Poetry Flashcards
literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm
Poetry
derived from the Greek: poiesis, “making”/ “creating”
Poetry
The Greek word “poiesis” means?
making/creating
a type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)
Poetry
uses aesthetic and figurative language with rhythm to express ideas and feelings
Poetry
arrangement of lines, spacing, and whether or not the lines rhyme in some manner
Poetic Form
a group of words combined together in one line of the poem
Line
a division of a poem based on thought or form
Stanza
Stanzas based on form are shown by their?
Rhyme scheme
a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables and occurs when the stressed and unstressed syllables of the words in a poem are arranged in a repeating pattern
Meter
is the basic unit of measurement of accentual-syllabic meter and usually contains one stressed syllable and at least one unstressed syllable
Meter
In identifying the metrical structure, combine the _______________ and the ______________.
Metrical Pattern and the Metrical Line
words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds
Rhyme
the beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem
Rhythm
can be created by meter, rhyme, and the other sound devices
Rhythm
