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Poetry Guide
Poetry Guide
In groups of 3 answer the following guide based on information provided in class. Every team
member must have the answer in his or her notebook but only one member (chosen by the group)
must upload it to the platform.
Guide:
1. What is Poetry?
Words arranged in a rhythmic pattern with regular accents.
5. What is poetic license and what are the names of the special effect’s poets may use?
A poet is allowed to break rules in order to improve his poem in some way. The effects
they may use are Catalexus, an unstressed syllable omitted from the beginning of an
iambic or anapestic line, and Hypermeter adding an unstressed syllable at the beginning of
a trochaic line.
7.
•Rhymed Couplet:
“Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.”
•Heroic Couplet:
•Tercet, triplet:
But although I give you credit, ’tis with such a heavy mind!”
•Quatrain: