Creative Non-Fiction: Third Quarter (Poetry)

Poetry (Tomeldan)

It is like a song, expression of a feeling, an insight, or a discovery

Poetry

It is more magical than prose and deals with heightened aesthetics in language, rhythmic patterns, structures, and word order to make it meaningful

Poetry (Romero & De Los Reyes)

It is a major genre of literature that uses a more concentrated style than other literary forms

Poetry

Most poems incorporate the basic elements of imagery, tone, figurative language, vividness, and precision of words

Concentrated thought, Kind of Word-Music, Expresses all the Senses, Answers our demand for Rhythm, Observation plus Imagination

Five Things to Remember about Poetry

Sense

Revealed through the meaning of words, images, and symbols

Diction

Denotative and Connotative meanings/symbols

Images and Sense Impression

Sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, motion, and emotions

Simile

Comparison between two things of different classes using like or as

Metaphor

A direct comparison of two unlike things

Personification

Gives human attributes to inanimate objects or ideas

Metonymy

Substitute a word that closely relates to a person or a thing

Synecdoche

Uses a part to represent the whole

Hyperbole

Make use of exaggeration

Metonymy

“Everyone should pledge their allegiance to the crown”

Irony

Says the opposite of what is meant

Allusion

Refers to any literary, biblical, historical, mythological, scientific event, character, or place

Antithesis

Involves a contrast or words/ideas

Antithesis

“Love is so short … Forgetting is so long”

Antithesis

“Hope for the best; prepare for the worst”

Paradox

Uses phrases or statement that on surface seems contradictory, but makes some kind of emotional sense

Paradox

“I must be cruel, only to be kind”P

Paradox

“Less is more”

Litotes

Deliberate understatement by negating its opposite

Litotes

“War is not healthy for children and other living things”

Oxymoron

One statement, two contradictory terms

Sound

Result of a combination of elements

Tone Color

Words or sounds create a mood or feeling, through repetition or patterns of sounds

Alliteration

Repetition of similar vowel sounds

Consonance

Repetition of consonant sounds within or at the end of lines.

Rhyme

Repetition of similar sounds, at the ends of words or lines

Anaphora

Repetition of a word or phrases at the beginning of successive clauses or sentences

Anaphora

“I have a dream that one day… I have a dream that my children…”

Rhythm

Alternation of strong and weak elements in the flow of sound and silence

Duple Rhythm

Between two beats; stressed-unstressed

Lambic Meter

Between two beats; unstressed-stressed

Triple Rhythm

Groups of three beats; stressed-unstressed-unstressed

Anapestic Meter

Groups of three beats; two unstressed + stressed

Running/Flowing Rhythm

Continuous, smooth rhythm with evenly flowing beats

Duple Rhythm

“Shall I comPARE thee TO a SUMmer’s DAY?”

Duple Rhythm

“The COW jumped Over the MOON”

Triple Rhythm

“The MORNing was BRIGHT and CALM. As I WAS goING to St. IVES.”

Running/Flowing Rhythm

“The wind in her hair was soft and light.”

Running/Flowing Rhythm

“The river flows swiftly to the sea.”

Common Rhythm (Balanced)

“HUMpty DUMpty SAT on a WALL”

Meter

Structured pattern of stressed (accented) and unstressed (unaccented) syllables in poetry.

Meter

Stress, duration, or number of syllables per line, fixed metrical pattern, of a verse form.

Meter

Quantitative syllabic, accentual, and accentual syllabic.

Rhyme Scheme

Arrangement of rhymes in a stanza.

Rhyme Scheme

Represented by letters, where each letter corresponds to a particular rhyme sound.

True Rhyme

Rhyme that occurs on the words.

Internal Rhyme

Rhyme that occurs within lines.

Off Rhyme (Slant Rhyme)

Not a true rhyme but the sounds are alike.

Structure

Arrangement of words and line to fit together.

Structure

The organization of the parts to form a whole.

Word Order

Natural and unnatural arrangement of words.

Ellipsis

Omitting words for word economy and effect. (…)

Punctuation

Abundance or lack of punctuation marks.

Shape

Contextual and visual design.

Shape

Jumps, omission of spaces, capitalization, lower case.

Descriptive Poem

A type of poem that focuses on detail.

Descriptive Poem

Didactic Poem.

Narrative Poem

A type of poem that tells a story.

Narrative Poem

Epic, Ballad.

Lyric Poem

A type of poem that expresses the feelings and thought of the poet.

Lyric Poem

Ode, Sonnet, Dramatic Monologue.