This document discusses the elements and types of poetry. It defines poetry as using distinctive style and rhythm to express feelings and ideas. The main elements discussed are stanzas, rhyme schemes, rhythm, repetition techniques like anaphora and assonance, onomatopoeia, themes, and other elements like imagery and metaphor. The types of poetry covered are lyric poetry including odes, elegies, songs and sonnets, narrative poetry including epics, metrical tales and ballads, and dramatic poetry including dramatic monologues and orations.
This document discusses the elements and types of poetry. It defines poetry as using distinctive style and rhythm to express feelings and ideas. The main elements discussed are stanzas, rhyme schemes, rhythm, repetition techniques like anaphora and assonance, onomatopoeia, themes, and other elements like imagery and metaphor. The types of poetry covered are lyric poetry including odes, elegies, songs and sonnets, narrative poetry including epics, metrical tales and ballads, and dramatic poetry including dramatic monologues and orations.
This document discusses the elements and types of poetry. It defines poetry as using distinctive style and rhythm to express feelings and ideas. The main elements discussed are stanzas, rhyme schemes, rhythm, repetition techniques like anaphora and assonance, onomatopoeia, themes, and other elements like imagery and metaphor. The types of poetry covered are lyric poetry including odes, elegies, songs and sonnets, narrative poetry including epics, metrical tales and ballads, and dramatic poetry including dramatic monologues and orations.
This document discusses the elements and types of poetry. It defines poetry as using distinctive style and rhythm to express feelings and ideas. The main elements discussed are stanzas, rhyme schemes, rhythm, repetition techniques like anaphora and assonance, onomatopoeia, themes, and other elements like imagery and metaphor. The types of poetry covered are lyric poetry including odes, elegies, songs and sonnets, narrative poetry including epics, metrical tales and ballads, and dramatic poetry including dramatic monologues and orations.
TYPES OF POETRY literary work in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.
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W meaning, sound and rhythm. ELEMENTS OF POETRY • A unit of lines grouped together • Some of different types of stanzas are as follows: 1. Couplet 2. Tercets (ABA or AAA) Stanza 3. Quatrain (AAAA, AABB, ABBA, ABAB) 4. Quintet 5. Sextet 6. Septet 7. Octave • The pattern in which end rhyme occurs. • This technique makes the poem easy to remember. Rhyme Scheme • The repetition of the same or similar sounds, usually in stressed syllables at the end of the Rhyme lines, but sometimes within a line. • The pattern of beats or stresses in a poem. • Poets use patterns of stressed and unstressed Rhythm syllables to create a regular rhythm. • A word or phrase repeated within a line or stanza. Sometimes, it reinforces or even Repetition substitutes for meter (beat), the other chief controlling factor of poetry. • A technique where several phrases or phrases begin with the same words.
Anaphora • A technique where several phrases or Epistrophe phrases end with the same words. • The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of the words. Alliteration Assonance Consonance The repetition of vowel sounds which The repetition of a consonant sound creates rhyme. at the beginning, middle or end of the Examples: word. Examples: • The black cat had the rat’s bag • Yea, though I walk through the valley of the • How now brown cow? shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art • Do you do voodoo? with me; thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
• Zach sneezed when he heard the jazz music.
• Words that are used to represent particular sounds.
1. I was just beginning to yawn with nerves thinking he was trying to make a fool of me when I knew his tattarrattat at the door. • The theme of the poem talks about the central idea or in short, a theme stands for whatever the poem is about.
Two Essential Elements • The tone refers to the attitude and mood of of Poetry the poem. It is the overall atmosphere of the poem which influences the emotional response of the reader. ✔ Symbolism ✔ Imagery Other Elements ✔ Simile ✔ Metaphor ✔ Personification TYPES OF POETRY 1. Lyric Poetry 2. Narrative Poetry 3. Dramatic Poetry • A poem that is very personal in nature. It expresses the author’s own thoughts, feelings, moods and reflections in musical language. • It derived it’s name from the musical Lyric Poetry instrument, the lyre.
1. Ode 2. Elegy 3. Song 4. Sonnet Ode • This is a poem of nobelling feeling, expressed with dignity and praises for some persons, objects, events or ideas. Elegy • This is a lyric poem which expresses lament and mourning of the dead, feeling of grief and melancholy. • The theme of this poem is death Song • A lyric poem in a regular metrical pattern set to music. • These have twelve syllables and slowly sung to the accompaniment of a guitar and banduria. Sonnet • The name “sonnet” derives from Italian word sonnet which means little song. • It is a relatively short poem consisting of merely fourteen lines. • It is known to follow a strict pattern of rhyme. • Classified into Petrarchan, Shakespearean, Spenserian and Miltonic sonnets • It narrates a story through the use of poetic diction either real or imaginary. • This form of poetry describe events in a vivid way, using some of the elements as short Narrative Poetry stories, plot characters and dialogue.
1. Epic 2. Metrical Tale 3. Ballad Epic • This is a long and narrative poem that normally tells a story about a hero or an adventure. • Epics can be oral stories or can be poems in written form Metrical Tale • A narrative poem consisting usually a single series of connective events that are simple. • Examples of these are simple idylls, home or love tales, tales of the supernatural . Ballad • Ballad poetry is often based on a legend or a folk tale. • Most ballads are written in four-six stanzas and has a regular rhythms and rhyme schemes • The simplest type of narrative poetry • The word “drama” implies one or more characters and actions. • Dramatic poetry aims at involving the readers in an experience or situation, and creates Dramatic Poetry tension, immediacy, expectation and conflict • More emphasis on character rather than on narrative Dramatic Monologue • A combination of drama and poetry • It presents some line or speech of single character in a particular but complicated situation and sometimes in a dilemma. Dramatic Monologue • A combination of drama and poetry • It presents some line or speech of single character in a particular but complicated situation and sometimes in a dilemma. Oration • This is a formal address elevated in tone and usually delivered on some notable occasion Character Sketch • This is a poem which the writers concerned less with the elements of story. • He presents his observations and comments to a particular individual
