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Webster’s dictionary definition…Webster’s dictionary definition…
Writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm.
Let’s translate…
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ConcentratedConcentrated
Poetry is usually concise and doesn’t take up pages and pages
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ImaginativeImaginative
Poetry is not a factual report. If you do report on something, you must do it in an unusual or compelling way, with language that’s carefully crafted
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Chosen and arrangedChosen and arranged
You choose the words you use in a poem and think hard about why you use them; certain words may flow together better, certain sounds may evoke a particular emotional response.
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EmotionalEmotional
A poem should elicit an emotional response. Anyone can put lines on a page, but few people can elicit an emotional response from a stranger.
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Sound and rhythmSound and rhythm
The flow and music of lines and sentences is what makes a poem a poem
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AlliterationAlliteration
Repetition of initial consonant sounds in several words in a sentence or line of poetry
Used to create musical effects, link related ideas, stress certain words, or mimic specific sounds
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Blank VerseBlank Verse
Unrhymed poetry
Usually iambic pentameter
Captures the natural rhythm of speech
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Catalogue TechniqueCatalogue Technique
It’s nothing more than a list, but used wisely
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Figurative LanguageFigurative Language
Words and expressions not meant to be taken literally.
Appeal to the imagination
Similes
Metaphors
Hyperbole
Personification
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ImageImage
A word that appeals to one or more of the senses
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MeterMeter
A poem’s rhythmical pattern
Foot – a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables (either two or three)
Most common – iambic pentameter
1 stressed, 1 unstressed – 5 feet
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OnomatopoeiaOnomatopoeia
Use of words to imitate the sound they describe
Used to create a musical effect and to reinforce meaning
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RhymeRhyme
Internal rhyme
End rhyme
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BalladBallad
A story told in song form
Words are simple
Has a strong beat
“Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
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EpicsEpics
Long narratives in an elevated style
High born characters that go on adventures
Depict key event in history
Homer’s Iliad, Odyssey
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Free VerseFree Verse
Poetry without a regular rhyme and meter
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HaikuHaiku
Japanese poetic form with three lines that total 17 syllables
1,3 lines have 5 syllables
2 line has 7 syllables
Often about nature, spiritual insight
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LimerickLimerick
One type of humorous poetry
Five lines and a strong rhyme: a-a-b-b-a
Rhyming words sometimes misspelled to create humor
Usually bawdy and involve buckets and girls from Nantucket…
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Lyrical PoetryLyrical Poetry
Short, emotional poems
Most poems of all natures fall into this category.
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Narrative PoetryNarrative Poetry
Tells a story through a storyline or through a dramatized situation
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SonnetSonnet
Lyric poem of 14 lines written in iambic pentameter
PETRARCHAN / ITALIAN
Octave – the first 8 lines that rhyme a-b-b-a, a-b-b-a
Present a problem
Sestet – last 6 lines that rhyme c-d-e, c-d-e
Resolve the problem
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Sonnet cont…Sonnet cont…
ELIZABETHAN / SHAKESPEREAN
Same format as previous sonnet
Rhyme changed to a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g
First 12 lines describe the problem and the final couplet resolves the problem.