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What are some examples of lyric poetry?
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Lyrics, odes,sonnets, haiku, songs, ballads
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What is a lyric poem?
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Melodious, imaginative, and subjective poetry that is usually personal, expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker rather than telling a story
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What is the theme of a poem?
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The ideas or points that the writer wants to convey through his or her work. TOPIC AND THEME ARE NOT THE SAME THING
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Where does the meaning of a poem derive from?
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Combines de ideas or themes withs emotional impact and the experience that it creates for the reader
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What comprises the poet's style?
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The diction, imagery, use of symbolism, and usea of figures of speech
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What is the form of a poem and what does it indicate?
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It is the general pattern of a poem and indicates the poem's structure or design, does not relate to a poem's content
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What is closed form poetry?
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Written in specific and usually traditional patterns of rhyme scheme, line lenght, meter, line groupings, stanzas.
Examples: ballads, lyrics, odes, sonnets |
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What is open form poetry and what are some important types?
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Poetry that does not follow traditional patterns of organization
TYPES
-FREE VERSE -VISUAL POETRY OR SHAPED VERSE -CONCRETE POETRY (fusion of words and visual art) |
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What is blank verse?
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It is somewhere between open form and close form poetry but it has no rhyme scheme, standard line lenght, or pattern of stanza organizaton, but it does have meter
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What is tone in a poem?
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The means by which writers reveal attitudes and feelings about their topic. The mood of a work . When a questions asks you about tone, you must consider the ways in which a poem expresses and controls his or her attitudes about the topic. EVERYTHING IN A POEM CONTRIBUTES TO ITS TONE
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What is dissonance?
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Harsh sounds that produce an unpleasant tone; intentional use of sounds that clash with the surrounding sounds and rhythm
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What is the voice of a poem?
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The author's style, quality that makes up his or hers writting unique, conveys attitudes, personality, and characters
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What is an apostrophe?
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A device used to call out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or abstraction either to begin a poem or to make a dramatic break in thought within the poem
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Metonymy
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Using the name of an object, person, or idea to represent something with which it associated
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Synecdoche
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Using a part of something to stand for the whole
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