1. Literary Types Understanding Sight and Sound
LAP 4: Poetry
Literary Types
Understanding Sight and Sound

2. Technique of Sight
Imagery is the descriptive language that creates a vivid picture in the mind of the reader and appeals to one of the senses.
Imagery uses concrete objects to represent a scene, an emotion or an experience.

3. Techniques of Sound
End rhyme: the most common type of rhyme is the repetition of sounds that occur at the ends of lines.
A rhyme scheme is the pattern of end rhyme designated by assigning a different letter of the alphabet to each line: abab.

4. Sound Devices
Alliteration is the consonant sound repeated at the beginning of several words.
Sally sells sea shells by the sea shore.
Onomatopoeia is the use of words or phrases that sound like things to which they refer.
Repetition can add emphasis to an idea.

5. Types of Poems
Free Verse: poetry that does not rhyme or have a regular meter.
Haiku: a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.
Prose poetry is written like prose, in paragraphs rather than verse, but contains the characteristics of poetry, such as poetic meter, language play, and a focus on images rather than narrative, plot, and character.
Sonnet: a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having ten syllables per line.