Form Poetic Structure A particular organization of parts that makes a whole Examples the way words are arranged in a line lines are arranged in a stanza units of sound are organized to achieve rhythm and rhyme ID: 692928
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POETIC DEVICES
Form and Stylistic ElementsSlide2
Form (Poetic Structure)
A particular organization of parts that makes a whole
Examples
• the way words are arranged in a line
• lines are arranged in a stanza
• units of sound are organized to achieve rhythm and rhymeSlide3
Two categories of forms
Traditional
-follows certain fixed rules
Examples-sonnet, ballad, epic, ode etc.
Organic
(or irregular form) does not follow any
specific strict rules
Examples-free verseSlide4
Stylistic Elements
Quatrains,
or four-line stanzas, that echo the simple rhythms of church hymns
Example- Hope is a Thing with Feathers” by Emily Dickenson
"Hope
" is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at
allSlide5
Stylistic Elements
Slant Rhymes
, or
words that do not exactly rhyme
Example- “The
Soul Selects her own
Society” by Emily
Dickinson
The
Soul Selects her own Society Then shuts the Door On her divine majority Obtrude no moreSlide6
Stylistic Elements
Inventive punctuation and sentence structure
• Dashes- used to break up the rhythm and highlight important words; adds emphasis
• Irregular capitalization
Example
Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died”
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Stylistic Elements
I
nverted
syntax
--reversing the normal word order of a
sentence
Example Whose woods these are I think I know.
-Robert Frost
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Inverted Syntax
“Smart I am!”Slide9
More Poetic Devices
Cataloging
- frequent lists of people, things, and attributes
Example "Song
of Myself."
Walt Whitman
The pure
contralto
sings in the organ loft,
The carpenter dresses his plank, the tongue of his foreplane whistles its wild ascending lisp,The married and unmarried children ride home to their Thanksgiving dinner,The pilot seizes the king-pin, he heaves down with a strong arm,
The mate stands braced in the whale-boat, lance and harpoon are ready,
The duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches,Slide10
More Poetic Devices
Repetition
-repeated words or phrases at the beginning of two or more lines
Example
Beat! Beat! Drums!- blow! Bugles! Blow!Slide11
More Poetic Devices
Parallelism
-related ideas phrased in similar ways
Example:
“I
have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia
the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners
will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood
.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr.Slide12
Last but not least
Figurative Language!!!!!!