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POETRY
Types of Poetry
Poetic Terms & Techniques
Figurative Language & Sound Devices
WHAT IS POETRY???
 Writing
that can express
feelings and emotions or tell
a story.
 Usually rhymes but doesn’t
have to.
 Often uses figurative
language.
 Written with specific
techniques.
POETIC TERMS
&
TECHNIQUES
STANZA
 Poetry
is not written in
paragraphs.
 Most poems are written
using stanzas.
A paragraph of poetry
separated by spaces.
Couplet
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Two lines of poetry
Triplet
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Quatrain
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Four lines of poetry
Three lines of poetry
Cinquain
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Five lines of poetry
Refrain:
a line of poetry
that is repeated throughout
the poem
Rhyme Scheme: the
pattern of rhyming in a
poem
Repetition: repeating a
word or phrase through
out a poem.
RHYME SCHEME
Roses are red
Violets are blue
You love me
And I love you
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NOW YOU TRY:
A
B
C
B
There once was a Thingamajig—
Like a Whatsis, but three times as big.
When it first came in view
it looked something like you
But it stayed and turned into a pig
FIGURATIVE
LANGUAGE
&
SOUND
DEVICES
Simile
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Comparing two unlike
things using like or as
Personification
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When a writer gives
something that is not
human, human
qualities.
Metaphor
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Comparing unlike things
without using like or as
Extended Metaphor
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When it comes to using
a metaphorical device
in poetry, a poet can
either make the entire
poem a metaphor for
something, or put little
metaphors throughout
the poem.
Hyperbole
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An exaggeration for
the sake of emphasis.
“I’m so hungry I could
eat a horse.”
Euphemism
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Allusion
A writer refers to another piece
of literature
Three Most Common Forms of
Allusion:
 Biblical Allusion – refers to
something in the Bible
 Mythological Allusion – refers
to a god/goddess from
Greek/Roman Mythology
 Shakespearean Allusion –
refers to a piece of
Shakespeare’s writing.
A nice or polite way of
saying something
Instead of he died “He
passed away.” He’s stupid
“He’s slow.”
Symbolism
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A word or image that
signifies something
other than what is
literally represented.
Light can symbolize
truth “Shed light on a
situation-tell the truth”
Onomatopoeia
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a word that sounds like
what it means.
Boom, snap, buzz, pop
Alliteration
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Consonance
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repetitive sounds
produced by consonants
within a sentence or
phrase.
Chuckle, fickle, kick
When a sound is repeated
at the beginning of words
“While I wandered weak
and weary”
Assonance
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the repetition of the
sound of a vowel
Sell, Bell, Smell, Tell
TYPES OF POETRY
FREE VERSE
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Poetry that follows no
rules. Just about
anything goes.
This does not mean that it
uses no devices, it just
means that this
type of poetry does not
follow traditional
conventions such as
punctuation,
capitalization, rhyme
scheme, rhythm and
meter, etc.
Fog
The fog comes on little
cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then,
moves on.
NARRATIVE POETRY
A form of poetry which tells a story and
contains the following elements:
• characters
• setting
• plot
• conflict
• theme
LYRICAL POETRY
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Expresses personal emotions or
feelings
Rhymes and usually set to music
Often about nature
ODE
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a type of lyrical stanza in praise of,
or dedicated to someone or
something which captures the poet's
interest or serves as an inspiration
for the ode.
It is an elaborately structured poem
praising or glorifying an event or
individual, describing nature
intellectually as well as emotionally.
BALLAD
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a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.
•
usually use the common dialect of the people and are
heavily influenced by the region in which they
originate.
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do not have any known author or correct version;
instead, having been passed down mainly by oral
tradition since the Middle Ages, there are many
variations of each.
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In all traditions most ballads are narrative in nature,
with a self-contained story, often concise and rely on
imagery, rather than description, which can be tragic,
historical, romantic or comic.
EPIC
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a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily
concerning a serious subject containing
details of heroic deeds and events
significant to a culture or nation.
Examples: The Iliad, The Odyssey, The
Epic of Beowulf
HAIKU
3 lines
 Originated in Japan
 Syllabic Patter of: 5, 7, 5
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SONNET
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a 14 line poem
Every other line rhymes
3 quatrains (four lines)
Ends with a couplet (2 lines)
Originated in Italy from a
man named Petrarch
The Rhyme Scheme:
abab
cdcd
efef
gg
Each line of the stanza
should have no more and
no less than ten syllables.
SONNET 37
As a decrepit father takes delight
To see his active child do deeds of youth,
So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite,
Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
` For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,
Or any of these all, or all, or more,
Entitled in thy parts do crowned sit,
I make my love engrafted to this store:
So then I am not lame, poor, nor despised,
Whilst that this shadow doth such substance
give
That I in thy abundance am sufficed
And by a part of all thy glory live.
Look, what is best, that best I wish in thee:
This wish I have; then ten times happy me!