Chapter 7: Interesting Characters

• Enjambment is when reader continues a sentence without a pause to create dual meanings or effect.

  
• A limerick poem is a humorous poem of just five lines with rhyming scheme AABBA. The 1st, 2nd, 5th have 7-10 syllables. The 3rd, 4th have 5-7 syllables.
• Poet Edward Lear is known for his nonsense poems, especially limericks.
• Rhyming couplet is 2 lines in a poem, usually of the same length and rhyme. It makes up one thought.
• This is an example of narrative poem.

  
• A narrative poem in literature is a poem which tells a story, including characters, plot, conflict, setting, resolution, and action.
• This is an example of limerick poem.

  
• This is an example of praise poem.

  
• This is an example of alliterative poem.

  
• This is an example of alliterative poem.

  
• Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Missouri in the United States of America.
• Langston Hughes became leader of the Harlem Renaissance which was an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theatre, and politics in the 1920s and 1930s.
• Hughes made the poem Mother to Son.
• Robert Frost


  American poet, playwright, wrote nearly 200 poems and many plays. He wrote the poem The Road Not Taken, Mending Wall.
• Emily Dickinson


  An American poet known for her unique style and exploration of themes such as death, life, and nature
• Sonnet is a form of poem that has 14 lines. It covers themes like love, jealousy, beauty, and mortality. It is often written above a person or a relationship with a person.
• Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet - 14 lines, first 8 lines is ABBA ABBA, next 6 lines is CDC CDC or CDE CDE
• English or Shakespearean - 14 lines, ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme scheme
• Spenserian - 14 lines, ABAB BCBC CDCD EE rhyme scheme
• Emily Dickinson made poems like It Was Not Death, for I stood still, Hope is the Thing, With Feathers , Because I Could Not Stop For Death
• Edgar Allan Poe


  American writer, editor, and literary critic known for his dark and mysterious poetry and short stories, often exploring themes of death, loss, and the human psyche.
• Edgar Allan Poe made poems such as The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, and Annabel Lee.
• Extended metaphor is an implied comparison that is continued over several lines or paragraphs in writing.