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Poem

Published on Nov 20, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

POEM TERMINOLOGY

BY DAMIAN DIPAOLO
Photo by ataferner

POEM

WORDS ORGANIZED IN SUCH A WAY THAT THERE IS A PATTERN

SPEAKER

THE VOICE USED BY A POET TO SPEAK A POEM
Photo by michaelrowe01

BALLAD

CONCRETE POEM

CONCRETE POEM IS WRITTEN ABOUT THIS IMAGE IT LOOKS LIKE

FREE VERSE

MODERN POETRY THAT HAS NO REGULAR PATTERN OF RHYTHEM.

LYRIC

SHORTER POEMS OF INTENSE FEELING AND EMOTION

NARRATIVE

A POEM THAT TELLS A STORY

SONNET

A SONNET

  • A fourteen line lyric poem
  • In iambic pentameter
  • A typical sonnet is written in shakespearian or english sonnet
  • The english sonnet has a rhyme scheme of aba cdcd efef gg
  • And the Italian goes abba abba cdc cdc or abb abba cde cde

ALLITERATION

REPEATED CONSONANT SOUNDS

METAPHOR

A DIRECT COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO DISSIMILAR ITEAMS

PERSONIFIC

A COMPARISON BETWEEN LIVING AND NON LIVING

SIMILE

A COMPARISON BRTWEEN TWO DIFFERNT THING USEING LIKE OR AS

ONOMATOPOEIA

WORDS THAT SOUND LIKE WHAT THEY MEAN

ALLUSION

A REFERENCE IN ONE PIECE TO ANOTHER

CLICHÉ

A PHRASE OR LINE THAT HAS BEEN SO OVERUSED

CONNOTATION

THE UNSPOKEN,UNWRITTEN SERIES OF ASSOCIATIONS OF WORDS

DENOTATION

THE LITERAL MEANING OF THE WORD IN THE DICTIONARY

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

THE IMAGINATIVE LANGUAGE THAT MAKES A POEM RICH

HYPERBOLE

A DELIBERATE EXAGGERATION TO MAKE A POINT

IMAGE

A SINGLE MENTAL PICTURE THAT THE POEM CREATS

IMAGERY

POETS CREAT PICTURES IN THE READERS HEAD

LITERAL MEANING

THE LITERAL MEANING OF THE POEM

MOOD

THE EMOTION OF THE POEM

OXYMORON

IS A PAIR OF SINGLE WORDS OPPOSITES PLACE SIDE BY SIDE

PARDOX

A LARGE OXYMORON

REPITITION

DELIBERATELY REPEATED WORDS

SYMBOL

SOMETHING THAT REPRESENTS SOMETHING ELSE

TONE

THE NARRATORS ATTITUDE TOWARD THE SUBJECT

UNDERSTATMENT

THE OPPOSITE OF A HYPERBOLE

COUPLET

TWO LINES OF POET THAT RHYME

OCTAVE

EIGHT LINES OF POETRY THAT HAVE A RHYME SCHEME

QUATRAIN

FOUR LINES OF POETRY THAT HAVE A RHYME SSCHEME

SESTET

SIX LINES OF POETRY THAT HAVE A RHYME SCHEME

STANZA

ANOTHER WORD FOR VERSE PARAGRAPH

VERSE

A PARAGRAPH OF WRITTING IN A POEM

BLANK VERSE

UNRHYMED IAMBIC PENTAMETER

IAMBIC PENTAMETER

A LINE OF POERTY THAT IS TEN SYLLABLES IN LENGH

REFRAIN

THE CHORUS OF A BALLAD

RHYME

WHEN SOUNDS MATCH

RHYME SCHEME

THE PATTERN OF RHYME

RHYTHEM

A PATTERN OF SOUND

THE END

Photo by TC Morgan