1. What is Poetry?

2. The wind inclines the cedars and lets snow riding in bow them swaying weepers on the hedgerows of open fields

3. The cat has his sport and the mouse suffers but the cat is innocent having no image of pain in him

5. Poetry Terms

6. I. Three Forms: A. Narrative poem – tells a story; literary elements apply common forms: ballads, epics B. Dramatic poem – an enactment; like a play C. Lyric poem – reveals thoughts and feelings common forms: haiku, ode, psalm, sonnet, etc.

7. II. Parts of a Poem: A. stanza – acts like a paragraph in prose; can be any length B. couplet – two consecutive rhyming lines expressing a complete thought C. quatrain – four lines that rhyme in different ways – ABCB, ABAB, ABBA, AABB, AAAA D. refrain – section of text repeated at intervals

8. III. Music of Poetry: A. stress – vocal emphasis / intensity given syllables B. meter – pattern of stresses in lines of a poem C. rhythm – how the words fit into the meter D. rhyme – words with the same ending sound E. onomatopoeia – words that sound like what they are F. alliteration – repetition of words with same beginning sound G. assonance – repetition of a vowel sound H. internal rhyme – words that rhyme within a line

9. IV. Figurative Language: personification – giving lifelike qualities to inanimate objects irony – what is said is the opposite of what is implied hyperbole - extreme exaggeration apostrophe – speaking directly to an absent person or object euphemism – understatement by using a softer term simile – comparison using “like” or “as” metaphor – direct comparison without “like” or “as” allusion – reference to something outside the poem

10. Because You Asked about the Line between Prose and Poetry (By Howard Nemerov) Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle That while you watched turned into pieces of snow Riding a gradient invisible From silver aslant to random, white, and slow. There came a moment that you couldn't tell. And then they clearly flew instead of fell.