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Poetry. A form of literature in which language is used differently to create an emotional effect. I. Three Classifications of Poetry:. Lyric: broadest form, tells the poet’s feelings B. Narrative: tells a story C. Dramatic: plays written in poetic form. II. Figurative Language.
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Poetry A form of literature in which language is used differently to create an emotional effect
I. Three Classifications of Poetry: • Lyric: broadest form, tells the poet’s feelings B. Narrative: tells a story C. Dramatic: plays written in poetic form
II. Figurative Language Figurative Language is language used in a different way than it is normally used. There are many different types of figurative language. Here are some:
A. Simile • A comparison of two things using like or as • Example: “Her eyes were as bright as the sun.” or “She ran like the wind.”
B. Metaphor • This is a comparison between two things NOT using like or as. Examples: “Skimming an asphalt sea,” compares the sidewalk to the sea.
C. Personification Giving people traits to something that is not human Example: “The moon was shining sulkily.”
D. Alliteration The repeating of the first consonant sound in words, usually in the same line of poetry Example: “Along the briny beach.”
E. Onomatopoeia Words that imitate sounds Examples: “Clankity Clankity Clankity Clank”
F. Imagery The use of words that create sensory impressions (Do you remember your five senses?) in the reader’s mind. Examples: “The sun was shining on the sea” “The sea was wet as wet could be”
G. Hyperbole an extreme exaggeration Example: “the sea is boiling hot”
H. Idiom words that have a meaning beyond their literal meaning Example: He has the Midas touch.
A. rhythm a pattern in a poem that is created by stressed and unstressed syllables Example: “Hickory dickory doc The mouse ran up the clock” OR “The sun was shining on the sea”
B. meter A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry Examples: iambic (unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable) is most common. Iambic pentameter is five iambs in a line.
C. rhyme 1. End Rhyme: Words with the same sounds at the ends of lines that rhyme 2. Rhyme Scheme: a pattern of rhymes in poetry
D. stanzas “Paragraphs” in poetry.
1. couplet Two lines of poetry set off differently, or a two lined poem.
2. quatrain Four lined poem or a stanza consisting of four lines
3. cinquain Five lined poem or a stanza consisting of five lines
A. Sonnet a fourteen lined poem with a set rhythm and rhyme scheme Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date:Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed,And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:But thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
B. Haiku Japanese form of poetry that focuses on visual imagery. It consists of 3 non-rhyming lines. line 1 - 5 syllables line 2 - 7 syllables line 3 - 5 syllables Against the bright sky stones glow where strong arms placed them to say "Remember."
C. Limerick alimerickisa five-line humorous poem with an AABBA rhyme scheme There was a man named FrankWho invented a new type of tankHe said it would floatJust like a boatWhen they launched it, it sank
D. Acrostic Poem Uses the letters in a topic to create a poem S hines brightly U p in the sky N ice and warm on my skin
E. Free verse Poetry that has no fixed rhythm nor rhyme nor stanza arrangement of length
F. Blank verse Unrhymed iambic pentameter poetry example for Shakespeare’s Hamlet To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?
