Definitions
Literary features
Specific techniques that allow a writer to convey a deeper meaning that goes beyond what's on the page
Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words.
Rhyme
Can both rhyme or not, it can have as many lines or stanzas as the poet wants.
Free verse
The Waste Land
T.S.Eliot
Rising up, back on the street
Did my time, took my chances
Went the distance, now I'm back on my feet
Just a man and his will to survive
Eye of the tiger
Literary forms
the organization, arrangement, or framework of a literary work
Places two or more dissimilar characters, themes, concepts, etc. side by side, and the profound contrast highlights their differences.
Juxtaposition
A pair of successive lines of verse, typically rhyming and of the same length
Couplet
Hope is the thing with feathers
Emily Dickinson
Once I ran to you (I ran)
Now I run from you
This tainted love you've given
I give you all a boy could give you
Take my tears and that's not nearly all
Tainted love
Metaphors.
A figure of speech denoting one kind of idea or object in its place.
Literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow
Stream of consciousness
In three lines, the first and third lines have five syllables, while the second has seven
Haiku
In a station of the metro
Ezra Pound
You better run, you better do what you can
Don't wanna see no blood, don't be a macho man
You wanna be tough, better do what you can
So beat it, but you wanna be bad
Beat it
Symbolism
The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
An author focuses on the belief that human beings exist in a purposeless and chaotic universe.
Absurdism
They have a set rhyme scheme of AABBA, with lines one, two and five being longer in length than lines three and four.
Limerick
And still I rise
Maya Angelou
Clock strikes upon the hour
And the sun begins to fade
Still enough time to figure out
How to chase my blues away
I've done alright up to now
It's the light of day that shows me how
And when the night falls, loneliness calls
I wanna dance with somebody
Individualism
The habit or principle of being independent and self-reliant
The intent is conveyed by graphic patterns of letters, words, or symbols rather than by the meaning of words in a conventional arrangement.
Concrete poetry
Comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains a pause near the middle. The first half of the line contains six to nine syllables; the second half should contain no fewer than five.
Sijo
To Autumn
John Keats
You must understand, though the touch of your hand
Makes my pulse react
That it's only the thrill of boy meeting girl
Opposites attract
Whats love got to do with it