1 / 58

POETIC TERMS

POETIC TERMS. ALLUSION. A reference to a historical figure, place, or event. ALLUSION. “O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,

kiona-dotson
Download Presentation

POETIC TERMS

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. POETIC TERMS

  2. ALLUSION A reference to a historical figure, place, or event.

  3. ALLUSION “O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won; The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring: But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.” ~Walt Whitman, “O Captain! My Captain!”

  4. ANALOGY A broad comparison between two basically different things that have some points in common. Usually takes form in a simile or metaphor.

  5. SIMILE A direct comparison between two basically different things. A simile is introduced by the words “like” or “as”.

  6. SIMILE “And when they all were seated,/ A Service like a Drum —/ Kept beating — beating — till I thought/ My Mind was going numb” ~Emily Dickinson, “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain”

  7. METAPHOR An implied comparison between two basically different things. Is not introduced with the words “like” or “as”.

  8. METAPHOR “Call us what you will, we are made such by love;          Call her one, me another fly,          We'are tapers too, and at our own cost die, And we in us find the'eagle and the dove.                 The phœnix riddle hath more wit                 By us; we two being one, are it. So, to one neutral thing both sexes fit,          We die and rise the same, and prove          Mysterious by this love.” ~John Donne, “The Canonization”

  9. HYPERBOLE A great exaggeration to emphasize strong feeling.

  10. HYPERBOLE “By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Concord Hymn”

  11. PERSONIFICATION Human characteristics are given to non-human animals, objects, or ideas.

  12. PERSONIFICATION “The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbour and city on silent haunches And then moves on.” ~ Carl Sandburg, “Fog”

  13. APOSTROPHE An absent person or inanimate object is directly spoken to as though they were present.

  14. APOSTROPHE “Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu” ~John Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

  15. SYNECDOCHE A part stands for the whole or vice versa.

  16. SYNECDOCHE “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears” ~William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

  17. IMAGERY The use of concrete details that appeal to the five senses.

  18. IMAGERY I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each/ I do not think that they will sing to me/ I have seen them riding seaward on the waves/ Combing the white hair of the waves blown back/ When the wind blows the water white and black/ We have lingered in the chambers of the sea/ By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown/ Till human voices wake us, and we drown.” ~T.S. Eliot, “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

  19. IRONY A contrast between what is said and what is meant. Also, when things turn out different than what is expected.

  20. IRONY “Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.” ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

  21. MOOD The overall atmosphere or prevailing emotional feeling of a work.

  22. MOOD Explain the mood of these poems: “Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am in a thousand winds that blow, I am the softly falling snow.” ~Mary Elizabeth Frye “Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep” “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.” ~Robert Barrett Browning, “Sonnets from the Portuguese, 43”

  23. POINT OF VIEW The vantage point from which an author presents the action in a work.

  24. END RHYME The repetition of identical sounds at the ends of lines of poetry.

  25. END RHYME “Nature's first green is gold,Her hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay.” ~Robert Frost, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”

  26. INTERNAL RHYME The repetition of identical sounds within a line of poetry.

  27. INTERNAL RHYME “I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,        From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid       In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken…” ~Percy Bysshe Shelley “The Cloud”

  28. SETTING The time (both the time of day and period in history) and place in which the action of a literary work takes place.

  29. SETTING “Tiger! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night” ~William Blake, “The Tiger”

  30. REPETITION The repeating of a sound, word, phrase, or more in a given literary work.

  31. REPETITION “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,/ As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door./ 'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door - / Only this, and nothing more.’” ~Edgar Allen Poe, “The Raven”

  32. ALLITERATION The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words.

  33. ALLITERATION “Glory be to God for dappled things –    For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;       For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;    Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough;       And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.” ~Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”

  34. ASSONANCE The repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonants.

  35. ASSONANCE “. . .that hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.” ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson “Ulysses”

  36. CONSONANCE The repetition of consonant sounds that are preceded by different vowel sounds.

  37. CONSONANCE “We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.” ~Gwendolyn Brooks “We Real Cool”

  38. ONOMATOPOEIA The use of words whose sounds suggest the sounds made by objects or activities.

  39. ONOMATOPOEIA “…While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.” ~Edgar Allen Poe, “The Bells”

  40. THEME The main idea or underlying meaning of a literary work.

  41. THEME What is the theme in this poem?: “I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.” ~Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken”

  42. Now, take a moment and create your own examples for 10 of these literary/poetic devices. You may work with a partner! Add this to your notes.

  43. POETRY TYPES

  44. METER • A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. • Meter occurs when the stressed and unstressed syllables of the words in a poem are arranged in a repeating pattern. • When poets write in meter, they count out the number of stressed (strong) syllables and unstressed (weak) syllables for each line. They they repeat the pattern throughout the poem.

  45. METER cont. • Foot - unit of meter. The types of feet are determined by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables. • TYPES OF FEET • Iambic - unstressed, stressed What light | through yon | der win | dow breaks • Trochaic - stressed, unstressed Fire | burn and | cauldron | bubble • Anapestic - unstressed, unstressed, stressed With the sheep | in the fold | and the cows | in their stalls • Dactylic - stressed, unstressed, unstressed love again | song again | nest again | young again

  46. FREE VERSE POETRY • Unlike metered poetry, free verse poetry does NOT have any repeating patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables. • Does NOT have rhyme. • Free verse poetry is very conversational - sounds like someone talking with you. • A more modern type of poetry.

  47. BLANK VERSE POETRY • Written in lines of iambic pentameter, but does NOT use end rhyme. from Julius Ceasar Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

  48. LYRIC • A short poem • Usually written in first person point of view • Expresses an emotion or an idea or describes a scene • Doesn’t tell a story and is often musical

  49. HAIKU “Agonize for me daughter of a sinful birth: Antigone, dead.” A Japanese poem written in three lines Five Syllables Seven Syllables Five Syllables “An old silent pond . . . A frog jumps into the pond. Splash! Silence again.”

  50. CINQUAIN A five line poem containing 22 syllables Two Syllables Four Syllables Six Syllables Eight Syllables Two Syllables How frail Above the bulk Of crashing water hangs Autumnal, evanescent, wan The moon.

More Related