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Title: Poetic Elements and Devices


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Poetic Elements and Devices
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Genres of Poetry
  • Lyric Highly musical, expresses feelings to the
    listener.
  • Narrative A poem that tells a story in verse.
  • Concrete Shape poems. The shape gives it
    meaning.
  • Blank Verse Sounds like the way we speak.
    UNRHYMED IAMBIC PENTAMETER.

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Genres Continued
  • Free Verse No specific rhyme scheme or rhythm
    necessary.

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Poetic Elements
  • Rhyme Repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
  • Rhythm The beats. The way your voice naturally
    stresses certain parts of a line.
  • Stanza A group of lines in a poem considered as
    a unit.

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Elements Continued
  • Imagery a word or phrase that appeals to one of
    the five senses.
  • Metaphors A comparison, one thing is spoken of
    as if it were something else. Ex. Death is the
    long sleep.
  • Similes A comparison, using like or as. Ex.
    Death is like the long sleep.
  • Personification giving human characteristics to
    non-human things.

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Sound Effects
  • Assonance The repetition of vowel sounds.
  • Alliteration Repetition of initial (beginning)
    consonant sounds. Ex. She sells sea shells by
    the seashore.
  • Consonance Repetition of consonant sounds in a
    word of phrase.
  • Onomatopoeia Words that imitate sounds. Ex.
    gurgle, quack, hiss.

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Elements Continued
  • Hyperbole gross exaggeration for effect
    overstatement.
  • Oxymoron contradictory terms brought together
    to express a paradox for strong effect.
  • Ex. Beautiful tyrant, jumbo shrimp

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Elements Continued
  • Euphemism a figure of speech using indirection
    to avoid offensive bluntness, such as deceased
    for dead or remains for corpse.
  • Parable a story designed to suggest a principle,
    illustrate a moral, or answer a question.
  • Paradox a statement that seems to be
    self-contradicting, but in fact, is true.

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Elements Continued
  • Parody a composition that imitates the style of
    another composition normally for comic effect.
  • Heroic couplet two end-stopped iambic
    pentameter lines rhymed aa, bb, cc, with the
    thought usually completed in the two-line unit.
  • Iamb a two-syllable foot with an unaccented
    syllable followed by an accented syllable. The
    iamb is the most common foot in English poetry.

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Elements Continued
  • Internal rhyme rhyme that occurs within a line,
    rather than at the end.
  • Pentameter a line containing five feet.
  • Hexameter a line containing six feet.
  • Sonnet normally a fourteen-line iambic
    pentameter poem with two rhyming couplets at the
    end.
  • Tetrameter a line of four feet.
  • Terza rima a three-line stanza rhymed aba, bcb,
    cdc.
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