poetry terms slide 1
The imaginative response to experience reflecting a keen awareness of language. Types of Poetry
• Ballad – Songlike poem; tells a story • Lyric - musical verse; expresses observations & feelings of a single speaker. • Haiku - 3-line verse form.
First & 3rd lines have five syllables; 2nd has 7.
Topic is always nature
• Limerick – a rhymed nonsense poem of five lines.
Types of Poetry
• Sonnet - 14 line lyric poem (usually unrhymed iambic pentameter)
– Petrarchan (Italian) octave & sestet; octave states a theme or asks a question, sestet comments on or answers the question. – Shakespearean
3 quatrains & a couplet; Usually not printed with the stanzas divided. Verse
• Free Verse – poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter
• Blank Verse – poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter • Refrain – phrase or verse repeated at intervals in a song or poem.
Rhyme
• Rhyme - repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
• Rhyme Scheme – regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
• Internal Rhyme – rhyming words appear within one line.
• End Rhyme – Rhyme at the end of lines. • Rhymed Verse – poetry, stanzas, lines that rhyme
Poetry Terms
• Verse - a single line, poetry, a particular form of poetry, a stanza
• Meter – rhythmical pattern determined by number and types of stresses or beats in a line.
– Monometer (1
–Pentameter (5 foot) feet)
– Dimeter (2 feet)
–Hexameter (6
– Trimeter (3 feet) feet)
– Tetrameter (4
–Heptameter (7 feet) feet)
Poetry Terms
• Rhythm – patterns of beats, or stresses in a poem.
• Foot - two syllables in a line create a foot – Iambic: unstressed, stressed (Again; repeat)
– Anapestic: unstressed, unstressed, stressed (on the beach)
– Trochaic: stressed, unstressed (wonder, older)
– Dactylic: stress, unstressed, unstressed
(wonderful)
– Spondaic: stress, stress (space walk, heartbreak)
Poetry Terms
• Stanza: formal division of lines in a poem (paragraph)
–Couplet (2 lines)
–Triplet (3 lines)
–Quatrain (4 lines)
–Quintet
• Ballad – Songlike poem; tells a story • Lyric - musical verse; expresses observations & feelings of a single speaker. • Haiku - 3-line verse form.
First & 3rd lines have five syllables; 2nd has 7.
Topic is always nature
• Limerick – a rhymed nonsense poem of five lines.
Types of Poetry
• Sonnet - 14 line lyric poem (usually unrhymed iambic pentameter)
– Petrarchan (Italian) octave & sestet; octave states a theme or asks a question, sestet comments on or answers the question. – Shakespearean
3 quatrains & a couplet; Usually not printed with the stanzas divided. Verse
• Free Verse – poetry not written in a regular rhythmical pattern or meter
• Blank Verse – poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter • Refrain – phrase or verse repeated at intervals in a song or poem.
Rhyme
• Rhyme - repetition of sounds at the ends of words.
• Rhyme Scheme – regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem
• Internal Rhyme – rhyming words appear within one line.
• End Rhyme – Rhyme at the end of lines. • Rhymed Verse – poetry, stanzas, lines that rhyme
Poetry Terms
• Verse - a single line, poetry, a particular form of poetry, a stanza
• Meter – rhythmical pattern determined by number and types of stresses or beats in a line.
– Monometer (1
–Pentameter (5 foot) feet)
– Dimeter (2 feet)
–Hexameter (6
– Trimeter (3 feet) feet)
– Tetrameter (4
–Heptameter (7 feet) feet)
Poetry Terms
• Rhythm – patterns of beats, or stresses in a poem.
• Foot - two syllables in a line create a foot – Iambic: unstressed, stressed (Again; repeat)
– Anapestic: unstressed, unstressed, stressed (on the beach)
– Trochaic: stressed, unstressed (wonder, older)
– Dactylic: stress, unstressed, unstressed
(wonderful)
– Spondaic: stress, stress (space walk, heartbreak)
Poetry Terms
• Stanza: formal division of lines in a poem (paragraph)
–Couplet (2 lines)
–Triplet (3 lines)
–Quatrain (4 lines)
–Quintet