21st Century

    Cards (35)

    • José Garcia Villa
      was born in Manila in 1908. He attended the University of the Philippines, but he was suspended in 1929 after publishing a series of erotic poems, titled “Man-Songs,” in the Philippines Herald Magazine. That same year, he won a short story contest through the Philippines Free Press and used the prize money to travel to the United States, where he studied at the University of New Mexico.
    • The Human Brain is:
      • Divided into 2 parts
      • Each half has its own function
    • Left Brain:

      Logic
      Reality
      Literal
    • Right Brain:

      Creativity
      Emotions
      Figurative
    • Poetry
      A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)
    • Traditional
      Forms: Epic, ode, ballad, sonnet, haiku, limerick
      Follows specific rules, Regular pattern of rhyme, rhythm, meter
    • Organic
      No rules, No regular pattern of rhythm, meter, & may/may not have rhyme  Forms: free verse, concrete poetry
    • Elements of Poetry
      Form, Line, Stanza
    • Form
      the appearance of the words on the page
    • Line
      a group of words together on one line of the poem
    • Stanza
      a group of lines arranged together
    • Rhythm
      The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem
    • Rhythm
      can be created by meter, rhyme, alliteration and refrain.
    • 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.
    • Meter
      -measured in “FEET” -length of a line in poetry (measured by how many feet are in it) -depends on the rhythm used
      -1 foot = 1 set of rhythm (set of stressed & unstressed syllables)
    • Iambic/Trochaic
      1 foot of poetry has 2 syllables
    • Anapestic/Dactylic
      1 foot of poetry has 3 syllables
    • Foot
      unit of meter
    • A foot can have how many syllables?
      two or three syllables.
    • Types of Poetic Measurements…
      1: Monometer
      2: Dimeter
      3: Trimeter
      4: Tetrameter
      5: Pentameter
      6: Hexameter
      7: Heptameter
      8: Octameter
    • Rhyme
      Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds.
    • END RHYME
      A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
    • INTERNAL RHYME
      A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line.
    • NEAR RHYME
      -a.k.a imperfect rhyme, close rhyme
      -The words share EITHER the same vowel or consonant sound BUT NOT BOTH
    • RHYME SCHEME
      A rhyme scheme is a pattern of rhyme (usually end rhyme, but not always).
    • ONOMATOPOEIA
      Words that imitate the sound they are naming BUZZ OR sounds that imitate another sound
    • ALLITERATION
      Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words
    • ALLITERATION
      If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
    • ONOMATOPOEIA
      “The silken, sad, uncertain, rustling of each purple curtain . . .”
    • CONSONANCE
      Similar to alliteration EXCEPT …
      The repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words
    • ASSONANCE
      Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of poetry.
      (Often creates near rhyme.)
    • ASSONANCE
      “Slow the low gradual moan came in the snowing.”
    • Refrain
      entire stanza is repeated throughout a poem
      like a chorus of a song
    • poetry
      writing chosen and arranged to create a certain emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm
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