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Poetry Packet Table of Contents
What is Poetry……………………………………... 2-3 Poetic Terms Definitions ……………………….. 4-5
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Line – A line of poetry
Stanza – A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form--either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter, or with variations from one stanza to another.
Rhyme – The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Rhythm - The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Couplet – A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem. Shakespeare's sonnets end in rhymed couplets.
Meter - The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems. Free Verse – Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.
Tone - The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work.
Symbol – An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself.
Octave – An eight-line unit, which may constitute a stanza; or a section of a poem, as in the octave of a sonnet.
Sestet – A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem; the last six lines of an Italian sonnet.
Quatrain - A four-line stanza in a poem; the first four lines and the second four lines in a Petrarchan sonnet. A Shakespearean sonnet contains three quatrains followed by a couplet.
Rhyme
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“Strange Fruit” Abel Meeropol
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Poem: The crisp air surrounds my nose.
As the leaves crunch under my toes. The world is still
As nature gives me my fill Of quiet days.
If only like this it could stay.
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Do this on a separate piece of paper. You may type ideas here.
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