Poetry Elements
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- Traditional Verse
- Language arranged in lines, with a regular rhythm and often a definite rhyme scheme.
- Free Verse
- Does away with regular rhythm and rhyme, although it is set in lines and does feature the language of poetry.
- Narrative poetry
- tells a story and has characters setting, and action
- Lyric Poetry
- expresses personal thoughts and feelings
- Dramatic poetry
- presents characters who speak to other characters or to some unidentified listener
- Limerick
- a comic poem written in three long and 2 short lines, rhymed in the pattern: aabba
- Ballad
- a story told in verse and usually meant to be sung
- Repetition
- the repetition of a word to produce an effect in any form of literature
- Rhyme
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the repetition of sounds of words, usually, but not exclusively, at the end of lines of poetry
1. End Rhyme
2. Internal Rhyme - Onomatopoeia
- the use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests the meaning
- Rhythm
- the pattern of stressed and unstressed sounds in a line of poetry
- Alliteration
- the repetition of beginning consonant sounds in a line or in several lines of poetry
- Rhyme scheme
- the pattern of rhymes in a poem
- Assonance
- the repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually close together, in a group of words
- Consonance
- the repetition of consonant sounds within a group of words
- Figurative Language
- any language that is not intended to be interpreted in a strict, literal sense
- Metaphor
- a comparison between two unlike things with the intent of giving added meaning to one of them
- Implied Metaphore
- does not directly state that one thing is another. Instead, implied metaphors suggest comparisons
- Extended metaphor
- a metaphor that is extended through several lines or stanzas of poetry
- Simile
- a comparison between two unlike things, using like or as
- Personification
- a figure of speech in which something nonhuman is given human characteristics
- Idiom
- a figure of speech that is an expression common to a particular language.
- Hyperbole
- an obvious exaggeration for effect
- Imagery
- word "pictures"; a description that appeals to any one or any combination of the five senses
- Diction
- a writer's choice of words or expressions
- Dialect
- a representation of the speech patterns of a particular region or social groups
- refrain
- repetition of a line or phrase that is repeated at regular intervals in a poem or song, usually at the end of a line or stanza
- Poetic license
- liberty taken by a poet in deviating from rule, conventional form, logic, or fact, in order to produce a desired effect
- Inversion
- a reversal of the usual order of words to achieve a certain effect.
- stanza
- a group of lines forming a unit in a poem
- Allusion
- a reference in one work of literature to another work of literature, art, or a historical event
- Connotation
- all the emotions and associations that a word or phrase arouses; the suggested meaning of a word
- Denotation
- literal meaning of a word
- paraphrase
- the act of putting a writing into one's own words
- Symbol
- any object, person, place, or action that has a meaning in itself and that also stands for something larger than itself, such as a quality, an attitude, a belief, or a value
- Tone
- the attitude a writer takes toward his or her subject, characters, and readers
- Parallelism
- the use of phrases, clauses, or sentences that are similar or complementary in meaning or in structure
- Petrarchan Sonnet
- a 14-line lyric poem consisting of two parts: octave and sestet - named for the medieval italian poet Petrarch who wrote a series of sonnets to his love, laura
- Shakespearean Sonnet
- a 14-line lyric poem consisting of 3 quatrains and a conclusion couplet
- Quatrain
- usually, a stanza or poem of four lines; may also be any group of 4 lines unified by a rhyme scheme.
- Couplet
- two consectuvie lines of poetry that rhyme