Where do you find poetry? Consider this: “We drove to the cave in silence.

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Where do you find poetry?

Consider this:

We drove to the cave in silence. When we arrived, She whispered to the piano player, Then took my hand.

We danced. And suddenly, something we had lost was back.Poetry is Everywhere:MusicTextbooksLove lettersPlays

Even, Mercedes Benz ads (as the one we just read).In order to understand poetry, you have to understand the devices a poet uses to write his poetry. Just as an artist chooses his medium- paint, clay, pencil, charcoal- so a poet chooses how he will create his work. Poets use a variety of tools or LITERARY and POETIC DEVICES-to breathe life and meaning into their words.

Poetic devices can be divided into three categories: Type of Poetry

Poetry Organization

Figurative Language Types of PoetryElegy: a poem that mourns the death of a person, that is simply sad and thoughtful.

Free Verse: poetry composed of rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no meter.

Fixed Form: various types of poems that have a prescribed meter and rhyme scheme. Types of Poetry4. Lyric: a poem, such as an ode or sonnet, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. A lyric poem usually resembles the form of a song.

5. Narrative: a poem that tells a story.

6. Ode: a lyric that is serious and thoughtful in tone and has a very precise, formal structure.

7. Sonnet: a formal poem written in iambic pentameter, of 14 lines, with a rhyme scheme of ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG.

Poetry OrganizationCouplet: two lines of poetry that rhyme.

Elision: the leaving out of a stressed or unstressed syllable or vowel, usually in order to keep a meter in a line of poetry. Example: oer for over

End Rhyme: when the end of lines of poetry rhyme.

Poetry Organization4. Foot: two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of rhythm in poetry.

5. Iambic Pentameter: Shakespeares plays were written in iambic pentameter, which is the most common type of meter in English poetry. I has five feet in each line, each foot having an unstressed, then stressed syllable.

6. Internal Rhyme: when words rhyme within one line of poetry.

Poetry Organization7. Meter: basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in a verse.

8. Quatrain: a stanza or poem of four lines.

9. Rhyme: the occurrence of similar sounds at the end of two or more words.

Poetry Organization10. Rhyme Scheme: the pattern of rhyming lines in a poem. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme .For example, abab would mean the first and third lines rhyme, and the second and fourth lines rhyme.

11. Stanza: two or more lines of poetry that form the divisions of a poem. Poetry Organization: Focus on Meter Meter: Name Order of Stress Number of Syllables Iamb (Iambic)unstressed, stressed 2 syllablesTrochee (Trochaic)stressed, unstressed 2 syllablesAnapest (Anapestic) unstressed, unstressed, stressed 3 syllables Dactyle (Dactylic) stressed, unstressed, unstressed 3 syllablesPyric unstressed, unstressed 2 syllables

Iambic example: Shall I | compare |Trochee example: By the shores of Gitche GumeePyric example: When the blood creeps and the nerves prick.Poetry Organization:Focus on Meter and Line LengthMonometer- One Foot Dimeter- Two Feet Trimeter- Three Feet Tetrameter- Four Feet Pentameter- Five Feet Hexameter- Six Feet Heptameter- Seven Feet Octameter- Eight FeetPoetry Organizations:Meter and Length Combinations Mixed Meter With Iambic Feet From "Intimations of Immortality," by William Wordsworth

.........1...............2.................3.....................4......................5There WAS..|..a TIME..|..when MEAD..|..ow, GROVE,..|..and STREAM Iambic Pentameter .........1................2...............3................4.The EARTH,..|..and EV..|..ry COM..|..mon SIGHT Iambic Tetrameter

.....1..............2To ME..|..did SEEM Iambic Dimeter

......1..............2.............3...............4Ap PAR..|..elled IN..|..cel EST..|..ial LIGHT Iambic Tetrameter

........1..............2.................3................4.................5The GLOR..|..y AND..|..the FRESH..|..ness OF..|..a DREAM. Iambic PentameterFigurative Language Alliteration: repetition of consonant sounds.

Assonance: repetition of vowel sounds.

Author: the individual who wrote a work of literature.

Figurative Language 4. Connotation: what a word suggests beyond its basic meaning. Consider the words home and house. Which has a more positive connotation?

5. Denotation: the dictionary meaning of a word.

6. Diction: the choice of words or phrases in a piece of writing.

Figurative Language7. Extended metaphor: a metaphor that is extended for several lines. (Similar to epic similes).

8. Figurative meaning: associative or connotative meaning; representational.

9. Hyperbole: an overstatement. Figurative Language10. Imagery: words that paint mental pictures.

11. Irony: the use of meaning that uses language that usually signifies the opposite.

12. Literal Meaning: the meaning that an author truly writes and explains. Figurative Language13. Metaphor: a comparison not using like or as.

14. Mood: the attitude or emotion that a reader receives from a work.

15. Motif: two contrasting elements in a work of literature, such as light and dark, death and life.

Figurative Langauge 16. Onomatopoeia: words that create sounds.

17. Paradox: statement or situation that contains contradictory or incompatible elements.

18. Personification: giving human characteristics to non-human things.

Figurative Language 19. Simile: figure of speech using like or as.

21. Speaker: the person from whom the point of view is from.

22. Symbol: idea, object, person, that represents something else.