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Poetry Notes
English 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Themes that Stand the Test of Time Poetry Notes | Characteristics of Poetry |
| Poetry | literature in verse form |
| Poems | have Universal Themes |
| Central message or insight into life revealed through a work | Poems use concise, musical, and emotionally charged language to express multiple layers of meaning |
| The focus of poetry is to make a BIG impact, using as FEW words as possible | Word choice, or diction, of an author is immensely important in poetry |
| Figurative Language | |
| Similies | use like or as to compare dissimilar things |
| Metaphors | compares by speaking of one thing as if it is another |
| Personification | gives human traits to nonhuman things |
| Imagery | descriptive language(adjectives) that creates vivid impressions (use of the 5 senses) |
| Sound Devices | Rhythm - the pattern created by stressed and unstressed syllables |
| Meter | the pattern of rhythm |
| Rhyme | the repetition of identical sounds in the last syllables of words |
| Rhyme scheme | the pattern of rhyme at the end of lines |
| Alliteration (initial rhyme) | the repetition of the first consonant sound of words |
| Assonance (vowel rhyme) | the repetition of vowel sounds in words that are close to each other in a poem |
| Consonance | the repetition of consonants within words that are close to each other in a poem |
| Types of Poetry | Narrative - tells a story, and has a plot, characters, and a setting |
| Epic | long narrative about the feats of gods or heroes Example: The Odyssey |
| Ballad | songlike narrative that has short stanzas and a refrain Many songs are ballads...pick your favorite |
| Dramatic | tells a story using a character's own thoughts or spoken statements |
| Soliloquies, dramatic monologues, etc. are forms (Shakespeare loved them!) | |
| Lyric | express the feelings of a single speaker (most common in modern literature) |
| Sonnets (Like the one in the Rhyme Scheme slide) are good examples of Lyrical Poems | |
| Forms of Poetry | Haiku - verse form with three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables |
| Tanka | verse form with five unrhymed lines of five, seven, five, seven, and seven syllables |
| Free Verse | no set pattern of rhythm and rhyme |
| Sonnet | fourteen-line lyric poem with formal patterns of rhyme, rhythm, and line structure - Example under Rhyme Scheme (Shakespeare's Sonnet 116) |
Created by:
Natalie Wibert
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