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Poetry Unit
Poem List & Terms
I. Poem List:
1. Poetry Analysis Model: How do literary elements create meaning in poetry?
 “Oh Captain! My Captain!” – Walt Whitman
2. Sonnets:
 “My City” - James Weldon Johnson
 “Sonnet 18” - William Shakespeare
3. Emily Dickenson:
 “Tell All the Truth, but Tell it Slant”
 “The Wind – Tapped like a Tired Man”
 “After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes”
 “Heart! We Will Forget Him!”
4. Japanese Poetry:
 4 Tankas – “The Clustering Clouds…” “When I went to visit…” “Was it that I went to
sleep…”
 4 Haikus – “An old silent pond….” “Covered with flowers,” “Melodic starlight,”
“Snapping a dry twig”
5. Narrative Poetry:
 “The Ballad of Birmingham” – Dudley Randall
( “Birches” – Robert Frost)
 “Mending Wall” – Robert Frost
 “Fire and Ice” – Robert Frost
 “The Road Less Traveled” – Robert Frost
6. Villanelle
 “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” – Dylan Thomas
II. Poetry Terms to Know:
Types of Poetry
1. Sonnet— A
and is usually written in
English, or
form of
poetry, that has
. Two styles:
and Petrarchan (Italian), also known as
lines,
2. Shakespearean Sonnet— Has three
(4 lines), and a
(2 lines). General rhyme scheme is:
3. Modern Sonnet— Has an
(8 lines), and a
(six lines). Can have a
rhyme scheme.
4. Tanka— A
of
from of poetry, with a
lines. The 1st and 3rd line have
syllables, the other lines have
5. Haiku— A style of Japanese
poetry that presents an intense
or vivid
insight.
form
meant to lead to
form:
syllables in
lines,
,
,
6. Narrative Poetry— A poem that tells a
and can be
. Can be short or
or
7. Ballad— A
.
told in
. The
are
. Usually very
8. Epic— A
.
narrative poem that
a
Ex:
9. Dramatic Poetry— Any poetry that uses
involved to tell a
or portray a situation. Usually
10. Lyric Poetry— A
poem in which the expression of personal
is more important than any
11. Ode— A long
or
,
and 2
topics, such as
, or the meaning of life. No set
poem setting forth the poet’s
or some
13. Free Verse— Poetry that does
14. Villanelle—A highly
emotions in a
tone. Has
12. Elegy— A
upon
given
poem that expresses
dignified style, or a
truth, art,
of the
thing.
have a
poem with
(repeated lines)
pattern
lines, 2
Poetry Terms
15. Extended Metaphor— A
comparison in which
or all of a poem consists of a
16. Stanza— A
of
of
metaphors.
, or
in varying number, and
usually arranged according to some chosen
forming a
and
of a poem.
17. Ballad Stanza— Has
lines. Lines
and
rhyme
Ex:
18. Couplet—
consecutive lines of poetry that
Ex:
19. Rhyme— Words that have the
Ex:
20. Rhyme Scheme— The
of
which
in
occurs.
Ex:
21. Internal Rhyme— Rhyme that comes from
a
line of poetry
Ex:
22. Rhythm— A
of
or
beats
Ex:
23. Meter— The established
of
and
24. Foot— A
syllables in a line of poetry
of
Ex:
25. Personification— An
had
,
, or idea that is treated as if it
qualities.
Ex:
26. Onomatopoeia— The use of a word whose
Ex:
imitates its
27. Consonance— A repetition of
sounds of words
Ex:
28. Assonance— The
of
sounds.
Ex:
29. Alliteration— The
of
sounds
Ex:
30. Imagery—
or phrases that give a
in the mind
Ex:
31. Figurative Language— Language that is
based on some kind of
that is not
true
Ex:
32. Figure of Speech— Allows a writer to say
and
mean
Ex:
33. Symbol— A
or
that signifies something
than what is
Ex:
34. Hyperbole— An extreme
Ex:
35. Simile— A
things
between two
the words
or
Ex:
36. Metaphor— A
things
Ex:
between two
using the words
or