2. “POETRY”

3. Structure Rhyming or prose. Stanza like a paragraph - couplet 2 lines, tercet = 3, quatrain = 4 Poem types [epithamium/wedding, elegy/dead, pastoral/nature]

4. Analyzing Poetry Speaker: not always the poet – poet creates persona Audience in the poem Audience reading poem

5. Words Tone of voice & Rhythm: tells us the mood and message Diction: choice of words Syntax: order of words Denotation: literal meaning Connotation: implied meaning

6. Figure of Speech Simile (like) Metaphor (is) Personification / anthropomorphism Allusion(reference to another work, historical event, art, or person to add depth of meaning)

7. Figures of Speech Cont.. Metonymy – words based on association crown=monarchy Synecdoche – part = whole hand=person Hyperbole [exaggeration] Litote [understatement] Paradox and oxymoron (combines two contradictory terms)

8. Sound Mood: (flowing, choppy) Onomatopoeia: sounds like: buzz or hiss Alliteration: same consonant at beginning of each word (Little lover lacy) Assonance: same vowel sounds close together (The crook took the book) Rhyme

9. A little on rhyme scheme Mary had a little lamb[a] Whose fleece was white as snow [b] And everywhere that Mary went [c] The lamb was sure to go [b] It followed her to school one day [d] That was against the rule [e] It made the children laugh and play [d] To see a lamb at school [e]

10. Impressions Imagery: sensory impressions Symbolism: [red rose = love] Verbal irony: (one thing said, another meaning intended)