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Mastering Poetry: Understanding the Basics and Beyond

Explore the essentials like form, stanza, and structure, while diving into traditional and free verse poetry. Discover techniques like rhyme, rhythm, and sound devices to enhance your writing. Unleash imagery and figurative language to craft captivating poems.

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Mastering Poetry: Understanding the Basics and Beyond

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  1. Basics of Poetry

  2. FORM • The way a poem’s words and lines are laid out on the page

  3. STANZA • The lines that are arranged into groups in a poem (similar to a paragraph)

  4. TRADITIONAL/STRUCTURED POEMS • Poems that follow fixed rules (e.g. a certain number of lines; a repeating pattern of rhyme or rhythm)

  5. FREE VERSE POEMS • Poems that do NOT follow set rules

  6. SPEAKER • The voice in a poem that talks to the reader (the speaker may or may not be the poet)

  7. SOUND DEVICES • Techniques that give poems a musical quality but can also create a mood & emphasize important words or ideas

  8. RHYME • The repetition of sounds at the end of words

  9. RHYTHM • The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line

  10. METER • A repeating pattern of rhythm within a poem

  11. REPETITION • The use of a word, phrase, or line more than once

  12. IMAGERY • Language that appeals to the five senses—sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch

  13. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE • The use of creative comparisons to help readers picture ordinary things in new ways

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