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LETS LEARN ABOUT SOME POETRY!
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• Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of
  the world
• -Percy Bysshe Shelley

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• Organizational Devices in Poetry
• VerseA line of poetry
• CoupletTwo lines of rhymed poetry.
• StanzaAn organizational pattern of verse.
• QuatrainA four line stanza or poem.

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FORM

• Form is the poems structure, or the way the
  words are arranged on the page.
• Lines are group into stanzas, which function like
  paragraphs in prose. Each stanza plays a part
  in conveying the overall message of the poem.

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• Traditional

• Organic

• Characteristics does not follow established
  rules of form
• Does not have a regular pattern of rhythm and may
  not rhyme at all
• May use unconventional spelling, punctuation, and
  grammar
• Forms free verse, concrete poetry

• Characteristics follows fixed rules, such as a
  specified number of lines
• Has a regular pattern of rhythm and/or rhythm
• Forms epic, ode, ballad, sonnet, haiku, limerick

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• Traditional

• Organic

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• (ee cummings A Leaf Falls on Loneliness)

• Surgeons must be very careful
• When they take the knife!
• Underneath their fine incisions
• Stirs the CulpritLife! (Emily Dickinson)

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SONNET (TRADITIONAL)

• Made up of 14 lines, commonly written in iambic
  pentameter. There are two types Petrarchan and
  Shakespearean. A Shakespearean sonnet consists of
  three quatrains and a final couplet. The rhyme
  scheme is abab cdcd efef gg.
• A Petrarchan, or Italian, sonnet rhyme scheme is
  abba abba cde cde. This consists of an octave (8
  lines) and a sestet (6 lines). The octave usually
  introduces a problem and the sestet provides some
  sort of solution.

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POETIC ELEMENTS

• Like music, language has rhythm. The pattern of
  stressed and unstressed syllables in each line
  creates the rhythm. Rhyme can occur at the end
  of the lines as end rhyme or within the lines as
  internal rhyme.
• A regular pattern of rhythm is called a meter. A
  regular pattern of rhyme is called a rhyme
  scheme.

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• Sound device

• Example

• Repetition
• A sound, word, phrase, or line that is repeated
  for emphasis and unity.
• Alliteration
• repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning
  of words
• Assonance
• repetition of vowel sounds in words that dont
  end with the same consonant
• Consonance
• repetition of consonant sounds within and at the
  end of words

• Back off from this poem.
• Back off from this poem.
• Which circle slowly like a silken swish
• deep-eyed and deer in herds
• Whose nest is in a watered shoot

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METER

• To identify the poems meter, you have to break
  each line into smaller units, called feet. A
  foot consists of one stressed syllable and one or
  two unstressed ones. Look at the type and the
  number of feet in each line and combine them to
  define the meter, for example, iambic pentameter.

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• Types of feet
• Iamb (reSIST)- consists of an unstressed followed
  by a stressed syllable
• Trochee (ABsent)- consists of a stressed followed
  by an unstressed syllable
• Spondee (GOAL LINE)- consists of two stressed
  syllables
• Number of feet
• trimeter (3)
• tetrameter (4)
• pentameter (5)

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• That time of year thou mayst in me
  be hold

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IMAGERY AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

• Figurative language communicates meanings beyond
  the literal meaning of words. Simile, metaphor,
  hyperbole, personification, and onomatopoeia are
  some examples.
• Figurative language is more descriptive and
  evokes a stronger emotion.
• Literal He was angry
• Figurative He burned with anger.

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TERMS TO KNOW...

• Simile
• a comparison b/w two unlike things, containing
  the words like or as
• Metaphor
• a comparison b/w two unlike things without like
  or as
• Personification
• a description of an object, an animal, or a
  place in human terms,
• Hyperbole
• an exaggeration for emphasis or humorous effect

• My heart is like singing bird.
• The assignment was a breeze.
• This poem has taken in many victims
• Im so hungry that I could eat a horse.