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Poetry: Introduction

Meter Iamb: a light syllable followed by a stressed syllable Ex. u / u / u / u / u / The curfew tolls the knell of parting day Trochaic:two light syllables followed by a stressed syllable (think of the sound of a horse’s hooves) Ex. u u / u u / u u / u u / And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold.

Meter cont... Spondaic:The spondaic foot consists of two stressed syllables. / / / / / / heartbreak childhood football Anapestic:a stressed followed by a light syllable / u / u / u /u / u / u "There they are, my fifty men and women."

Meter cont... Dactylic: a stressed syllable followed by two light syllables / u u / u u "Éve, with her basket, was / u u / u u Deep in the bells and grass."

Metric Lines Monometer: one foot Dimeter: two feet Trimeter: three feet Tetrameter: four feet Pentameter: five feet Hexameter: six feet Heptameter: seven feet Octameter: eight feet

Meter Background Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vF0HySkrC4

Rhyme Scheme is the pattern of sequence in which the rhyme occurs. The first sound is represented or designated as a, the second sound is b, and so on. When the first sound is repeated, it is designated as a also. ababa

Literary Devices Alliteration:is the repetition of the initial letter or sound in two or more words in a line of verse Ex.“She sells seashells by the seashore.” Assonance:is a repetition of vowel sounds within words Ex. “Moses supposes his toes are roses.” Connotation:The feelings and associations suggested by a word. Ex. The difference between thrifty (positive) and cheap (negative.)

Literary Devices Denotation:is the strict dictionary meaning of a word Extended Metaphor:a metaphor introduced and then further developed throughout all or part of a literary work, especially a poem—comparison can be made to something else not mentioned in the poem Imagery:The creation of images using words. Ex. In his famous line from “Sonnet 18”, Shakespeare creates an image by comparing love to a “summer’s day.”

Literary Devices: Juxtaposition: is a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters, and their actions are placed side by side, for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. Ex. “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Onomatopoeia:is the use of a word to represent or imitate natural sounds

Poem or Stanza Length Octave: 8 lines Sestet: 6 lines ***Quatrain: 4 lines ***Terset: a group of three lines rhyming together ***Add these to your packet

Types of Poems Concrete:is poetry whose visual appearance matches the topic of the poem Ballad: A poem that tells a story similar to a folktale or legend, which often has a repeated refrain. It is often sung. Villanelle:A 19-line poem consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain of two rhymes. The first and third lines of the first tercet repeat in an alternative fashion as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain.

Sonnets Italian:Italian is a fourteen line stanza form consisting of an octave and a sestet. The rhyme scheme is abbaabba for the octave and either cdecde or cdcdcd for the sestet. The octave makes a statement or states a problem and the sestet is a summary or gives a solution to the problem in the octave. Elizabethan:is a fourteen line stanza form consisting of three quatrains abab cdcd efef and a couplet gg. . The rhyme scheme is quatrains state a problem or statement and the couplet is the turn it gives an ending for that problem or statement.

Types of Poetry Sestina: A poem consisting of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy. The end words of the first stanza are repeated in varied order as end words in the other stanzas and also recur in the envoy.