Types of Poetry

Definitions and Examples:

- Narrative: a story being told

• Once upon a time, there was a boy who lived in a house.

- Ballds: a narrative poem of made of short stanzas and for singing

• "Give it up, you can't win. Cause I know where you've been. Such a shame you don't put up a fight. It's a game that we play at the end of the night. It's the same old story but you never get it right. Give it up." - Ariana Grande and Elizabeth Gillies

- Epic: a long poem about a hero

• Abraham Lincoln was a man with a beard. He was a man without fear. He freed slavery with all his bravery. 

- Lyric: the words to a song

• "Ain't nobody loves me better, makes me happy, makes me feel this way. Ain't nobody loves me better than you." - Jessica Lucas

- Sonnets: a poem of thoughts and ideas in 14 lines

• "FROM fairest creatures we desire increase,
  That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
  But as the riper should by time decease,
  His tender heir might bear his memory:
  But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,
  Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel,
  Making a famine where abundance lies,
  Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.
  Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament
  And only herald to the gaudy spring,
  Within thine own bud buriest thy content
  And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding.
  Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
  To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee." - William Shakespeare

- Odes: a poem written emotionally to someone

From "This...Is Life"

• "Ode to those who would place their family before their own ambitions. Ode, to the soul of our nation. Women. For if it is men, that our history, it is surely women, that are the soul. Ode, to the parents of this world who teach their children the values of life and living. Ode to the countless millions, who give of themselves and ask for nothing in return." - © Joe Fazio 

- Elegies: a mournful, plain poem sung at funerals

• "Looking at the skies, I seem to see a million eyes. Which ones are yours? Where are you now that yesterday has come and gone and closed it's doors? The night is so much darker. The wind is so much colder. The world I see is so much bigger now that I'm alone. Papa, please forgive me. Try to understand me. Papa, don't you know I had no choice?" - Barbara Streisand

Lines

Definition:
My definition of lines would be "a sentence or statement of words".

Example:
I read my lines in the script.

Significance of the Term:
It's important to know this word because the poets could read their poem in each line. And they'd know the part they were assigned.

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Symbol

Definition:
My definition of symbol would be "a picture or something that represents a thing or place."

Example:
The American Flag has
Colors that consists; red, white, and blue.
It represents where I came from.

Significance of the Term:
This word is important because symbols represent where you come from or possibly what your values are. It represents you.

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Onomatopoeia

Definition:
My definition of onomatopoeia would be "a word that makes the sound of something",

Example(s):
Vroooom, vroooom! (motorcycle)
Mooooo! (cow)
Ba-Ba-Ba-Bawk! (chicken)

Significance of the Term:
It's important to know this word because you can stretch the imagery in their head and also get a sense of what we're trying to say in our  poem.

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Assonance

Definition:
My definition of assonance would be "the same vowel sounds with different constants".

Example:
"Now I know, that I had to borrow
Beg & steal & lie aint' cheap
Trying to keep you, trying to please you
Cause being in love with your face ain't cheap."
- Cee-Lo Green

Significance of the Term:
It's important to know this word because we can use other words or find new words that rhyme with the vowel sounds.

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^ "Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep,
       And can't tell where to find them;
       Leave them alone, and they'll come home,
       And bring their tails behind them."

Alliteration

Definition:
My definition of alliteration would be "a line of words that have the same letter in the beginning".

Example:
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
- Mother Goose Rhymes

Significance of the Term:
It's important to know this word because it can help people speak the words and they can practice pronouncing them.

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Meter

Definition:
My definition of meter would be "the unit of beats divded in a poem or song."

Example:
"Cali Cali Cali California
I won't forget that night,

The palm trees swinging above

One touch and I knew it was California love."

- Alyssa Bernal

Significance of the Term:

It's important to know this word because every poem has some kind of beat to it or most of them do. It wouldn't sound so good if the poem didn't have a beat. 

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