Poetry

and it's ELEMENTS...

Poetry

is a type of literature based on the interplay of words and rhythm. It often employs rhyme and meter (a set of rules governing the number and arrangement of

syllables in each line). In poetry, words are strung together to form sounds, images, and ideas that might be too complex or abstract to describe directly.

Exploring the Genre

• Lyric poetry: Expresses vivid thoghts and feelings.

• Narrative poetry: Tells a story.

• Dramatic poetry: in verse (meaning it possesses a metrical rhythm or rhyme) that is meant to portray a story or situation.

• Musical devices: is a technique for achieving a particular artistic effect. Such as alliteration, onomatopoeia, assonance consonance, meter,repetition, and rhyme.

• Figurative language

Elements of Poetry

RHYTHM is the music made by the statements of the poem, which includes the syllables in the lines. The best method of understanding this is to read the poem

aloud, and understand the stressed and unstressed syllables.

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METER is the basic structural make-up of the poem. Do the syllables match with each other? Every line in the poem must adhere to this structure. A poem is

made up of blocks of lines, which convey a single strand of thought. Within those blocks, a structure of syllables which follow the rhythm has to be included. This

is the meter or the metrical form of poetry.

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STANZA in poetry is defined as a smaller unit or group of lines or a paragraph in a poem. A particular stanza has a specific meter, rhyme scheme, etc. Based on

the number of lines, stanzas are named as couplet (2 lines), Tercet (3 lines), Quatrain (4 lines), Cinquain (5 lines), Sestet (6 lines), Septet (7 lines), Octave (8 lines).

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RHYME A poem may or may not have a rhyme. When you write poetry that has rhyme, it means that the last words or sounds of the lines match with each other

in some form. Rhyme is basically similar sounding words like 'cat' and 'hat', 'close' and 'shows', 'house' and 'mouse', etc. Free verse poetry, though, does not

follow this system.

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RHYME SCHEME As a continuation of rhyme, it is defined as the pattern of rhyme. Either the last words of the first- and second-lines rhyme with each other, or the first and the third, second and the fourth and so on. It is denoted by alphabets like aabb (1st line rhyming with 2nd, 3rd with 4th); abab (1st with 3rd, 2nd with 4th); abba (1st with 4th, 2nd with 3rd), etc.

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THEME is what the poem is all about. The theme of the poem is the central idea that the poet wants to convey. It can be a story, or a thought, or a description of

something or someone; anything that the poem is about.

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SYMBOLISM Often poems will convey ideas and thoughts using symbols. A symbol can stand for many things at one time and leads the reader out of a

systematic and structured method of looking at things. Often a symbol used in the poem will be used to create such an effect.

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IMAGERY is also one of the important elements of a poem. This device is used by the poet for readers to create an image in their imagination. Imagery appeals

to all the five senses. For e.g., when the poet describes, 'the flower is bright red', an image of a red flower is immediately created in the reader's mind.

How is Poetry different than other types of Writing?

• Arranged in Stanzas

• Lots of Figurative Language

​The Types of Rhyme

a. End Rhyme: (the most common form of rhyme) Placing the rhyming sound at the end of a line: O, God of dust and rainbows, help us see That without dust the rainbow would not be (Langston Hughes)

b. Internal Rhyme: Repeating sounds within lines Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak And weary (Edgar Allan Poe’s the Raven)

c. Approximate Rhyme: (very popular among more modern poets) The final rhyming sounds are close, but note exactly the same All of evening softly lit as an astral hall “Father” I observed to heaven, “You are punctual!”

Multiple Choice

What term means the repeating of vowel sounds?

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Personification

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Rhyme scheme

• pattern of rhymes at the ends of the lines of a poem

• a plan to rhyme with words that don't sound alike

• A plot to overthrow the poetry council

• pattern of rhymes at the beginning of a sentence

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When talking about poetry, what is meter?

• the length of the poem

• the "beat" of the poem

• the sound of the poem

• the look of the poem

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Free verse poetry does not have...

• stanzas

• plot or conflict

• rhyming pattern

• serious topic

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Two words that have the same ending sound are called

• rhythm

• repetition

• rhyme

• stanza

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What is the use of words that imitate sounds? (Crash, bang, hiss, splat)

• Sensory Language 

• Hyperbole 

• Figurative Language 

• Onomatopoeia 

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A grouped set of lines in a poem, set apart from others with a space, is called a ________.

• stanza

• refrain

• ballad

• chorus

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The way a poem looks is its ____________.

• Stanza

• Set-up

• Structure

• Sentences

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Poems are arranged in lines. Lines can be ___________.

• A single word

• A sentence

• A part of sentence

• All of the above

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The voice that is talking to us in a poem is referred to as what?

• author

• speaker

• poet

• audience

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The author's or speaker's attitude toward the subject of the poem

• tone

• mood

• simile

• theme

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The ideas and feelings associated with a word (positive, negative, or neutral) is the ________.

• imagery

• metaphor

• connotation

• denotation

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A unified group of lines in poetry.

• Stanza

• Quatrain

• Septet

• Meter

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Can you find the repetition in the poem?

What can I say except, "You're welcome"

For the tides, the sun, the sky

Hey, it's okay, it's okay

You're welcome

I'm just an ordinary demi-guy

• sky/guy

• okay/guy

• you're welcome/you're welcome

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What type of poem is this?

What can I say except, "You're welcome"

For the tides, the sun, the sky

Hey, it's okay, it's okay

You're welcome

I'm just an ordinary demi-guy

• Lyric

• Narrative

• Dramatic

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An emotional feeling or the atmosphere the writer creates in or for the READER

• tone 

• mood

• hyperbole

• symbolism

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An author's word choice 

• diction 

• tone 

• mood

• syntax

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The attitude the writer has toward the theme or topic of a text

• mood

• tone

• symbolism

• structure

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The attitude the poem’s narrator (this may or may not be the actual poet) takes towards a subject or character

• Tone

• Metaphor

• Caesura

• Allusion

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It was July, and the sun
toasted the emerald grass
until it smelled of warmth
and green and life. 
 
It was July, and my heart
soaked up the air warmth 
until it sang of joy
and love and life. 
 
How many stanzas in the poem above?

• This poem has 1 stanza

• This poem has 2 stanzas

• This poem has 4 stanzas

• This poem has 8 stanzas

Multiple Choice

It was July, and the sun
toasted the emerald grass
until it smelled of warmth
and green and life. 
 
It was July, and my heart
soaked up the air warmth 
until it sang of joy
and love and life. 
 
How many lines in the poem above?

• This poem has 1 line

• This poem has 2 lines

• This poem has 4 lines

• This poem has 8 lines

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Using words that have the same

(or very similar)

ending sound

is called

• end rhyme

• rhythm

• onomatopoeia

• alliteration

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a piece of poetry

• stanza

• verse

• refrain

• epic

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a stanza with two lines of verse

• free verse

• couplet

• epic

• refrain

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a verse form of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme

• meter

• lyric

• sonnet

• metaphor

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a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

• elegy

• stanza

• verse

• epic

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poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter

• lyric

• free verse

• mood

• couplet

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a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse

• lyric

• meter

• line

• refrain