Poetry

Poetry is:

• a kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figurative language and imagery to appeal to emotion and imagination.

• a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel.

• is a form of written or spoken language that typically exhibits a natural flow of speech and grammatical structure.

Prose is:

• a kind of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figurative language and imagery to appeal to emotion and imagination.

• a story with a fully developed theme but significantly shorter and less elaborate than a novel.

• is a form of written or spoken language that typically exhibits a natural flow of speech and grammatical structure.

Rhythm is

• the musical quality produced by repeated sound patterns, created by beats that repeat

• is the pattern or “beat” in a poem. Syllables are either stressed and unstressed; poets put these words together to create a meter.

• a sentence worded or expressed so as to elicit information.

Rhymes at the end of lines, such as:

They were not quickly cured;

Which had to be endured.

• End rhymes

• Internal rhymes

• Inflected rhymes

• Concave rhymes

Rhymes at the middle of lines, such as:

"I drove myself to the lake

and dove into the water."

• End rhymes

• Internal rhymes

• Inflected rhymes

• Concave rhymes

_________ ____________ is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other

• Rhyme scheme

• Rhyme method

• Rhyme pattern

• Rhyme visualization

_____ ______ is poetry that is free of meter and rhyme scheme. (It has no regular pattern of rhythm or rhyme.)

• Free verse

• Free style

• Free rhyme

• Free rhythm

The following poem is an example of: "So there I am in the navigator seat. And I turn to him and just plain ole ax him. I mean I come right on out with it….. and like my mama say, “Hazel…”

• Dialect

• Diction

• Accent

• Slang

"Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light." is an example of

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary is an example of:

• Repetition

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Onomatopoeia