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Poetry

Poetry. Terms and Definitions. 2 Types of Poetry. Lyric - Poetry in which the speaker reveals personal thoughts and feelings Narrative - Poetry in which the speaker tells a story. Speaker. like the narrator of a story, the speaker of a poem is the voice that communicates with the reader.

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Poetry

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  1. Poetry Terms and Definitions

  2. 2 Types of Poetry • Lyric- Poetry in which the speaker reveals personal thoughts and feelings • Narrative- Poetry in which the speaker tells a story

  3. Speaker • like the narrator of a story, the speaker of a poem is the voice that communicates with the reader.

  4. Organization • Form- the organizing principle that shapes a poem. • Structure- the poem’s arrangement of words, lines, and images, as well as ideas. • Stanza- A group of lines forming a unit in a poem. The “paragraph” in poetry. • Lines- rows of words that may or may not form sentences • Quatrain- a four-lines stanza • Sestet- A six-line stanza

  5. Rhythm and Meter • Rhythm- the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. A poem’s rhythm may be regular or irregular. • Meter- is the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that can establish the rhythm of a poem.

  6. Rhyme • Definition- the repetition of the same stressed cowl sounds and any succeeding sounds in two or more words. • Internal Rhyme- occurs when two words in the same line rhyme. • End Rhyme- occurs at the end of the lines. • Couplet- two successive rhyming lines • Free Verse- poetry that is not written in formal patterns. • Rhyme Scheme- The pattern of rhymes forms by the rhyme at the end of a line of a poem

  7. Rhyme Scheme

  8. Rhyme Scheme

  9. Key Terms used in Poetry (See your notebook for these terms and definitions) • Imagery- • Simile- • Metaphor- • Extended Metaphor- is a type of metaphor that compares two unlike things at length and in various ways throughout a poem. • Personification- • Sound Devices • Alliteration- • Assonance- • Consonance- • Repetition-

  10. Alliteration vs. Assonance vs. Consonnance

  11. Alliteration vs. Assonance vs. Consonnance

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