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This document provides a basic overview of poetry, including different types of poems, such as lyric poetry (sonnets, elegies, odes), narrative poetry (epic, ballad), and dramatic poetry. It also details poetic elements like imagery, diction, figurative language, tone, and theme.
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Poetry Poetry - Overflow of powerful feelings - Crystallization in language of beauty - Musicality of the imagination - Compact & Condensed - brief and complete; concentrated pure emotions Three kinds/types of Poetry...
Poetry Poetry - Overflow of powerful feelings - Crystallization in language of beauty - Musicality of the imagination - Compact & Condensed - brief and complete; concentrated pure emotions Three kinds/types of Poetry Lyric poetry - Intense poetic compositions telling of a deep emotional experience Kinds of Lyric poetry 1. Sonnet - fourteen-line poem 2. Elegy - poem for the dead 3. Ode - short poem dedicated to somebody or something Narrative poem - Poems that tell a story and which may contain one or more elements of fiction. - There are two subtypes of narrative poetry: Epic and Ballad - Epic - a long narrative poem recounting the heroic adventures of a character displaying superhuman strength - Ballad - short narrative poetry composition usually sung by minstrel Dramatic poetry - Type of poetry which may contain one or more dramatic elements. The most common poem under this type is the dramatic monologue Elements of Poetry - the devices used that characterize a piece of writing as a poem ★ Imagery - Uses sense impressions - Makes an impression or experience more precise and vivid for the reader - Auditory - Hearing - Olfactory - Smell - Tactile - Touch - Visual - Vision - Gustatory - Taste I-edit gamit ang Docs app - Kinesthetic - Motion Gumawa ng mga - Organic pagbabago, Imagery mag-iwan ng mga - Emotion komento at ibahagi sa mga iba pa upang ma-edit nang sabay. ★ Diction - the words the writer chooses to use. : - the words the writer chooses to use. SALAMAT NA LANGlanguage - Uses figurative KUNIN ANG that APP necessitate understanding of the denotation and connotation of words - Denotation of a word applies to the literal or dictionary meaning of the word - Connotation applies to the figurative meaning that the word suggests Figure of Speech Simile - direct comparison, uses “as” and “like” Metaphor- indirect comparison, ex. She’s got a heart of gold Personification - personify an object, ex. The sun kissed me while I was clicking a picture Hyperbole - exaggerated statements Symbol - image of something which stands or represents another. Synecdoche - part of a person, ex. Lend me your ears Pun - words that have multiple meanings, ex. Some bunny loves you (somebody loves you) Allegory - a story with an underlying message, ex. Animal Farm by George Orwell because it uses animals as main characters with human characteristics Innuendo - unpleasant truth, saying something innocent and polite but indirectly hints a rude comment Alliteration - repetition, ex. Clary closed her cluttered clothes closet. Assonance - frequent vowels, ex. The light of the fire is a sight Onomatopoeia - imitation of sound, ex. Bang bang into the room Apostrophe - talking to an object, ex. Twinkle twinkle little star, how i wonder what you are Irony - opposite of the literal meaning, ex. What a beautiful day! (it’s raining lol) Paradox - absurd; contradictory, ex. This is the beginning of the end Euphemism - more pleasant term, ex. Death - passing away Oxymoron - looking for phrases where two words are used together that logically should not ★ Tone - Emotional message of the author towards that art - Mood/ attitude of the poet to his/her subject matter ★ Theme - Big idea; central idea of the poem ★ Rhyme/ rhythm - Obvious component of poetry - Rhythm is the recurrence of specific sounds based on long and short patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables. Gives the poem melodious quality - Meter is the measured pattern or grouping of syllables called metric footing acc. to accent and length - Rhyme is the regular recurrence of similar sounds usually at the end of poetic lines or also within one line. - Rhyme scheme is a poet's deliberate pattern of lines that rhyme with other lines in a poem or a stanza, ex. ABAB/AABB : Patterns or feet of the placement of accent: ❖ Iambic - one unstressed and one stressed syllable ❖ Trochaic - one stressed and one unstressed syllable ❖ Pyrrhic - two unstressed syllables ❖ Spondee - two stressed syllables ❖ Dactyl - one stressed syllable and two unstressed syllables ❖ Anapaest - two unstressed and one stressed syllable Poetic lines are classified according to the number of feet in a line: ❖ Monometer - one foot ❖ Dimeter - two ❖ Trimester - three ❖ Tetrameter - four ❖ Pentameter - five ❖ Hexameter - six ❖ Heptameter - seven ❖ Octameter - eight A group of poetic lines or verses is called a stanza. It may contain one or more poetic lines: ❖ Couplet - two lines ❖ Quatrain- four ❖ Quintet - five ❖ Sestet - six ❖ Septet - seven ❖ Octet - eight :