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Poetry!

Published on Nov 28, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

POETRY!

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BALLAD

POEM TELLING A STORY WITH MUSICAL QUALITIES

CONCRETE

A POEM THAT EXPERIMENTS WITH SHAPE

FREE VERSE

MODERN POEM WITH NO CERTAIN PATTERN

LYRIC

SHORT POEMS THAT ARE EMOTIONAL AND INTENSE

NARRATIVE

A POEM THAT TELLS A STORY

SONNET

14 LINE POEM WITH RIGID RHYME SCHEME

ALLITERATION

REPEATING SOUNDS OF CONSONANTS AT THE BEGINNING OF SENTENCES

ONOMATOPOEIA

WORDS THAT SOUND LIKE WHAT THEY MEAN

METAPHOR

COMPARISON OF OPPOSITE THINGS OR ITEMS

PERSONIFICATION

GIVING HUMAN CHARACTERISTICS TO A NON HUMAN

SIMILE

COMPARISON OF TWO THINGS USING "LIKE" OR "AS"

ALLUSION

A REFERENCE OF LITERATURE IN ANOTHER PIECE OF LITERATURE

CLICHE

AN OVERUSED WORD OR PHRASE

CONNOTATION

UNWRITTEN ASSOCIATION WITH A WORD OR PHRASE

DENOTATION

LITERAL MEANING OF A WORD

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

THE IMAGINATIVE LANGUAGE IN LITERATURE THAT MAKES IT RICH

HYPERBOLE

AN EXAGGERATION IN LITERATURE TO MAKE A POINT

IMAGE

A MENTAL PICTURE THE READER CREATES IN THEIR MIND

IMAGERY

USING DESCRIPTIVE LANGUAGE TO CREATE AN IMAGE IN THE READERS MIND

LITERAL LANGUAGE

THE LITERAL MEANING OF THE POEM, IGNORING THE DEEPER MEANING

MOOD

THE FEELING YOU GET FROM READING THE POEM

OXYMORON

PAIR OF OPPOSITE WORDS USED FOR DRAMATIC EFFECT

PARADOX

A LARGE, MEANINGFUL OXYMORON

REPETITION

REPEATED WORDS, PHRASES, OR SOUNDS

SYMBOL

SOMETHING THAT REPRESENTS SOMETHING ELSE

TONE

THE NARRATORS ATTITUDE ABOUT THE POEM OR TOWARDS THE AUDIENCE

UNDERSTATEMENT

ACHIEVES EFFECT THROUGH STATING LESS ; OPPOSITE OF HYPERBOLE

COUPLET

TWO LINES OF POETRY THAT RHYME

OCTAVE

EIGHT LINES OF POETRY WITH A RHYME SCHEME

QUATRAIN

EIGHT LINES OF POETRY WITH A RHYME SCHEME

SESTET

SIX LINES OF POETRY WITH A RHYME SCHEME

VERSE; VERSE PARAGRAPH

A PARAGRAPH OF WRITING IN A POEM

STANZA

ANOTHER WORD FOR VERSE PARAGRAPH

IAMBIC PENTAMETER

A LINE OF POETRY THAT IS TEN SYLLABLES IN LENGTH

BLANK VERSE

AN UNRHYMED IAMBIC PENTAMETER

REFRAIN

CHORUS OF REPEATING SET OF WORDS IN A BALLAD

RHYME

WHEN SOUNDS MATCH AT THE END OF A LINE OR SENTENCE

RHYME SCHEME

PATTERN OF RHYME IN A POEM

RHYTHYM

A PATTERN OF SOUNDS IN A POEM

POEM

WORDS ORGANIZED IN A CERTAIN PATTERN OF RHYTHYM

SPEAKER

THE VOICE USED TO SPEAK A POEM