The Different Types of Poetry

What is Poetry?
A Short piece of imaginative writing in many different forms. An attempt to in understanding the world around us in This is done by using our human thoughts to words.

Types of Poetry
A very large amount of different styles. Different types of poetry are found at
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Which one is your favorite? Could you write a POEM?

What is a Poem?
An act of Discovery A written expression of different emotions and ideas. They arrange in different words and verses. They are usually written rhythmically.

Examples of Poems
My River a poem by Emily Dickinson
My river runs to thee. Blue sea, wilt thou welcome me? My river awaits reply. Oh! sea, look graciously. Ill fetch thee brooks from spotted nooks. Say, sea, Take me!

A Marriage Made in Heaven

Mr Camel and Miss Dromedary were married And in time a baby was due. Said Mrs Camel to her beloved 'Would you prefer one hump or two?'

Some Mechanics of Poetry

Broken Rhyme
Dividing the word at the end of a line to make a rhyme. For example: To Rhyme the word pain with raincoat you must carry the word coat to the next line.
There is nothing quite so impolite as yawning in a church.

Some Mechanics of Poetry

Chain Rhyme
During the rhyming, the first line matched the rhyme in the second line.
Trapped within a haze of fear, The Lord of Lies does appear.

 Meter

Some Mechanics of Poetry

Measure of different rhymes

The unit of meter is the foot Metrical lines are named for the number of feet in a line. (1) monometer, (2) dimeter, (3) trimeter, (4) tetrameter, (5) pentameter, (6) hexameter, (7) heptameter (8) octameter

 Pause

Some Mechanics of Poetry

Spaces between the syllables of a verse in the different rhymes.

Hear a sample of the different ways pauses can be used.

 Stress

Some Mechanics of Poetry

Special focus on a word, syllable, or phrase with a line of the verse. For Example:
On the first syllable if the word has two syllables. e.g.
Hear a sample of the different ways stress can be used.

 Versification

Some Mechanics of Poetry

This is the method of using meter and rhyme and creating it into your own art The art of writing verses There are different Versifications such as the
Quantitive Versification Syllabic Versification Accentual Versification

Figures of Speech
Imagery
Words that are used to create an image, figure, person, place, or thing. Allows the reader to feel more interested by the image in their head. Helps the reader understand the feelings the author is trying to tell you.

Figures of Speech
Irony
Words that are used to create an opposite meaning These are the different types of Irony
Verbal Irony Dramatic Irony Situational Irony Ironic Similes As hairy as a pinball As cold as a fire in the forest

Figures of Speech
Metaphor
A word that is used to make two things that are not the same equal. Connects to unrelated subjects
"The universe is God's playground. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances. (Shakespeare)

Figures of Speech
Oxymoron
Two words are joined together to make an opposite meaning. They offer unique wordings such as
Living deaths, freezing fires, deafening silence, and pretty ugly "And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true"

Figures of Speech
Hmmm So Does this mean..
Freezing fire? Living Death?

Ummm Possibly!

Figures of Speech
Personification
This is a form of a Metaphor. It uses objects, animals, or an idea to give a human-like characteristic. Gives emotions, desires, sensations and physical gestures to these objects.

Figures of Speech
Prose
Tell your classroom neighbor something interesting. You have just used some Prose. ordinary or plain everyday language This everyday language is used in a speech or a writing with no patterns or rhymes

Figures of Speech
Pun
The play of words that creates a sound or lines of humorous effect.

Figures of Speech
Repetition
Repeating a sound, line, syllable, phrase etc. Brings help to the meaning of a poem.
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills* we shall never surrender. (Churchill)

Figures of Speech
Rhyme
A repetition of identical or similar sounds in two or more different words This is most often used in poetrys and songs.
Hear a sample of the different ways rhymes can be used in a song.

Figures of Speech
Simile
A comparison between two unlike things using like or as.
As brave as My love is like a As fat as a