Poetry

Question 1

Sonnet

Answer 1

14 lines
Top Octave 8 lines 4 lines
Sestet last 6 lines last 2 lines memorable summary

Question 2

Why bother to Rhyme?

Answer 2

• Flow - Oral art form, sound is important
• Memory - Stays with you
• Association - Meant to be paired, connected together, words or meaning of the words. Connectivites, ideas that are meant to go.

Question 3

3 Kinds of Rhyme

Answer 3

End
- Last syllables rhyme with last syllable of the next line
- Rhyme is based on the SOUND not on the spelling
Internal
- Rhyme sound in the middle of a line matches with the sound at the end of the line (same or another line) or rhyme sound in the middle matches with another rhyme in another line
Near (half)
- Sort of a rhyme, close to rhyming
- Almost but do not actually rhyme

Question 4

3 Parts to Meter

Answer 4

Foot
Line
Stanza

Question 5

Foot

Answer 5

The smallest/base unit of meter
1 criterion - at least one strong syllable
No vowel no syllable

Question 6

Strong Versus Weak Syllables

Answer 6

- Hold on strong syllables 
	Today 	strong
- Inflect (punch) the strong syllables 
	Today 	digging into the strong
- Little one syllable words
Most little words are usually weak
Example - Articles (a, the), conjunctions (and, but), many prepositions (in, on, at)
- Polysyllabic words
The roots are strong
Prefixes and suffixes are usually (almost always) weak
Examples 	un   break   able	(weak, strong, weak)
		un   able		(weak, strong)
		de   fame		(weak, strong)
- Focus on middle and end of lines

Question 7

Naming of Feet

Answer 7

Name of the foot. Number of feet in a line. = Meter

Example - Iambic Pentameter = 10 syllables

Question 8

Stanza

Answer 8

• Poetic paragraph. Group of lines that have one overall idea. Spaces. Rhyme scheme.
• Don’t need stanza for meter, need it to understand the poem
• Grouping of lines which usually communicate one key element of meaning (One unifying thought) (Important for unifying the idea)
• Separate from line theme
• Shifts in sections

Question 9

Verse

Answer 9

Musical
Figurative language that fits
Stylized - Use of figurative pattern

Question 10

Prose

Answer 10

Standard straight forward writing

Example - manual, novel, textbook

Question 11

3 Pillars of Poetry

Answer 11

1. Meaning - (not the same as what it is about, example 2 love or death stories/poems can have different meanings but be about the same subject matter)
   - Subject matter
   - Author’s attitude (connotative language)
   - Occasion - “setting” situation of poem (Situation in poet’s life)
2. Literary Devices which aid Meaning:
   - Imagery, allusion, tone, figurative language (metaphor, simile, personification, allegory, symbol, paradox, irony, hyperbole/overstatement, understatement), analogy
3. Musical Devices which aid meaning: (sound devices)
   - Repetition, alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyme (end, internal and near), rhythm and meter

Question 12

2 forms of poetry

Answer 12

Closed - has rules that have to be followed, conventions

Open - very few if any rules and conventions, relaxed rules

Question 13

3 Types of Poetry

Answer 13

1. Lyric(al)
   - Expresses a strong emotion and/or discusses an experience
   - Example: sonnet, ode, elegy
   - Sonnet - Cadillac
   - Od - Tribute poem, quasi love poem
   - Elegy - Poetic eulogy
2. Didactic
   - Teaches a lesson or offers a moral
   - No specific forms that fit with didactic poem
3. Narrative
   - Tells a story
   - 2 major forms
   - Ballad - songs that tell a story, folk and country music
   - Epic - really long story