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Introduction to
Poetic Terminology
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Definit ion of Poetry• Poetry - A type of writing that uses
language to express imaginative and emotional qualities instead of or in addition to meaning.
• Poetry may be written as individual poems or included in other written forms as in dramatic poetry, hymns, or song lyrics.
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Literary Devices Used
in Poetry
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Figurative LanguageFigurative Language is the
use of words outside of their literal or usual meaning to
add beauty or force.
It is characterized by the use of similes and metaphors.
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MetaphorMetaphor is a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things, in which one thing
becomes another without the use of the words like, as, than, or
resembles.
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Example:
Love is a rose.
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SimileSimile is a figure of speech that
makes a comparison between two unlike things, using words such as
like, as, than, or resembles.
Example:
My love is like a red, red rose.- Robert Burns
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OnomatopoeiaOnomatopeia is the use of a word or words whose sound
imitates its meaning.
Examples:crackle, pop, fizz, click, chirp
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PersonificationPersonification is a special kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing is talked about as if it was
human (given human characteristics).
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Example:
This poetry gets bored of being alone,
It wants to go outdoors to chew on the wings,
To fill its commas with the keels of rowboats….
-Hugo Margenat, from”Living Poetry”
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SymbolismSymbolism is when a person, place, thing or idea stands for itself and
for something else.
Example: Use of the bald eagle to represent the
United States.
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Alliteration
Alliteration is the use of similar sounds at the beginning or end of a
word.
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Assonance -
Assonance is the use of similar vowel sounds
within a word.
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Poetic Structures
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Iambic Foot
An iambic foot is an unstressed syllable
followed by a stressed syllable .
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Example:
We could write the rhythm like this:
da DUM
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Meter
Meter is the pattern of rhythm established for a
verse.
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Rhythm
Rhythm is the actual sound that results from a
line of poetry.
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Iambic Pentameter
Iambic Pentameter is a line of poetry with five
iambic feet in a row This is the most common
meter in English poetry.
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Example:We could write the rhythm like this:
da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM
We can notate this with a ˘ mark representing an unstressed syllable and a '/' mark representing a stressed syllable
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Example Continued:The following line from John Keats' Ode to
Autumn is a straightforward example:
˘ / ˘ / ˘ / ˘ / ˘
To swell the gourd, and plump the ha - zel
/shells
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RhymeRhyme is the placement
of identical or similar sounds at the ends of lines or at predictable locations within lines.
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LinesPoetry is separated into lines
on a page. Lines may be based on the number of
metrical feet, or may stress a rhyme pattern at the ends
of lines.
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StanzaStanzas are groups of lines in a poem
which are named by the number of lines included.
• Two lines is a couplet. • Three lines is a triplet or tercet.• Four lines is a quatrain. • Five lines is a quintain or cinquain. • Six lines is a sestet.• Eight lines is an octet.
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Couplet
Couplet is two lines of a poem that are related by either rhyme or structure.
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Rhyme Scheme
Rhyme Scheme is the use rhyme in a pattern as a structural element in a
poem.
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Rhyme schemes are described using letters that correspond
to sets of rhymes.
Example: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, A
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; AAll the king’s horses and all the king’s men, BCouldn’t put Humpty together again. B
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The rhyme scheme for this poem is:
A A B B
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Example Continued:
A told B, AB told C, A“I’ll meet you at the top Bof the coconut tree.” A
“Whee!” said D ATo E F G A“I’ll beat you to the top Bof the coconut tree.” A
Chicka chicka boom boom! CWill there be enough room? CHere comes H DUp the coconut tree A
and I and J Eand tagalong K, EAll on their way Eup the coconut tree. A
-from Chicka, Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martian Jr., and
John Archambault
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Rhyme scheme:
A A B AA A B AC C D AE E E A
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Poetic Forms
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Blank Verse
Blank Verse is poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
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Example: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?
To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd.
From Hamlet
William Shakespeare
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Free Verse
Free Verse is poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
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Example:
excerpt from Song of Myselfby Walt Whitman:
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good
belongs to you.I loaf and invite my soul,I lean and loaf at my ease observing a
spear of summer grass.
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Sonnet
A sonnet is a fourteen line poem that is usually
written in iambic pentameter.
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Shall I compare thee to a summer 's day? (Sonnet 18)
by Will iam Shakespeare
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 wand'rest 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.
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Haiku
Haiku is a popular form of traditional Japanese poetry consists of 17-syllables comprising three metrical lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.
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Example(5) Tree grow-ing old-er
(7) An-cient el-der shad-ing me
(5) Calm, cool, peace-ful day- Mrs. Chi, 2/08
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Acrost ic poetryAcrostic poems use letter patterns to create multiple messages
Example:
When the first letters of lines read downward form a separate phrase or word.
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ExampleEnergetic
Rowdy
Irritating
Clown-Mrs. Chi, 2/08
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Concrete PoetryConcrete Poetry uses word
arrangement, typeface, color or other visual effects to
complement or dramatize the meaning of the words used.
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Example #1:
From Wright Flyer Online
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Example #2:
by Michael P. Garofalo
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Epic PoetryAn Epic Poem is a long story told in verse which tells the great deeds of a hero.
Example: The Odyssey
by Homer
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Narrative PoetryNarrative Poem is a poem
that tells a story.
Example: T’was the Night Before Christmas
by Clement C. Moore
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Verse Fable
Verse Fable is a brief story told in verse that illustrates a moral and features human-like animals, plants, objects, or forces of nature.
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Example:A Boy Cries Wolf
Once there was a foolish boy Whose job it was to guard some sheep In case a hungry wolf might come To pounce upon them in their sleep.
The owners told him: If a wolf Should come, be sure to give a cry So we can come and save the sheep And give that wolf a swift goodbye.
The foolish boy grew bored one night, And cried out Wolf! Wolf! just for jokes, And farmers came from far and wide, But left disgusted by his hoax.
But then at midnight that boy spied A savage wolf about to strike, Wolf! Wolf! he screamed, but no one came And sheep and shepherd died alike.
MORAL: Those who enjoy making fools of others often make fools of themselves.
from the book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary
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Lyric Poetry
Lyric Poetry portrays the poet's own feelings, states
of mind, ideas, and perceptions.
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Example:Where the Sidewalk Ends
There is a place where the sidewalk endsAnd before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,And there the sun burns crimson bright,And there the moon-bird rests from his flightTo cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows blackAnd the dark street winds and bends.Past the pits where the asphalt flowers growWe shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,And watch where the chalk-white arrows goTo the place where the sidewalk ends.
Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,For the children, they mark, and the children, they knowThe place where the sidewalk ends.
by Shel Silverstein