FEATURES OF POETRY

TYPES OF POETRY
PAGES 101, 77

Prepared by: Teacher Grace Arellado

FEATURES OF POETRY
Page 101
 POETRY is a type of
literature in which
words and rhythm are
strung together to form
sounds, images, and
ideas that might be too
complex or abstract to
describe directly
 FEATURES OF POETRY
 Has an overall central theme or idea.
 Has mental pictures created by a poet thru
language.
 Provokes thought and causes emotional
response
 Has elements.
 STANZA
A part of poem with similar
rhythm and rhyme that will
usually repeat later in the
poem.

*ELEMENTS OF POETRY
 VERSE
A line of a poem, or a
group of lines within a
long poem.

*ELEMENTS OF POETRY
 METER
A rhythm that
continuously repeats a
single basic pattern.

*ELEMENTS OF POETRY
 RHYME
Words that end with
similar sounds, usually
at the end of a line of
the poem.

*ELEMENTS OF POETRY
 RHYMING
Two lines of a poem
together with the same
rhythm.

*ELEMENTS OF POETRY
 RHYTHM
A pattern created with
sounds: hard-soft,
long-short, bouncy,
quiet-loud, weak-
strong.
*ELEMENTS OF POETRY
 With your knowledge of the types and features
of poetry, write your own poem. Choose from the
following themes

• Good vs. • Courage and

evil heroism
• Power and • Betrayal
corruption • Nature
• Love
TYPES
OF
POETR
Y
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 HAIKU
• Three line stanzas with a form
of 5-7-5 syllable count.
• Focuses on beauty and
simplicity in nature ang simple
moments of life.
*TYPES OF
 FREE VERSE POEM
• Non-metrical, non-rhyming
lines that closely follow the
natural rhythms of speech
• Poet does not adhere to
metrical plan in composition
*TYPES OF
 CINQUAINS
• Five-line poem by Adelaide
Crapsey(American poet)
• Inspired from Japanese haiku and
tanka
• Have vivid imagery meant to convey
a certain mood or emotion.
*TYPES OF
 EPIC POEMS
• A long, narrative poem usually about
heroic deeds and events significant to
culture of the poet
• Inherent elements are superhuman
deeds, fabulous adventures, highly stylized
language, & blending of lyrical and
dramatic traditions
*TYPES OF
 BALLAD POEMS
• A plot driven song, showing—rather than
telling
•Has one or more characters hurriedly unfurling
events leading to a dramatic conclusion.
• Often in quatrain stanzas, each line containing
as few as 3 or 4 stresses and rhyming either
the second and fourth lines, or all alternating
lines.
*TYPES OF
 ACROSTIC POEMS
• A type of poetry where the first, last or
other letters in line spell out particularly
word or phrase.
• Most common and simple form of
acrostic is the first letters of each line
spell out the word or phrase.
*TYPES OF
 SONNETS
• A 14-lines poem
• Has conventions on number of lines and
specific rhyme schemes and meter
• Originated in Italy in the 13th century,
derived from Italian word sonetto meaning
“little sound” or “little song.”

*TYPES OF
 SYNTHESIS:
Poems have central theme/idea, have mental
pictures created by poets, used descriptive and
vivid language and have elements such as
stanza, verse, meter, rhyme, rhyming and
rhythm.
Common types poetry are haiku, free verse
poems, cinquains, epic poems, ballad poems,
acrostic poems and sonnets.
 LET’S DO
THIS!

Answer activitiy 1
on pages 7 and 8.
 THANK YOU
FOR YOUR
ACADEMIC
INDULGENCE!!!
Teacher
Grace