An Introduction to Poetry

1. An Introduction to Poetry Mrs. Nadia Khawandanah

2. Poetry Traditional: is language arranged in lines, with a regular rhythm and often a definite rhyme scheme. Nontraditional: Does away with regular rhythm and rhyme, although is usually set up in lines.

3. Type Form Language

4. Types of Poetry Lyric Narrative Dramatic

5. Lyric Poetry Short poems that express an intense emotional response of the speaker to some person, place, object, or idea. Kinds: Sonnets, hymns, songs, odes, and elegies.

6. Narrative Poetry Tells a story. Kinds: Epic and the ballad.

7. Dramatic Poetry Poetry in which one or more characters speak. Each speaker always addresses a specific listener. This listener may be silent, but identifiable Or may be another character who speaks in reply. Example: My Last Duchess = (dramatic monologue)

8. Form Stanza: A group of lines forming a unit in a poem. Many stanzas have a fixed pattern. The couplet .

9. Language 1- Figurative Language: Language that is not intended to interpreted in a literal sense. By appealing to the imagination, it provides new ways of looking at the world. Elements: (Figures of Speech) Metaphor, simile, and personification.

10. 2- Imagery Language that appeals to any sense or any combination of senses. Visual, sound, smell, taste, feel to the touch

11. 3- Sounds A- Rhyme : The repetition of sound in two or more words or phrases that usually appear close to each other. Examples: day/ May, abide/ tide, song/ long. B- Rhythm: The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into a pattern.

12. 3- Onomatopoeia : The use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or suggests its meaning. Examples: cuckoo, crow, hiss, clang.

13. References 1-Abrams M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. 6th ed. Orando: Harcourt, 1993. 2- Keach, William et. al. Adventures in English Literature. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Wonston, 1996.