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Poetry Devices Structure and Forms

The document discusses various literary devices used in poetry including imagery, tone, mood, rhyme, structure, and types of poems. It defines five types of imagery including visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, and tactile imagery. It also outlines poetic devices such as alliteration, consonance, assonance, and onomatopoeia. Additionally, it discusses poetic structures like stanzas, lines, rhyme schemes, and common forms including couplets, quatrains, and sestets. Finally, it identifies three main types of poems: narrative, lyric, and dramatic poems.

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Poetry Devices Structure and Forms

The document discusses various literary devices used in poetry including imagery, tone, mood, rhyme, structure, and types of poems. It defines five types of imagery including visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, and tactile imagery. It also outlines poetic devices such as alliteration, consonance, assonance, and onomatopoeia. Additionally, it discusses poetic structures like stanzas, lines, rhyme schemes, and common forms including couplets, quatrains, and sestets. Finally, it identifies three main types of poems: narrative, lyric, and dramatic poems.

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Imagery

 Descriptive language that appeals to the five senses.

 There are five types of imagery you need to know…


Imagery (cont.)
 Visual Imagery-
 Imagery that deals with picturing something.
 Example: The dark, black cloud began to block the
azure, blue sky as we sat and watched on the beach.
 Auditory Imagery-
 Imagery that deals with sound and hearing.
 Example: The doorbell rang and Rayna screamed, “I’ll get it!”
Imagery (cont.)
 Olfactory Imagery-
 Imagery that represents a smell.
 Example: The garbage can release an odor of rancid,
three-week-old milk.
 Gustatory Imagery-
 Imagery that represents a taste.
 Example: Mark tasted the briny, bitter salt water for the
first time.
Imagery (cont.)
 Tactile Imagery-
 Imagery that represents touch.
 Example: She dug her toes in the wet sand, but she was
still sweating from the hot sun.
Tone
 An author’s attitude toward his or her subject matter.
 We can figure out tone by an author’s word choice,
punctuation, sentence structure, and figures of speech.
 SAMPLE TONE WORDS:
sympathetic, serious, ironic, sad, bitter, humorous,
angry, apologetic, critical, proud
Mood
 The emotional quality of a literary work.

 Mood is determined by setting, subject matter, and


tone.
 SAMPLE MOOD WORDS:
Cheerful, gloomy, bleak, eerie, tense, calm, ominous,
uncertain, miserable
Poetry Devices
 Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds,
generally at the beginning of words.

 Example: Sally sells sea-shells by the sea shore.

 Consonance: The repetition of consonant sounds within


or at the end of words that do not rhyme or are preceded by
different vowel sounds.

 Example: The clock struck twelve, and he was tickled with


excitement as the ball dropped.
Poetry Devices (cont.)
 Assonance: The repetition of same or similar vowel sounds
in words that are close together.

 Example: So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.


Do you like blue?
Poetry Devices Continued
 Diction: A writer’s choice of words; an important
element in the writer’s voice or style.

 Denotation: The literal, dictionary meaning of a word.


 Example: The word “home” means, “the physical
structure within which one lives, such as a house.”

 Connotation: The suggested or implied meanings


associated with a word beyond its dictionary definition.
 Example: Words can have positive or negative
connotations. The word “home” might suggest positive
thoughts of comfort, family, protection, etc.
Poetry Devices (cont.)
 Onomatopoeia: The use of a word or phrase that
imitates or suggests the sound of what it describes.

 Examples: Hiss, crack, swish, murmur, mew, buzz.

 Apostrophe: A literary device in which a speaker


addresses an inanimate object, an idea, or an absent
person.

 Example: Oh, mother, where would I be without your


guidance!
Poetry Devices (cont.)
 Repetition: The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases,
lines or stanzas in a poem.

 Writers use repetition to emphasize an important


point, to expand on an idea, to create rhythm, and to
increase the unity of the work.

 Example: The repeated chorus of a song emphasizes the


message of that song.
Poetry Devices: 3 Types of Rhyme
 End Rhyme: The rhyming of words at the end of a line.
 Example: They could not excuse the sin.
That was committed by his kin.
 Internal Rhyme: Rhyme that occurs within a single line of
poetry.

 Example: No, baby, no, you may not go.”

 Slant Rhyme: Two words sound similar, but do not have a


perfect rhyme.

 Example: The words jackal and buckle.


Structure Items
 Speaker: The voice that communicates with the
reader of a poem (like a narrator).

 Stanza: A group of lines forming a unit in a poem


or a song.

 Line: The basic unit of poetry. The line is a word


or a row of words (not a sentence that extends over
to the next line, though).

 There are four structural poems you will need to know


based on the number of lines.
Structural Items (continued)
 Four types of poems based on line number:

 Couplet: Consists of two lines.

 Quatrain: Consists of four lines.

 Sestet: Consists of six lines.

 Octave: Consists of eight lines.


Structural Items (continued)
 Rhyme Scheme: The pattern that end rhymes
form in a stanza or poem.

 Rhyme scheme is designated by the assignment of a


different letter of the alphabet to each new rhyme.
Roses are red A
Violets are blue B
You stole my heart C
Then were untrue B
Poetry Types
 Narrative Poem: A poem that tells a story. Narrative
poems are usually contrasted with lyric poems.

 Lyric Poem: Poetry that expresses a speaker’s personal


thoughts or feelings.

 Dramatic Poem: Poetry that is designed to be spoken


and acted on stage.

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