~Poetry <3~ Vocabulary~

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Characteristics of poetry
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A)use of regular rhythm and rhyme
B)Use of figurative and musical language
C) Use of more specific and more concrete words
D) Unity and compactness

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Divisions of poetry:

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There are several types of poetry

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Narrative poetry

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tells a story

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Dramatic Poetry

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is poetryin which one or more characters speak

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Lyric Poetry

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Highly musicla verse that expresses the observation and feeling of a single speaker

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Rhymed verse

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containboth rhyme and meter Iwish that my room had a floor. I don't so much care for a door.

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Blank Verse

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Contains no rhyme but a definite phythm pattern. Cowards may die many times before their deaths: The valiantnever tasteof death but once. Of all the wonders that i yet have heard, Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come

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Free Verse

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Contain no rhyme or regylar rhyt hm pattern
Splinter
The voice of the last crickes across the fist frost is one kind of a good-bye, It is so thin a splinter of spring.

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Sonnet

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a lyric poem of fourteen lines, usually following rhyme and rhythm patterns
1. English or Shakespearean
2.Italian or Petrarchan

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Ode

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An elaborate poem characterized by elevation of feeling and style, varying length of line and complexity of form

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Ballad

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A narrative poem often of asingle historical or legendary person: usually made up of four-line stanzas normally have the same rhythm and rhyme scheme through out the whole poem

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Haiku

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a japanese poem which states in three lines of five, seven, and five syllables a clear picture designed to arouse emotion and suggest a specific spiritual insight

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Concrete

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a poem in which the words and lines are written so as to create a picture (literally)or pattern of what actually being written

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Epic

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A long narrative poem about a national hero

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Figures of speech

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expressions in which the words are used to create vivid impressions by setting up comparisons between dissimilar things.

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simile

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a comparison of two unlike subjects using subjects uusing the words like, as, or than

O, my love is like a red, red rose

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Metaphor

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A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken of as though it were something else and does not like or as
But my love she is a kitten,
And my heart'sa ball of string.

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Personification

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a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject
Hog-butcher for the world
Tool-maker, staker of wheat player with railroads and the nations freight-handler;
Stormy,husky,brawling,
City of the brown shoulders

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Hyperbole

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a gross exaggeration for the sake of emphasis: not to be taken literally

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Devices of sound

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used to create word music

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Rhyme

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the repetition of sounds within poems

End rhymes occurs when the rhyming words come at the wnds of lines