POETRY
By : RUKHSANA BALOCH
CONTENTS
• What is poetry ?
• Elements of poetry .
• Figurative speech .
• Rhyming pattern .
WHAT IS POETRY ?
• Poetry is a written expression of feelings and
ideas in and imaginative style with a rhythm.
• Poetry allows people to express their thoughts
and feelings in a creative way .
ELEMENTS OF POETRY
• Understanding poetry , here are some elements of
poetry .
→ lines/ verses
→ Stanza
→ Rhyme
→ free verse
LINES OR VERSES
• Poetry contain lines or verse .
• The length of a line may be measured in two ways
→The no: of syllables or
→ The no: of meters/foot .
Example : Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree .
STANZA
• Stanza can be defined as the number of lines present in it .
• There are several types of Stanza ;
• Couplet → ( 2 lines )
• Trecet → ( 3 lines )
• Quatrain → ( 4 lines )
• Quantain → ( 5 lines )
• Sestet → ( 6 lines )
• septet → ( 7 lines )
• Octave → ( 8 lines )
RHYME
• It is the same sound at the end of poetic
lines .
Example : Twinkle twinkle little star
How , I wonder what you are
FREE VERSE
• Free verse is a verse /Stanza / poem that doesn’
rhyme .
Example : Music when soft voice die ,
vibrates in the memory
TYPES OF POEMS
• There are many types of poems such as,
→ Lyric
→ Sonnet
→ Elegy
→ Ode
→ Epic
LYRIC
• A short poem is known as lyric
Example :
Twinkle twinkle little star .
SONNET
• A sonnet is a 14- line poem , divided into two pa
is octave and 2nd is sestet ) .
• Example : ozymendias .
ELEGY
• Elegy is a poem that express sorrow over death o
one .
Example : Rose leaves , when the rose is dead
ODE
• Ode is a poem on the form of am address comm
glorifying an individual .
EPIC
• Epic is a long narrative poem in the form an addr
commonly glorifying an individual .
FIGURATIVE SPEECH
• Poets uses figurative speech in order to enhance the meanin
→ Simile
→ Metaphor
→ Personification
→ Hyperbole
→ Onometopoeia
→ Irony
→ Imagery
SIMILE
• Simile is a forest comparison between thing usu
word like or as.
Example : She looks like princess flavia .
METAPHOR
• Metaphor is an indirect comparison between th
like or as .
Example : she is princess flavia .
PERSONIFICATION
• It's gives the qualities of a human to an animal or
Example : oh wow! See this handsome tree .
HYPERBOLE
• It is an exaggerated statement .
Example : He said that he climbs from the
mountain and flung to the city .
ALLITERATION
• It is the repeated sounds as the beginning of the w
Example : Twinkle twinkle little star .
ONOMETOPOEIA
• It is the use of words that mimic sounds .
Example : plitter platter , splish splash .
OXYMORON
• It is the contradictory words used together .
Example : He is the wisest fool of them all .
IRONY
• It is the situation that means quite opposite wha
apparently said .
Example : There is a post on twitter complaining
useless twitter is .
Imagery
• It is used in poem for growing imagination .
Example : westminster bridge
Rhyming pattern
• The rhyming pattern is as follows in the example
Example : oft i heard lucy gray ,
And when I crossed the wild ,
I chanced to see at break of day
A solitary child ..
The rhyming pattern is AC , BD .
THAKNS
ANY QUESTION
