Poetry 1

What is Poetry?

Poetry is a type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a ________ form

______ - Is a group of lines arranged together like a paragraph

________ - a 4 line stanza

Meter - Is the basic ______ of a poem based on the number of syllables and the pattern of emphasis placed on each syllable. 

Syllabic Meter - Syllabic meter is created when each line of a poem has a certain number of _________ that create a pattern.

Which is not a type of rhyme we covered in class?

• End Rhyme

• Slant Rhyme

• Internal Rhyme

• Outdoor Rhyme

What is the rhyme scheme of the following poem? ("Dreams" by Langston Hughes)

Hold fast to dreams/

For if dreams die/

Life is a broken-winged bird/

That cannot fly./

• ABAB

• AABB

• ABAC

• ABCB

Assonance - Repeated _____ sounds

_______ - A repeated word, sound, phrase, or line in a poem

Consonance - Repeated _________ sounds