Poetry Terms. Speaker the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem.

16
Poetry Terms

Transcript of Poetry Terms. Speaker the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem.

Page 1: Poetry Terms. Speaker  the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem.

PoetryTerms

Page 2: Poetry Terms. Speaker  the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem.

Speaker

the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem

Page 3: Poetry Terms. Speaker  the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem.

Structured Form

poems whose lines and/or stanzas have a regular repeated pattern

Page 4: Poetry Terms. Speaker  the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem.

Free Verse

poems whose lines and/or stanzas have no regular pattern or rhyme scheme

Page 5: Poetry Terms. Speaker  the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem.

Stanza

a group of lines forming a unit, similar to a paragraph

Ex: How many stanzas? (2)

He threw the ballUp a tree. (1)

It could not fallDown to me. (2)

Page 6: Poetry Terms. Speaker  the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem.

Types of Stanzascouplet – 2 lines per stanzatercet – 3 lines per stanzaquatrain – 4 lines per stanzacinquain – 5 lines per stanzasestet – 6 lines per stanzaseptet – 7 lines per stanzaoctave – 8 lines per stanza

Page 7: Poetry Terms. Speaker  the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem.

Repetitionthe repeating of sounds, words, phrases, lines, or stanzas

Page 8: Poetry Terms. Speaker  the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem.

Refraina repeated passage

Page 9: Poetry Terms. Speaker  the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem.

Rhyming Wordswords that have identical or very similar final sounds

Ex: place/face

hat/mat

Page 10: Poetry Terms. Speaker  the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem.

Rhyme Scheme

the pattern in rhyme which represents identical final sounds in lines or verses

Ex: What is the rhyme scheme? (ABAB)

He threw the ball (A)Up a tree. (B)It could not fall (A)Down to me. (B)

Page 11: Poetry Terms. Speaker  the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem.

Internal Rhymerhyme between a word within the line of poetry and the last word of the same line

Ex: At number four, to waltz no more.

Page 12: Poetry Terms. Speaker  the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem.

Imagerylanguage that creates a sensory impression within the reader’s mind

Page 13: Poetry Terms. Speaker  the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem.

Figurative Language

the use of words, phrases, symbols, and ideas in such a way as to evoke mental images and sense impressions

Page 14: Poetry Terms. Speaker  the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem.

Alliterationthe repetition of sounds at the beginning of words

Ex: The delightfully dainty dinosaurs danced through my dreams. (“d” sound)

Page 15: Poetry Terms. Speaker  the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem.

Assonancethe repetition of vowel sounds

Ex: The goat jumped off the boat and started to float. (“o” sound)

Page 16: Poetry Terms. Speaker  the voice that relates the story or ideas of a poem.

Analogya comparison between things based on parallels or connections between two ideas.

Ex: sox : feet :: gloves : hands

lion : cage :: book : bookcase