1. Poetry

2. What is poetry?
Type of rhythmic, compressed language that uses figures of speech and imagery to appeal to the reader’s emotions & imagination.
Two major types:
1. Lyric poems
2. Narrative poems

3. What is the difference between lyric & narrative poems?
Poems that tell a story.
Examples are epics & ballads.
LYRIC POEMS:
Poems that do not tell a story, but is aimed at expressing a speaker’s emotions or thoughts.
Major type of lyric poem is the sonnet.

4. What are ballads? SONGS which tell stories of tragedy or adventure.
Use simple language & lots of repetition.
Usually have a regular rhythm & rhyme scheme, which makes them easy to memorize.

5. What is a sonnet? 14 line lyric poem.
Iambic pentameter: rhythm of natural language.
- iamb: unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one (ex: before).
- pentameter: 5 stressed syllables, or beats, in each line.
Follows a regular rhyme pattern.

6. How important is imagery to poetry?
Imagery: language that appeals to the senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell, & taste).
Imagery is present in all poems.
It shapes how we interpret a poem by influencing our feelings about it.
Images may be pleasant/ unpleasant.

7. Is there only one way to rhyme?
Rhyme: the repetition of accented vowel sounds, & all sounds following them, in words that are close together in a poem.
End rhymes: occur at the ends of lines.
Internal rhymes: occur in the middle of a line.
Approximate rhymes: 2 words have a sound in common but do not necessarily rhyme.

8. How do rhyme & rhythm shape poems?
Rhyme scheme, the pattern of end rhymes in a poem, defines the shape of a poem.
Rhythm is a musical quality based on repetition.
Meter is a regular pattern of stressed & unstressed syllables in each line of poetry.

9. Do poems have to rhyme?
Free verse is poetry which does not follow regular rhyme & meter patterns.
Rhythm is create through repeated words or lines.
Language sounds ordinary.

10. Whose poem is it? The voice talking to us in a poem is the speaker.
Not necessarily the poet; it can be anyone or anything.
Speaker impacts tone, the attitude expressed toward its subject or audience.
The speaker’s tone & style of speaking create the speaker’s voice.
All of these are the keys to determining a poem’s meaning.