonance • The repeating of vowel sounds • She eats peas and beans • Alliteration • The repeating of sounds at the beginnings of words • She showed the shy sheep

  13. How a Poem Does Its Job – Poetic Devices • Metaphor • To compare two things by saying one is the other • He is a brick wall. She is a dictionary • Simile • To compare two things using the words “like” or “as” • He can eat like a horse. • My Love is like a red, red rose.

  14. How a Poem Does Its Job – Poetic Devices • Personification • To give a non-human thing human characteristics. • The paper stared back at me. • My car groaned in pain. • Hyperbole • To exaggerate something • I could sleep for a month • He cried until he had no more tears.

  15. One More Poetic Device • Allusion • When a poem refers to another story that everyone “should” know • He was breathing like Darth Vader • She held up her trophy like it was Simba on Pride Rock

  16. Types of Poetry • Narrative • Poetry that tells a story or describes something that happens • Lyric • Poetry that expresses feelings or ideas • Epic • Long poems that tell big, important, exciting, action-packed stories • Poetic Forms – There are tons • Haiku, sonnet, ode, elegy, epitaph, sestina, cinquain, limerick, villanelle, tanka, etc.

  17. Poetry’s Most Important PartIf you remember nothing else, remember this • Imagery • Most poems try to create specific pictures through words – what does this poem “show” you? • Imagery is accomplished through sensory language – what words appeal to your five senses? • Poetry tries to express an idea – imagery is how it does that expressing

  18. Analyzing Poetry • Close Reading – Careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of text • Try to notice and explain every possible technique, analysis, interpretation, connection, diction, syntax, and anything else that can be said about the poem • A full close reading of a one-hundred line poem could be thousands and thousands of words long

  19. Analyzing Poetry • TPCASTT • Title – What’s the title about? • Paraphrase – What is the poem’s literal meaning? • Connotation – Implied meaning – think diction, syntax, imagery • Attitude – Tone, mood • Shift – Shifts in tone, mood, structure • Title – What’s the title about now that you analyzed the poem? • Theme

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