Understanding Poetry: Types, Elements, and Forms, Cheat Sheet of Literature

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WHAT IS

POETRY?

LESSON 4:

POETRY

• expresses its idea in stanzas.

> LYRIC POETRY

• a musically inclined

and that speaks on emotions.

> NARRATIVE POETRY

• used to tell a story.

ELEMENTS OF POETRY

1.) SPEAKER

• the narrative voice of the poem.

3.) THEME

• main idea or an

underlying meaning of a

literary work.

4.) TONE

• the writer’s attitude

toward the subject or audience.

6.) RHYME

• a repetition of similar sounding words occurring at the end of lines.

7.) STANZAS

• a division of four or more lines having a fixed rhyming scheme.

8.) IMAGERY

• uses its 5 senses to point a picture on image in the reader’s mind.

9.) DICTION

• a word choice and use of words in speech or writing.

FORMS OF POETRY

1.) HAIKU

• a Japanese poem written in three lines
• ( 5 - 7 - 5 ) syllables
• focusing on images from nature