Poetry and Prose Elements
If you are feeling a certain mood about a text, it surely is because of the author's this
Tone
A common stylistic element in poetry. An example would be:
The things I love to eat are green /
I ate a frog, it kicked my spleen!
The most common/famous form of poetry. Popular ones are Italian or English types
Sonnets
Shakespeare's most famous sonnet. The speaker talks about how his love is better than a part of a season
Sonnet 18 - Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day
This element of style is captured by concrete details referring to the five senses
Imagery
Dogs are out! Count the feet and you'll find out what type of this stylistic element the poet has chosen
Meter
Dylan Thomas's famous poem, which we studied, is this form
Villanelle
The speaker of this poem has some major trust issues going on
Promises Like Pie-Crust
There are many elements that can be considered figurative language including personification. What is the definition of personification?
Giving human characteristics to a non-human thing
Poetic Syntax mostly deals with these two elements
Enjambment and Caesura
A contemplative poem, usually for someone who has died
Elegy
This poem could be about the death of Diego Ultreras
To An Athlete Dying Young
We studied diction in To An Athlete Dying Young. Specifically, we looked at the multiple denotations of this word, that Housman used to create a paradoxical statement
Laurel...Smart lad!
You can tell a lot about the meaning of the poem by figuring out if it has traditional or conventional this
Form
A short poem expressing personal thoughts or feelings of a first-person speaker
Lyric
Name all three Harry Baker poems from his TED Talk
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-Paper People
-The Sunshine Kid
In syntax, if a sentence is not cumulative (beginning with an independent clause and followed by a subordinate clause), then it is this
Periodic (beginning with a subordinate clause that builds towards the main clause)
This element that refers to the musical quality of poetry can be created through rhyme, alliteration, and many other techniques.
Sound
This occurs in the last line of a Haiku, or in the third quatrain of an English Sonnet
The turn