1. Poetry
Terms and Definitions

2. 2 Types of Poetry
Lyric- Poetry in which the speaker reveals personal thoughts and feelings
Narrative- Poetry in which the speaker tells a story

3. Speaker
like the narrator of a story, the speaker of a poem is the voice that communicates with the reader.

4. Organization Form- the organizing principle that shapes a poem.
Structure- the poem’s arrangement of words, lines, and images, as well as ideas.
Stanza- A group of lines forming a unit in a poem. The “paragraph” in poetry.
Lines- rows of words that may or may not form sentences
Quatrain- a four-lines stanza
Sestet- A six-line stanza

5. Rhythm and Meter
Rhythm- the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry. A poem’s rhythm may be regular or irregular.
Meter- is the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that can establish the rhythm of a poem.

6. Rhyme
Definition- the repetition of the same stressed cowl sounds and any succeeding sounds in two or more words.
Internal Rhyme- occurs when two words in the same line rhyme.
End Rhyme- occurs at the end of the lines.
Couplet- two successive rhyming lines
Free Verse- poetry that is not written in formal patterns.
Rhyme Scheme- The pattern of rhymes forms by the rhyme at the end of a line of a poem

7. Rhyme Scheme Poem: Rhyme Scheme: Explanation: Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet
And so are you
_____
First line always gets _____
Blue doesn’t rhyme with red so it gets _____
Sweet doesn’t rhyme with red or blue so it gets _____
You rhymes with blue so it gets _____
But you are not
Not doesn’t rhyme with red, blue, or sweet so it gets _____
But now they are dead
Because of you
Dead rhymes with red so it gets _____

8. Rhyme Scheme Poem: Rhyme Scheme: Explanation: Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet
And so are you A B C
First line always gets A
Blue doesn’t rhyme with red so it gets B
Sweet doesn’t rhyme with red or blue so it gets C
You rhymes with blue so it gets B
But you are not
B C D
Not doesn’t rhyme with red, blue, or sweet so it gets D
But now they are dead
Because of you
Dead rhymes with red so it gets A

9. Key Terms used in Poetry (See your notebook for these terms and definitions)
Imagery-
Simile-
Metaphor-
Extended Metaphor- is a type of metaphor that compares two unlike things at length and in various ways throughout a poem.
Personification-
Sound Devices
Alliteration-
Assonance-
Consonance-
Repetition-

10. Alliteration vs. Assonance vs. Consonnance
Repetition of the vowel sound
Repetition of the consonant sound
Repetition at the beginning of words
Repetition in the middle or at the end of words
Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance

11. Alliteration vs. Assonance vs. Consonnance
Repetition of the vowel sound
Repetition of the consonant sound
Repetition at the beginning of words
Repetition in the middle or at the end of words
Alliteration X
Assonance
Consonance