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Poetry Notes
Poetry Notes
Poetry Notes
Figurative
Language
Figurative Language
A “Figure of Speech” is always based on
a comparison.
Figurative Language – Expressions
which put aside literal language in favor of
imaginative connections.
Simile
Simile – A comparison between two unlike
things using the words like or as, and
sometimes than and resembled.
True Blue
Assonant Rhyme
Assonant Rhyme - the rhyming of vowels
only.
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Rhythm Meter
Stanza
Structure
Stanza
Stanza - Two or more lines of poetry that
together form one of the divisions of a
poem. The stanzas of a poem are usually
of the same length and follow the same
pattern of meter and rhyme.
Couplet
Couplet - In a poem, a pair of lines that are
the same length and usually rhyme and
form a complete thought.
Heroic Couplet - A stanza composed of two
rhymed lines in iambic pentameter.
Shakespearean sonnets usually end in a
couplet.
Quatrain, Sextain,
Octave
Tercet- A stanza or poem of three lines.
Quatrain - four lines
Quintain- five lines
Sextain- six lines (sometimes sestet)
Septet- seven lines
Octave- eight lines
Refrain
Refrain - A phrase, line, or group of lines
that is repeated throughout a poem,
usually after every stanza.
Types of
Poetry
Free Verse
Free Verse - No Rules! It doesn't have to
rhyme, it doesn't have to be in any sort of
meter, or about anything in particular- just
write what you feel.
Acrostic
Acrostic - A poem in which certain letters of
the lines, usually the first letters, form a
word or message relating to the subject
Waits quietly
On his prey
Living Only
For the next Meal.
Zach Hume Former Student
Concrete
Concrete – Where the poem is arranged to
look like, or suggest something about, its
subject
Diamante
Diamante- a seven line poem, shaped like a
diamond