Poetry.

Major Genres of Poetry:

# Narrative poetry: is a genre of poetry that tells a story.
# Epic poetry: recounts, in a continuous narrative, the life and works of a heroic or mythological
person.
# Dramatic poetry: is drama written in verse to be spoken or sung.
# Lyric poetry: does not attempt to tell a story but instead is of a more personal nature. Rather
than depicting characters and actions, it portrays the poet's own feelings, states of mind, and
perceptions.
# Elegy: is a mournful, melancholy or plaintive poem, especially a lament for the dead or a
funeral song.
# Prose poetry: is a hybrid genre that shows attributes of both prose and poetry.

Rhyme:
* syllabic: a rhyme in which the last syllable of each word sounds the same but does not
necessarily contain vowels. (pitter, patter)
* imperfect: a rhyme between a stressed and an unstressed syllable. (wing, caring)
* oblique (or slant): a rhyme with an imperfect match in sound. (green, fiend; one, thumb)
* assonance: matching vowels. (shake, hate)
* consonance: matching consonants. (rabies, robbers)
* alliteration: matching initial consonants. (short,ship)

Basic Forms of Poetry:

Free verse: a form of poetry which refrains from meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical
pattern. (UNSTRUCTURED)
End rhyme: a rhyme in the final syllable of a verse (the most common kind). (STRUCTURED)

Surgeons must be very careful

by Emily Dickinson

Surgeons must be very careful

When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit - Life!
Poetic Devices:
Allusion
A reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art, either
directly or by implication
End-stopped
A feature in poetry where the syntactic unit (phrase, clause, or sentence) corresponds in length
to the line.
Enjambment
The breaking of a syntactic unit (a phrase, clause, or sentence) by the end of a line or between
two verses.
Imagery
The use of expressive or evocative images in poetry, art, literature, or music.
Internal Rhyme
Also called middle rhyme, a rhyme occurring within the line.
Metaphor
A rhetorical trope defined as a direct comparison between two or more seemingly unrelated
subjects.
Rhyme Scheme
The pattern established by the arrangement of rhymes in a stanza or poem, generally described
by using letters of the alphabet to denote the recurrence of rhyming lines.
Rhythm
An essential of all poetry, the regular or progressive pattern of recurrent accents in the flow of
a poem the rise and fall of stresses on words in the metrical feet.
Symbol
A symbol is a graphical, written, vocal or physical object which represents another, usually
more complex, physical or abstract object, or an object property.
Syntax
The way in which linguistic elements (words and phrases) are arranged to form grammatical
structure.
Theme
The central idea, topic, or didactic quality of a work.
Tone
The poet's or persona's attitude in style or expression toward the subject. Tone can also refer to
the overall mood of the poem itself.