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Title: Free Verse


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Free Verse
  • Poetry that has no rules seeks to capture the
    rhythm of speech

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Narrative
  • A poem that tells a story

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Lyric
  • Musical quality highly musical verse that
    expresses feelings and observations of a speaker

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Ballad
  • Ballad Poems are poems that tells a story similar
    to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated
    refrain. A ballad is often about love or
    adventure and often sung. A ballad is a story in
    poetic form.

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Epic
  • A long narrative poem about the deeds of gods and
    heroes. Is elevated in style and the poet begins
    by announcing the subject and asking the Muse
    (one of the 9 goddesses of the arts, lit., and
    sciences) to help.
  • Ex The Odyssey

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Sonnet
  • 14 line lyric poem, written in iambic pentameter
  • abab, cdcd, efef, gg
  • Shakespeare

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Haiku
  • Poem containing three unrhymed lines of 5,7,5
    syllables.
  • Japanese form using imagery to convey a single
    vivid emotion

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POETRY TERMS
  • SIMILE a comparison of two unlike things using
    the words like or as
  • METAPHOR a comparison of two unlike things,
    usually using the word is

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POETRY TERMS
  • PERSONIFICATION giving human qualities to
    non-human things

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POETRY TERMS
  • IMAGERY words used to evoke the readers
    senses helps the reader see, hear, touch, smell,
    and taste what is being described

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POETRY TERMS
  • HYPERBOLE a deliberate exaggeration or
    overstatement
  • "I nearly died laughing."
  • "He is as big as a house!"
  • "I heard that a million times."
  • "I will die if no one asks me to dance."
  • "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse."
  • "She has a brain the size of a pinhead."
  • "I told you a million times not to exaggerate."

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Paradox
  • A statement that seems contradictory but actually
    may be true. Because a paradox is surprising, it
    catches the readers attention.
  • Ex When we live no more, we live forever.

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Poetry Terms
  • SYMBOLISM words or images that stand or
    represent something else

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POETRY TERMS
  • ALLITERATION repetition of consonant sounds
    at the beginning of words
  • ONOMATOPOEIA use of words that imitate the
    sound they make

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Sound Devices
  • Assonance- repetition of vowel sounds followed by
    different consonants in 2 or more stressed
    syllables.
  • Ex in The Raven weak and weary

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Sound Devices
  • Consonance- repetition of final consonant sounds
    in stressed syllables with different vowel
    sounds, as in hat and sit.

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POETRY TERMS
  • ALLUSION when a poem makes reference to a
    well-known person, place, event or text.

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Sound Devices
  • Rhythm- the pattern of beats, or stresses, in
    spoken or written language.

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Rhythm
  • The pattern of beats, or stresses in spoken or
    written language. Some poems have a very specific
    pattern, or meter, whereas prose and free verse
    use the internal rhythms of everyday speech.

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POETRY TERMS
  • RHYME repetition of sounds at the end of words
  • RHYME SCHEME a regular pattern of rhyming words
    in a poem

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Types of Rhyme
  • End Rhyme- occurs when the rhyming words come at
    the end of the lines
  • Internal Rhyme- occurs when the rhyming words
    appear in the same line
  • Once upon a midnight, dreary while I pondered,
    weak and weary.

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Slant Rhyme/Near Rhyme
  • Involves the repetition of words that sound alike
    but do not rhyme EXACTLY.
  • Ex grove/love

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  • Meter-rhythmical pattern determined by the
    stressed and unstressed beats in each line
  • Iamb-a foot with one unstressed syllable followed
    by a stressed syllable ex a/gain

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Feet/Meter
  • Broken up by syllables
  • I/ wan/dered/ lone/ ly/ as/ a/ cloud
  • Broken up by feet
  • That floats/ on high/ oer vales/ and hills.

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Iambic Pentameter
  • Shakespeare wrote in iambic pentameter.
  • 5 iambs (unstressed/stressed syllable) per line

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  • Stanza- a formal division of lines in a poem,
    considered a unit
  • Couplet- a two-line stanza, usually they have end
    rhyme
  • Quatrain- 4 line stanza
  • Fixed form- the poem has a set pattern

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  • Connotation- connotation of the word is the set
    of ideas associated with it in addition to its
    explicit meaning
  • Denotation- dictionary meaning
  • Assonance-repetition of vowel sounds followed by
    different consonant sounds in 2 or more stressed
    syllables
  • Ex weak and weary

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ORIGINAL POEMS
  • Write an original poem with the following rhyme
    scheme
  • abab ccdd efef gghh
  • Include the following
  • -1 hyperbole
  • -1 simile
  • -1 metaphor
  • -4 pictures of images created in your poem

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POETRY TERMS
  • METONYMY a figure of speech in which one word
    is substituted for another with which it is
    closely associated

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METONYMY
  • EXAMPLES
  • Washington used to represent the United States
    Government
  • Skirts used to refer to women
  • the pen is mightier than the sword meaning
    writing is more powerful than warfare
  • these lands belong to the crown crown
    king/the land ruled by the king
  • the sails crossed the ocean sails ships

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POETRY TERMS
  • SYNECDOCHE a metaphor in which a part is used to
    stand for a whole (or the whole is used to
    designate the part)

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SYNECDOCHE
  • EXAMPLES
  • The U.S. won three gold medals (U.S. members
    of the US team)
  • I got a new set of wheels (set of wheels a new
    car)
  • Use your head (head brain)
  • Those are nice threads (threads clothes)
  • All hands on deck (hands men, sailors)

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POETRY TERMS
  • CONCEIT a metaphor comparing two things that
    are VERY different, that is usually extended
    throughout an entire poem

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CONCEIT
  • EXAMPLES
  • Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day
    Shakespeare
  • the moon is a football, kicked around in the sky
  • pigeons as businessmen
  • leaves as disco dancers
  • two souls are two bullets
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