Poetry Units And Forms Of Poetry

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narrative poetry

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poetry that tells a story and has a plot, characters, and setting

example: The Fish

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epic

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long narrative poem about the feats of gods or heroes

example: The Odyssy by Homer

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ballad

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songlike narrative that has short stanzas and a refrain

example: I'm Yours

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dramatic poetry

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tells a story using a character's own thoughts or spoken statements

example: 100 Years by Five For Fighting

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lyric

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a poem that expresses the feelings of a single peaker. Most common type of poem in modern literature.

example: The Scream

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haiku

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verse form with 3 unrhymed lines of 5,7,5 syllables

examples: by Basho
An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.

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tanka

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verse form with 5unrhymed lines of 5,7,5,7,7 syllables

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free verse

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poems that have neither a set pattern of rhythm nor rhyme

example:The Fish

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Shakespearean sonnet

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14 line lyric poem with formal patterns of rhyme, rhythm, and line structure. The lines are grouped into 3 quatrains and a couplet. Rhymes abab cdcd efef gg.

example: My misress' eyes are nothing like the sun.

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villanelle

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19 line form that are grouped into 5 three-line stanzas and a four line stanza. the lines rhyme aba, aba, aba, aba, aba, abaa.

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alliteration

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repetition of a consonant sound at the beginning of nearby words

example: "cloudless climes and starry skies" from she walks in beauty, like the night

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assonance

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repetition of vowel sounds in nearby stressed syllables

example: "pAck your bAgs" line from song, So Good

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consonance

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repetition of consonant sounds in nearby stressed syllables with different vowel sounds

example:"girL teLL me how you feeL" from song, So Good

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hyperbole

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exaggeration for effect

example: "as I drown in my regrets" from song, Words I Never Said

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imagery

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descriptive language that creates vivid impressions

example: the whole poem, my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun

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metaphor

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one thing is spoken about as if it were something else

example: "how could you be so Dr. Evil?" from song, Heartless

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onomatopoeia

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use of words to imitate the actual sound

example: tick tock

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personification

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object, animal, or idea is spoken of as if it were human

example:"Fear is such a weak emotion, that's why I despise it" from song, Words I Never Said

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simile

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comparison of unlike things using words "like" or "as"

example:"How could you be so cold as the winter wind when it breeze" from song, Heartless

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rhyme scheme

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patterns of rhyme at the ends of lines

example: the rhyme scheme in my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun is abab cdcd efef gg

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rhythm

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pattern created by sressed and ustressed syllables of words in sequence

example: the rhyhtm in shall I compare thee to a summer's day has an iambic pentameter rhythm

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allusion

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reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art

example: the song "If Today Was Your Last Day" hints at Robert Frost's poem with the line "take the path less traveled"