The document discusses various poetic elements including:
- Stanza forms such as couplets, tercets, quatrains, and sestets.
- Literary devices like imagery, diction, syntax, theme, and figurative language.
- Characteristics of poetry such as using more intense language than prose, having a rhythmic quality, and combining observation with imagination.
The document discusses various poetic elements including:
- Stanza forms such as couplets, tercets, quatrains, and sestets.
- Literary devices like imagery, diction, syntax, theme, and figurative language.
- Characteristics of poetry such as using more intense language than prose, having a rhythmic quality, and combining observation with imagination.
The document discusses various poetic elements including:
- Stanza forms such as couplets, tercets, quatrains, and sestets.
- Literary devices like imagery, diction, syntax, theme, and figurative language.
- Characteristics of poetry such as using more intense language than prose, having a rhythmic quality, and combining observation with imagination.
1.Describe the given pictures. your past experiences to the present you cannot 2.How do you feel when there help but to find similarities and differences. are changes and innovations? 3.What do the pictures ADD A FOOTER suggest? 3 ADD A FOOTER 4 • A kind of language that says more and says it more intensely than ordinary language does. • It is a kind of word-music. It has a tune of its own. • It expresses all the senses • It answers the demand for rhythm. • It is an observation plus imagination. 5 1.Speaker 6.Mood or tone 2.Audience 7.Imagery 3.Content 8.Diction 4.Theme 9.Syntax 5.Shape and form 10.Figurative Language ADD A FOOTER 6 • Stanza –set of lines in a poem grouped together and set apart from other stanzas in the poem either by a double space or by different indentation. Poems may contain any number of stanzas, depending on the author’s wishes and the structure in which the poet is writing. 7 • Closed Couplet: A stanza of 2 lines, usually rhyming • Tercet: A stanza of 3 lines. When a poem has tercets that have a rhyme scheme of ABA, then BCB, then CDC and so forth, this is known as terza rima. One famous example is Dante’s Divine Comedy. • Quatrain: A stanza of 4 lines, usually with rhyme schemes of AAAA, AABB, ABBA, or ABAB • Cinquain: A stanza of 5 lines • Sestain or Sestet: A stanza of 6 lines • Octave: A stanza of 8 lines in iambic pentameter or hendecasyllables, usually with the rhyme scheme ABBA ABBA 8 ADD A FOOTER 9