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What is Poetry? (Rhythm and Meter (Monometer (one foot), Dimeter (two…
What is Poetry?
Stanzas
Couplet (2 lines)
Tercet (3 lines)
Quatrain (4 lines)
Sestet (6 lines)
Cinquain (5 lines)
Sonnet (14 lines)
Paragraph to a poem
Rhyme and Rhyme Scheme
Humpty Dumpty sat on a
wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great
fall
All the king's horses and all the king's
men
Couldn't put Humpty together
again
Correspondence of sound between words or endings of words
Rhythm and Meter
Monometer (one foot)
Dimeter (two feet)
Trimeter (three feet)
Tetrameter (four feet)
Pentameter (five feet)
Hexameter (six feet)
Iamb (one weak then hard syllable)
Trochee (one hard then weak syllable)
Anapaest (two weak then hard syllables)
Dactyl (one hard then two weak syllables)
Spondee (two hard syllables)
Pattern in which a poet chooses to sequence the stressed and unstressed syllables
Alliteration
While I
n
odded,
n
early
n
apping, suddenly there came a tapping...
I have
s
tood
s
till and
s
topped the
s
ound of feet.
Repetition of a particular consonant or a vowel sound
Simile
My heart is
like
singing bird
My heart is
like
an apple-tree
My heart is
like
a rainbow shell
Comparison of two words using like or as
Metaphor
Hope
is
the thing with feathers
Comparison of two words not using like or as
Imagery
Auditory Imagery (hearing)
Gustatory Imagery (tasting)
Olfactory Imagery (smelling)
Tactile Imagery (touching)
Visual Imagery (Seeing)
Act of painting a vivid image of something in the reader's head
Symbolism
Ah Sun-flower! weary of time
Who countest the steps of the Sun
Seeking after the sweet golden clime
Where the traveller's journey is done.
Use of symbols to signify ideas and qualifies by giving them symbolic meanings