Types of Poetry
Narrative Poetry- a narrative poem is one that tells a story. Types of narrative poetry include ballads and epics. Lyric Poetry- a highly musical verse that expresses the emotions of the speaker. Common types are sonnets, odes, free verse and elegies. Dramatic poetry- a dramatic poem is a verse that relies heavily on dramatic elements such as monologue, or dialogue. Two types of dramatic poetry are dramatic monologue and soliloquy.
Whats a Ballad?
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Acrostic poem: The first letters of the lines in an spell a word, often the subject of the poem.
Another very incredibly Intelligent and intuitive Xena type warrior princess teacher with An attitude.
Ok hotshots!
Epic : a long narrative poem centering on a heroic figure who represents the fate of a nation.
Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem of anonymous authorship. In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, battles three antagonists: Grendel, Grendel's mother; and, later in life after becoming a king, an unnamed dragon.
AhObi-wan has taught you well. The force is with you young Skywalker, but you are not a Jedi yet. - Darth Vader
And if a person is to become one with the force.what type of poem shall we write for them hmmmm?
Whats a
Dramatic Monologue? Soliloquy
point in life, addresses a particular audience, which his identifiable but silent. In the course of the monologue, we learn a great deal, often ironically, about the character who is speaking and the circumstance that have led to the speech.
Soliloquy
A form of monologue found most often in
drama. It differs from a dramatic monologue in that the speaker is alone, revealing thoughts and feelings to or for oneself that are intentionally unheard by other characters in Shakespeares plays for example the principal characters reflections on how to act or questions of conscience are revealed in their soliloquies. To be or not to be (Shakespeares Hamlet)
Haiku: a three-line poem usually about nature, with this syllable pattern: 5,7,5. This style originated in Japan.
The old bicycle leaning against the lamp post Will it fall over?
Tanka: a five-line poem usually about emotions with this syllable pattern: 5,7,5,7,7.
The tanka poem is very similar to haiku but tanka poems have more syllables and it uses simile, metaphor and personification. There are five lines in a Tanka poem.
Line one - 5 syllables Line two - 7 syllables Line three - 5 syllable Line four - 7 syllables Line five - 7 syllables Beautiful mountains Rivers with cold, cold water. White cold snow on rocks. Trees over the place with frost. White sparkly snow everywhere.
Tanka poems are written about nature, seasons, love, sadness and other strong emotions. This form of poetry dates back almost 1200 years.
___________ : a
poem of fourteen lines in iambic pentameter.
Stanza: grouping of lines within a poem. Rhyme: repetition of the same sound. Rhyme scheme: a regular pattern of end rhyme in a poem.
Whats a couplet?
Whats a couplet?
Je nais se pas!
I am an ahuacatl of ancient days, Of both past and present ways. I am an aguacate of a familiar green, A nuyorbronxrican Queen. I am an avocado with rough Bronx skin, both Latina and American.
Triplet or tercet: any three lines of poetry, whether as a stanza or as a poem, rhymed or unrhymed, metered or unmetered.
A quatrain is a poem, or a stanza within a poem, that consists always of four lines. It is the most common of all stanza forms in European poetry. The rhyming patterns include aabb, abab, abba, abcb.
Example: aabb (from William Blake, "The Tyger") Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In summertime on Bredon The bells they sound so clear; Round both the shires they ring them In steeples far and near, A happy noise to hear. -A.E. Houseman, Bredon Hill
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Heptastich: seven lines
The flower that smiles today Tomorrow dies; All that we wish to stay Tempts and then flies; What is this worlds delight? Lightning, that mocks the night, Brief even as bright. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mutability
Quick quiz
Sestet: _________________________ Heptastich: ______________________ Octave: _________________________
Rhyme
End
Rhyme- the use of rhyming words at the ends of lines. Internal rhyme: use of rhyming words within lines Slant Rhyme- use of rhyming sounds that are similar but not identical, as in rave and rove or rot and rock. (consonance is a type of slant rhyme).
Alliteration: repetition of initial consonant sounds. Sometimes some students decide to stand instead of sitting, to speak when someone is speaking and simply act silly.
I am an ahuacatl of ancient days, Of both past and present ways. I am an aguacate of a familiar green, A nuyorbronxrican Queen. I am an avocado with rough Bronx skin, both Latina and American Americ .
Ok keep it clean
What is assonance?
Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds among words that begin or end with different consonants.
"Do you like blue?". ue How now brown cow Hear the mellow wedding bells. Edgar Allan Poe, "The Bells"
pattern. Free verse or vers libre, does not. The meter of a poem is its rhythmical pattern. English verse is made of rhythmical units called feet. A foot is made up of weakly stressed () ( and strongly stressed (/) syllables.
two feet three feet four feet five feet six feet
Iambic pentameter: ten syllables with 2nd, 4th 6th, 8th, 10th syllables accented.
Shakespeare
pentameter.
wrote in iambic
Image- language that creates a concrete representation of an object or an experience. Objective correlative- group of images that together create a given emotion in a reader or listener. Figure of speech or trope is an expression that has more than a literal meaning. Hyperbole- an exaggeration made for rhetorical effect. Metaphor- figure of speech in which one t thing is spoken or written about as if it were another. Tenor of the metaphor is the writers actual subject. The vehicle of the metaphor is the other thing to which the subject is compared or likened. Personification and similes are types of metaphor.
thing instead of the name of the thing itself. Ex: The White House for the President, or The Crown for the King. Simile- a comparison using like or as. Synaesthesia- a figure of speech that combines in a single expression images related to two or more different senses. Ex. Singing light. Synecdoche- a figure of speech in which the name of a part of something is used in place of the name of the whole or vice versa. Ex. Hired hands = laborers
Rhetorical techniques
Rhetorical techniques are extraordinary but literal use of language to achieve a particular effect. Antithesis- a rhetorical technique in which words, phrases or ideas are strongly contrasted often by repeating a grammatical structure. Ex; to err is human, to forgive divine. Apostrophe- rhetorical technique in which an object or person is directly addressed. Catalog- a list of people or things Chiasmus- a rhetorical technique in which the order of occurrence of words or phrases is reversed. Ex.: we can weather changes but we cant change the weather. Parallelism- a rhetorical technique in which a writer emphasizes the equal value or weight of two or more ideas by expressing them in the same grammatical form, as in the phrase with hope, with joy, and with love. Repetition- writers conscious reuse of a sound, a word, phrase sentence or other element. Rhetorical question: a question asked for effect but not meant to be answered because the answer is clear from the context.
which abstract ideas, principles human values or states d of mind are personified. The purpose of the allegory is to illustrate the significance of the ideas by dramatizing them. Parable and fable are kinds of allegory in which a moral I illustrated in the form of a story.
Allusion
A reference to a historical event, to Biblical,
mythological or literary characters and incidents with which the reader is assumed to be familiar. Allusion may , with few words, enrich or extend the meaning of a phrase or idea or image, Allusion may also be used for ironic effect. In his poem Out Rober frost expects the reader to recall from Macbeths final soliloquy the line Out out brief candle Such expressions as a Herculean task or Achilles heel are also forms of allusion.
Ambiguity
Denotes uncertainty of meaning. In literature
and especially poetry, we speak of intentional ambiguity, the use of language and images to suggest more than one meaning at the same time.
Connotation
The feelings attitudes images and associations
Denotation
That which a word actually names, identifies,
Figurative Language
The intentional and imaginative use of words
and comparisons that are not literal but that create original, vivid, and often unexpected images and associations .
Hyperbole
An exaggerated expression also called
overstatement, for a particular effect, which may be humorous, satirical, or intensely emotional. Hyperbole is the expression of folktales and legends. Ex. I have mountains of work to do.
Irony
In general a tone or figure of speech in which
there is a discrepancy a striking difference or contradiction between what is expressed and what is meant or expected. Irony maybe used to achieve a powerful effect indir4ectly. In satire, for example it may be used to ridicule or criticize.
Metaphor
Form of analogy or comparison where the
Onomatopoeia
The use of words or phrases that sound like the
things to which they refer. Examples include the words meow, clink, boom, and mumble.
Oxymoron
Related to paradox, oxymoron is a figure of
speech in which two contradictory or sharply contrasting terms are paired fro emphasis or ironic effect. Students favorite examples include jumbo shrimp and army Intelligence. Poets have written of the wise fool Joyful sadness or and eloquent silence.
Paradox
An expression concept of situation whose
literal statement is contradictory , yet which makes a truthful and meaningful observation. Less is more
Satire
A form or style that uses elements of irony,
ridicule, exaggeration , understatement, sarcasm, humor or absurdity to criticize human behavior or a society.
Simile
An expression that is a direct comparison of
two things using words as like a s as if seems and appears. I wandered lonely as a cloud (William Wordsworth
Speaker
The narrative voice in a poem. Also the
Symbol
Anything that stands for or suggests something
else.
Understatement
Expression in which something is presented as
less important or significant than it really is. Understatement is often used for humorous, satiric or ironic effect. He was not without imagination (Mark Twain)
Unit Quiz
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Stanza: grouping of lines within a poem. Rhyme: repetition of the same sound. Rhyme scheme: a regular pattern of end rhyme in a poem. Meter and rhythm: movement and pattern in a poem Iambic pentameter: ten syllables with 2nd, 4th 6th, 8th, 10th syllables accented. Blank verse: unrhymed iambic pentameter. Acrostic poem: The first letters of the lines in an spell a word, often the subject of the poem. Free verse : poetry with no set rhythm or rhyme. Alliteration: repetition of initial consonant sounds. Consonance: same consonant sound
Quiz contd
11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24.
Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds among words that begin or end with different consonants. Internal rhyme: pattern where words within a line rhyme with the one that ends it. Couplet: two lines of poetry that usually rhyme. Triplet or tercet: any three lines of poetry, whether as a stanza or as a poem, rhymed or unrhymed, metered or unmetered. Quatrain: four lines of poetry that usually have a rhyme scheme. Cinquain: a five-line poem, with this syllable pattern 2, 4, 6, 8, 2. Ballad: a narrative poem, sometimes sung, that tells a dramatic story. Epic : a long narrative poem centering on a heroic figure who represents the fate of a nation. Concrete poem is written in a shape that adds meaning to the poem. Elegy: a meditative poem mourning the death of an individual. Dramatic monologue: a poem in which a character addresses an audience. Haiku: a three-line poem usually about nature, with this syllable pattern: 5,7,5. This style originated in Japan. Tanka: a five-line poem usually about emotions with this syllable pattern: 5,7,5,7,7. Lyric: poems that are brief and express a powerful emotion Ode: a meditation or celebration of a specific subject.