What is Poetry and what does it mean to you…..

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What is Poetry?Poetry is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content

Poetic Justice An outcome in which virtue is

rewarded and evil punished, often in an especially appropriate or

ironic manner.

Poetry Is...

Poetry is…. An avenue for authors to use literary techniques to heighten

interest, appeal to an audience, and effectively communicate a message.

A guide that helps readers make connections to better understand themselves and the world around them by reading a variety of texts and genres.

A method where authors use a repertoire of strategies that enable them to vary form, style, and structure in order to write for different purposes, audiences and contexts.

A means of gaining understanding of new words, concepts, and relationships in order to help enhance comprehension of oral and written communication.

Poetry Was and Still is….. A way to communicate and document one’s history in an

artistic way A means of story telling to gain support and allow for

others to gain a better understanding of one’s journey or one’s point of view without coming right out and just stating what may not be obvious Poetry was and still is an escape method used to get out those things many try to hide

A means of communication from oneself to oneself expressing those things that are inside and allowing them the opportunity to surface in a safe and conducive manner

Poetry Lexicon Meter – the basic

rhythmic structure in verse, composed of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Rhyme scheme - the pattern of rhyming lines (e.g. ABAB, ABBA).

Internal rhyme - a rhyme within the same line of verse (e.g. dreary and weary in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary).

Eye rhyme - two words with similar spelling but different sounds (often used to maintain a rhyme scheme in poetry). Love/remove is an example of an eye rhyme from the prologue of Romeo and Juliet: The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love, And the continuance of their parents’ rage, Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove, Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage.

Biblical allusion - a reference to a character or event from the Bible. (For example, referring to a character as a “Judas” is an allusion to the betrayal of Jesus by Judas Iscariot.)

Poetry Lexicon

Graphical element - capital letters, line length, and word position; also called the shape of the

Allusion - a reference within a literary work to another work of literature, art, or real event. The reference is often brief and implied.

Slant rhyme - an imperfect rhyme that usually has the same end consonant sound by not the same vowel sound; also called a half rhyme (e.g. found and kind, grime and game, ill and shell, dropped and wept).

Mythological allusion - is a direct or indirect

reference to a character or event in mythology (e.g., Shakespeare’s frequent

allusions to Hercules in his plays)

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What Does It mean to YOU….