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    This document provides an overview of different forms of poetry including narrative, lyric, and dramatic poetry. It defines poetry as using language in an aesthetic and rhythmic way. Elements of poetry include the speaker, content, theme, shape/form, mood/tone, and imagery. Narrative poetry tells a story through verse while lyric poetry focuses on private emotions and vision. Dramatic poetry features characters speaking to each other. Specific poetic forms like sonnets, odes, and epics are also outlined.

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    Poetry

    • derived from the Greek poiesis meaning


    "making"

    • uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of


    language
    Elements of Poetry
    • Speaker
    • Content
    • Theme
    • Shape and Form
    • Mood or Tone
    • Imagery
    • Diction
    Types of Poetry
    Narrative Poetry Lyric Poetry Dramatic Poetry

    • Epic • Ode • Dramatic


    • Matrical Tale • Elegy Monologue
    • Metrical romance • Sonnet
    • Ballad • Song
    Narrative Poetry
    • form of poem which tells a series of events
    using poetic devices such as rhythym,
    rhyme, compact language, and attention to
    sound
    Narrative Poetry
    • Epic
    – recounting the adventures of a warrior, king, or god

    • Matrical Tale
    – simple and straightforward story in verse

    • Metrical Romance
    – quest undertaken by a knight in order to gain a lady's favor

    – stresses the chivalric ideals of love, courage, loyalty, honor,


    mercifulness to an opponent, and exquisite and manners

    • Ballad
    – meant to be sung in ballad stanza

    – originally trasmitted orally

    – usually a four line stanza, alternating tetrameter and trimeter


    Lyric Poetry
    • generally considered the most intense genre of poetry
    • the form that honors its musical origin
    • from the Greek word lyre - a stringed instrument and
    suitable for the accompaniment of solitary singer
    • private, often visionary act on intelligence and
    emotion
    Lyric Poetry
    • Ode
    – praising and glorifying an individual, commemorating and event, or describing nature
    intellectually rather than emotionally

    • Elegy
    – mourning or sorrow for death

    – stemmed out of the Greek word known as elegus

    • Song
    – set to music

    – have strong beat created largely through the 3Rs: Rhythym, Rhyme, and Repetition

    • Sonnet
    – short poem with fourteen lines

    – originally a love poem


    Sonnet
    Petrarchan Spenserian Shakespeare

    - two stanzas - Edmund Spenser - William Shakespeare


    - octave and sestet - 3 quatrains and heroic - 3 quatrains & heroic
    - Rhyme Scheme: couplet in iambic couplet in iambic
    abbaabba pentameter pentameter
    cdecde/cdcdcd - Rhyme Scheme: - Rhyme Scheme:
    ababbcbccdcdee ababcdcdefefgg
    Dramatic Poetry

    • presents one or more characters speaking usually to


    other characters, but sometimes to themselves or to
    reader
    Dramatic Monologue
    • when a character reveals the innermost
    thoughts and feelings
    • through a poem or speech
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    4. Bullying

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