1. Poetry

2. What is poetry?
One of the three major literary genres in which authors use words in special ways

3. Genre in which words are usually written in verse to inspire strong feeling
Divided into 3 main categories: narrative, lyrical and dramatic

4. Narrative Poetry Meant to tell a story
Many stories are about heroes, places in time or interesting people
Narrative = Story

5. Lyrical Poetry has a musical, emotional mood Often sounds like a song
Uses words that express feelings and thoughts about the world
Many lyrical poems are about love- but can be about anything that stirs the emotions

6. DRAMATIC POETRY Written in verse and meant to be spoken
Tell about something in a descriptive way
Often focuses on extreme or stressful moments or relationships in life (death, tragedy, etc.)
Most are meant to be preformed in front of an audience (a play or an opera)

7. to create images through the rhythm of language
Why does poetry exist?
to create images through the rhythm of language
to express thoughts & feelings through lyrical language

8. 5 Forms & Features of Poetry
A. Vary in length – can be a few lines or as long as a book

9. B. words are chosen for sound as well as meaning
C. poems are usually meant to be read aloud

10. D. poets use words to create sensory images
E. poets often rely on the 5 senses to create meaning

11. one of the MOST important features of poetry
Imagery
one of the MOST important features of poetry
a word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses

12. The 5 Senses
SIGHT
SOUND
TASTE
SMELL
TOUCH
FEEL (Emotional)

13. stanzas are further divided into lines
poems are written in stanzas
(stanzas are like paragraphs)
Lines
stanzas are further divided into lines

14. A rhyming PATTERN found in the lines/stanzas of poems.
RHYME SCHEME
A rhyming PATTERN found in the lines/stanzas of poems.