poetry

• A metaphor is an implicit comparison that states that one thing IS another thing.
• Poetry can be written in any form, including free verse (without rhyme or meter) or structured forms such as sonnets, haikus, or villanelles.
• The poetic form refers to the structure of a poem, including its rhyme scheme, meter, stanza length, and other formal elements.
• Metaphors can be used to create vivid descriptions and bring abstract concepts to life.
• Personification is giving human qualities to non-human things, such as animals, objects or ideas.
• Onomatopoeia are words that imitate sounds they describe.
• Simile compares two different things using "like" or "as".
• Stanza length refers to the number of lines in each grouping of lines in a poem.
• Meter refers to the number of stressed syllables per line and how they are arranged within the line.
• Rhyme scheme refers to the pattern of end-rhymes in a poem, often represented by letters indicating which words at the ends of lines are identical.
• Assonance is when vowel sounds repeat within words.
• Couplets have two lines, while triplets have three lines.
• The most common types of stanzas include couplets (two lines), triplets (three lines), quatrains (four lines), and sonnets (14 lines).
• A quatrain has four lines.
• An iambic meter has one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable.
• Spondaic meter has two stressed syllables together.
• Trochaic meter has one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
• Dactylic meter has one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables.
• Spondaic meter can be used to create emphasis or tension in a poem.
• The earliest form of poetry was narrative poetry. A narrative poem is a story told in the form of a poem. A narrative poem has a narrator: someone who tells the story.
• Originally, lyric poetry was a song sung to the music of a lyre or a lute. It is usually a short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker. Lyric poetry, like modern pop songs, deals with the poet’s feelings, impressions or thoughts.
• Dramatic poetry is poetry that appears like dialogue in a play. This kind of poem is written either in monologue or dialogue, and is told in the voice of a persona.
• A parody is a work that imitates another work in such a way that it makes fun of the original. It can be a song, a film, a poem, a story or a novel.
• Didactic poetry is poetry that states a message or teaches something. Poetry that educate its readers about a particular subject or moral lesson.
• Haiku is a Japanese verse form consisting of three lines without rhyme. The first and third line contain five syllables; the second contains seven syllables.
• An elegy is a type of poem that mourns the death of a person or thing.
• Epic poems are long stories about heroes and their adventures. They often have gods as characters.
• Ballad is a narrative poem that tells a story through singing. Ballads were originally sung by traveling singers called balladeers.
• Ode is a formal poem that celebrates someone or something. It has at least four stanzas and follows a specific pattern of rhyme and meter.
• found poetry is a type of poetry where words, phrases or sometimes a whole passages was taken from other sources like news, signboards, posters or others and rearranged in line to form a meaningful poem
• concrete poetry combines both poetic writing and drawing. the poem uses the way words are written on the page to form an image whereas visual poetry is to integrate the image into texts to the poem.
• prose poetry is a poem that uses prose to convey meaning and emotion. It is not divided into lines or stanzas and is a short poem sometimes only one to two paragraphs. Prose poetry is a snapshots of a moments.
• prose poems are written so as to resemble prose on a page. It does not have narrative structure like beginning, middle and end.
• digital poetry is a genre of poetry that uses digital technology to create and display poems
• open-form poetry is a poem that does not have prescribed rhyme scheme or meter.
• pastoral poetry is poetry that is written about the countryside and rural life.
• villanelle is a poem with a fixed rhyme scheme and a fixed number of lines
• sonnet is a type of poem that has fourteen lines and follows a strict rhyming pattern
• The sestina consists of six sestets followed by one tercet as a closing stanza, called an envoi or envoy. There is no rhyme scheme in the sestina. Instead, six end-words are repeated in a fixed pattern
• Rhyme occurs when the word endings of two words sound alike.