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Components. Imagery Allows us to be transported to another place, time, and experience Diction Each word accomplishes a task Denotation, connotation, sound Sound *always works to extend the meaning of the poem Rhyme Exact, slant, internal, end Assonance, Consonance Cacophony, Euphony

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  1. Components • Imagery • Allows us to be transported to another place, time, and experience • Diction • Each word accomplishes a task • Denotation, connotation, sound • Sound *always works to extend the meaning of the poem • Rhyme • Exact, slant, internal, end • Assonance, Consonance • Cacophony, Euphony • Meter • Rhythm accomplished by using a number of beats/syllables per line

  2. Comparisons • Metaphor • Direct, Indirect • Personification • Oxymoron • Hyperbole • Understatement • Litotes (negative affirms positive) • Meiosis (rhetorical understatement)

  3. Theme • Tells us what is true about us *saying something new or saying something old in a new way

  4. Key Terms • Alliteration • Apostrophe* • Assonance • Consonance • Couplet • Epigram* • Fixed form • Iambic pentameter • Rhythm • Sestet • Simile • Speaker* • Metaphor* • Imagery* • Metaphysical conceit • Meter* • Personification* • Anthropomorphism • Pun • Rhyme/rhyme scheme • Synechdoche • Structure* • Tone* • Unity

  5. How to Read a Poem • Read slowly and aloud • Read meaningful chunks, not lines • Use punctuation as cues • Be careful of rhythmic poems that have a beat (you can lose your quest for meaning if you get caught up in the “music”)

  6. Annotate the Poem for STIFS • S = Speaker • T = Tone • I = Imagery • F = Figurative Language • S = Sound

  7. Always Answer This Question: • What is this poem about and how do I know this? • Be sure you can support your claims with evidence from the poem.

  8. Meter Measures of Meter

  9. Stanza Types

  10. Common Fixed Form Poems • Haiku • Sestina • Sonnet • Villanelle • Ballad • Elegy • Epic • Lyric • Narrative • Ode • Prose

  11. The Sestina 1. ABCDEF2. FAEBDC3. CFDABE4. ECBFAD5. DEACFB6. BDFECA7. (envoi) ECA or ACE Spectacular effects through repetition

  12. The Villanelle • 19-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains • made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain • first and third lines of the opening tercet are repeated alternately in the last lines of the succeeding stanzas • in the final stanza, the refrain serves as the poem's two concluding lines • Using capitals for the refrains and lowercase letters for the rhymes, the form could be expressed as: A1 b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 A2

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