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Poetry - Coggle Diagram
Poetry
Sound
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Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeic words are words whose sound suggests the sense, for example the term 'buzz', which reproduces the sound bees make when they fly
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Repetition and refrain
Repetition of words can create a musical pattern or can be used to emphasize particular words or concepts. Refrain is a line or a stanza repeated at regular intervals
Rhyme
Rhyme occurs when the last word of two or more lines in a poem end with the same sound and so they form a rhyme scheme, marked by alphabet letters
Types of poems
The Ode
Odes are accompanied by music and dance, they were particularly appreciated during the Romantic Age, they're a formal address to someone and they're used to celebrate or to praise something
The Sonnet
Sonnets can be of two kinds: Italian and English. Italian sonnets are composed of an octave and a sestet rhyming ABBA ABBA CDE CDE. English sonnets are composed of three quatrains and a final couplet rhyming ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
The Ballad
Ballads are narrative poems meant to be accompanied with music. Ballads have short stanzas, are characterized by the use of simple language, by a mix of dialogue and narration, by a question-answer structure and present refrains
The Elegy
Elegies are very old poetic forms written to mourn the death of someone. Elegies are pervaded by a strong sense of sadness and contain deep reflections on human life
Epic poems
Epic poems are anonymous and tell the story of a hero, on whose deeds the life of a nation depends. The action takes place in vast geographic areas and in a remote past, populated by supernatural creatures and pervaded by a sense of magic
Figures of speech
• simile
• metaphor
• personification
• oxymoron
• paradox
• Irony
• litotes
• hyperbole
• synaesthesia
• symbol
• allegory
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