Characteristics of Poetry

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Characteristics of Poetry
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• Sensory appeal is words, phrases, or images that
  appeal to your senses.
• Interpretation of poetry is to make sense, or
  assign a meaning to the poem. Interpreting a poem
  requires asking questions like What does this
  mean?, What message do you see?, What is the
  author trying to convey?
• End stopped is when punctuation occurs at the end
  of a line to stop a line of poetry place for a
  pause.

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Figurative vs. literal meaning-

• Literal language refers to facts without any
  exaggerations or alterations of the subject at
  hand.
• Figurative language states the facts with
  comparisons to similar events and some possible
  exaggerations these comparisons and
  exaggerations are known as figures of speech.
• Example Literal language is The ground is dry.
  Figurative language is The ground is thirsty and
  hungry.

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• Inference is the act or process of developing a
  conclusion based solely on what one already
  knows.
• Poetic form consists of the lines and stanzas
  that make up a poem. It is the form of a poem
  that makes it different than prose (ordinary
  writing).
• Stanzas are units of a poem that are written or
  printed as a paragraph equivalent to a verse.
• Lines make up the stanzas that make up a poem.
• Imagery is descriptive language that evokes
  sensory experience. Imagery creates word pictures
  for the reader. These images are created by
  details of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell or
  movement.
• How does the poet use language and form to create
  and emotional response from the reader?

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Literary Elements

• Rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhyming lines in a
  poem or song. It is usually referred to by using
  letters to indicate which lines rhyme. In other
  words, it is the pattern of end rhymes or lines.
• Scansion is a system to mark the metrical
  patterns of a line of poetry.
• A foot is the smallest unit of rhythm in a line
  of poetry. In English-language poetry, a foot is
  typically one accented syllable combined with one
  or two unaccented syllables. There are many
  different types of feet.

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• Symbol is something such as an object, picture,
  written word, sound, or particular mark that
  represents something else by association,
  resemblance, or convention.
• Tone is the writers attitude towards his
  audience or subject.
• Repetition is the repeated use of the same word
  or word pattern used as a rhetorical device.
• Meter is the rhythmical pattern of a poem. It is
  determined by the number and types of stresses,
  or beats, in each line.
• A speaker is someone who expresses in language.

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• Couplet is a pair of rhyming lines, usually of
  the same length or meter.
• Mood is the feeling or atmosphere that a writer
  creates for the reader
• Rhyme is the repetition of sounds at the ends of
  words.
• End rhyme the rhyming of words at the ends of
  lines of poetry- could/would boot/loot.
• Approximate rhyme is words that come close to
  rhyming without copying the exact sound pattern-
  steer/stare, mud/could, and late/light
• Internal rhyme is the rhyming of two or more
  words in the same line, most often in the middle
  and at the end of the line "I am the daughter of
  Earth and Water
• Rhythm is a pattern or beat of stressed and
  unstressed syllables in a line of poetry