Poetry.

Major Genres of Poetry:# Narrative poetry: is a genre of poetry that tells a story.# Epic poetry: recounts, in a continuous narrative, the life and works of a heroic or mythological person.# Dramatic poetry: is drama written in verse to be spoken or sung.# Lyric poetry: does not attempt to tell a story but instead is of a more personal nature. Rather than depicting characters and actions, it portrays the poet's own feelings, states of mind, and perceptions. # Elegy: is a mournful, melancholy or plaintive poem, especially a lament for the dead or a funeral song.# Prose poetry: is a hybrid genre that shows attributes of both prose and poetry.

Rhyme: * syllabic: a rhyme in which the last syllable of each word sounds the same but does not necessarily contain vowels. (pitter, patter) * imperfect: a rhyme between a stressed and an unstressed syllable. (wing, caring) * oblique (or slant): a rhyme with an imperfect match in sound. (green, fiend; one, thumb) * assonance: matching vowels. (shake, hate) * consonance: matching consonants. (rabies, robbers) * alliteration: matching initial consonants. (short,ship)

Basic Forms of Poetry:Free verse: a form of poetry which refrains from meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. (UNSTRUCTURED)End rhyme: a rhyme in the final syllable of a verse (the most common kind). (STRUCTURED)

Surgeons must be very carefulby Emily Dickinson

Surgeons must be very careful When they take the knife! Underneath their fine incisions Stirs the Culprit - Life!

Poetic Devices:

Allusion A reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art, either directly or by implicationEnd-stopped A feature in poetry where the syntactic unit (phrase, clause, or sentence) corresponds in length to the line.Enjambment The breaking of a syntactic unit (a phrase, clause, or sentence) by the end of a line or between two verses. Imagery The use of expressive or evocative images in poetry, art, literature, or music.Internal Rhyme Also called middle rhyme, a rhyme occurring within the line. Metaphor A rhetorical trope defined as a direct comparison between two or more seemingly unrelated subjects.Rhyme Scheme The pattern established by the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem, generally described by using letters of the alphabet to denote the recurrence of rhyming lines.Rhythm An essential of all poetry, the regular or progressive pattern of recurrent accents in the flow of a poem the rise and fall of stresses on words in the metrical feet.Symbol A symbol is a graphical, written, vocal or physical object which represents another, usually more complex, physical or abstract object, or an object property.Syntax The way in which linguistic elements (words and phrases) are arranged to form grammatical structure.Theme The central idea, topic, or didactic quality of a work.Tone The poet's or persona's attitude in style or expression toward the subject. Tone can also refer to the overall mood of the poem itself.