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Poetry Definitions

This document defines and provides examples of various poetic devices and forms. It discusses onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyme schemes, feet, meter, common poetic meters like iambic and trochaic, and gives examples of their use in well-known poems. It also covers figures of speech, forms like ballads and sonnets, and attached a additional notebook on sonnets.

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Poetry Definitions

This document defines and provides examples of various poetic devices and forms. It discusses onomatopoeia, alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyme schemes, feet, meter, common poetic meters like iambic and trochaic, and gives examples of their use in well-known poems. It also covers figures of speech, forms like ballads and sonnets, and attached a additional notebook on sonnets.

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Poetry definitions.

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Onomatopoeia

Alliteration

Assonance Consonance

True rhyme

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Half or slant rhyme

Eye Rhyme

Syllable
Internal Rhyme­Between

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Foot

Mono Tetra
Di Penta
Tri

Meter

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Trochaic/
trochee Spondaic/
spondee

Anapestic
Iambic/
iamb
Dactylic

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Iamb in Literature

Romeo and Juliet (By William Shakespeare)

“But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?


It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief …”

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Trochee

“Tell me not, in mournful numbers”


(Psalm of Life, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

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Anapest in Literature

‘Twas the Night before Christmas (By Clement Clarke


Moore)

” ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the


house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care…
While visions of sugar plums danced in their heads…
had just settled our brains for a long winter‘s nap…
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky…
with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.”

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Dactyl in Literature
The Charge of the Light Brigade (By Alfred Lord
Tennyson)

“Half a league, half a league,


Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
‘Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!’ he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.”

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Spondee

“White founts falling in the Courts of the sun”


(Lepanto, by G. K. Chesterton)

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Simile Personification

Hyperbole
Metaphor
Symbol
Allusion

Irony

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Allegory
Paradox

Oxymoron
Imagery

Apostrophe

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Ballad Haiku
Lyric

Narrative/Epic Poem
Sonnet
Free Verse

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Petrachian/Italian

Shakespearean/English

Spenserian

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Attachments

Sonnets.notebook

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