1. Poetry
Spring 2019

2. Flashcards due Wednesday, March 13th
List 4 Vocab Words
Flashcards due Wednesday, March 13th

3. What is Poetry?
Writing is divided into two categories: poetry and prose. Prose is ordinary writing, like our short stories. Poetry is a type of literature, or artistic writing, that attempts to stir a reader's imagination or emotions. The poet does this by carefully choosing and arranging language for its meaning, sound, and rhythm

5. 1. Stanza
Group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit. A stanza is something like a paragraph – it often expresses a unit of thought.

6. 2. Quatrain
A stanza of four lines.

7. 3. End Rhyme Rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines.
Example: My last defense “defense” and “tense” rhyme
Is the present tense.
It little hurts me know
I shall not go “know” and “go” rhyme

8. 4. Internal Rhyme Rhyme that occurs in the middle of a line.
Example: “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary”

9. 5. Repetition
A word, a phrase, a full sentence, or a poetical line repeated to emphasize its significance in the entire text. When an entire line is repeated, it is called a refrain.

10. 6. Alliteration
Repetition of the same or very similar consonant sounds at the beginning of words that are usually close together in a poem.
Example: While I pondered weak and weary

11. 7. Onomatopoeia
The use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning.
Examples: crackle, pop, fizz, click, zoom, chirp, etc.

12. 8. Personification
A nonhuman thing or quality is given human characteristics.
Example: The avalanche devoured everything standing in its way.

13. 9. Diction
A writer’s or speaker’s choice of words. The connotations of words are an important part of diction.

14. 10. Simile
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things using a word such as like, as, than, or resembles.
Example: His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad.

15. 11. Metaphor
A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without the use of the words like, as, than, or resembles.
Example: The curtain of night fell upon us.

16. 12. Couplet Two consecutive (back to back) lines of poetry that rhyme.
Example:
I do not like green eggs and ham.
I do not like them Sam I am.

17. 13. Meter
Meter is a stressed and unstressed syllabic pattern within the lines of a poem. Stressed syllables tend to be longer, and unstressed shorter. In simple language, meter is a poetic device that serves as a linguistic sound pattern for the lines, as it gives poetry a rhythmical and musical sound.

18. 14. Iamb (pronounced “I am”
A metrical unit consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.
Sounds like BaDUM
Examples: Attain, Describe, Portray, Today

19. 15. Iambic Pentameter A line of poetry consisting of five iambs.
Sounds like BaDUM BaDUM BaDUM BaDUM BaDUM

20. 16. Scansion
Indicating the metrical pattern of a poem. Stressed syllables are marked with a dash above the syllable and unstressed syllables with a “u” shape.