1. Poetic Devices: Arranging the Words American Literature to 1800s

2. Point of View The author's point of view concentrates on the vantage point of the speaker or the teller of the story or poem. 1st Person 3rd Person 3rd Person Omniscent

3. Line A fundamental part of the perception of poetry Visual distinction from prose Arranged in a series of units that do not correspond to sentences (sometimes) Follow the punctuation when reading

4. Verse One single line of a poem arranged in a metrical pattern Blank verse Free verse

5. Stanza Division of a poem created by arranging the lines into a unit Repeated in the same pattern of meter and rhyme throughout

6. Stanza Forms The names given to describe the number of lines in a stanzaic unit, such as: couplet tercet quatrain quintet sestet septet octave

7. Rhetorical question A question solely for effect, which does not require an answer Usually the answer is obvious Example: O, Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

8. Rhyme Scheme Pattern established by the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem, generally described by using letters of the alphabet to denote the recurrence of the rhyming lines Example: ababbcc

9. Enjambment Continuation of the logical sense, and therefore the grammatical construction, beyond the end of a line of poetry This is often done with the title, which in effect becomes the first line of the poem

10. Form The arangement or method used to convey the content Open Closed Blank Verse Free Verse Couplet Heroic Couplet Quatrain

11. Forms, continued Open: poetic form free from regularity and consistency in elements such as rhyme, line length, and metrical form Closed: poetic form subject to a fixed structure and pattern Blank Verse: unrhymed iambic pantameter Free Verse: lines with no prescrubed pattern or structure Couplet: a pair of lines, usually rhymed; this is the shortest stanza Heroic Couplet: a pair of rhymed lines in iambic pantameter Quatrain: a four line stanza or a grouping of four lines of verse