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2. Agenda 9/3/14
• Please place your homework in the Alpha folder on
the front desk.
• Introduction to Poetry
• Review of Bless Me Ultima questions from Chapters
1-3.
• For Monday:
• Quiz on BMU Ch. 1-3

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17. Narrative
• Tells a story
• Usually has a beginning, middle, climax, and
conclusion.
• Direct and narrated speech can be used
• Often composed to record historical, political, and
family events
• Passed down from generation to generation

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19. Ballad
• Oldest form of narrative verse
• At one stage it was sung
• Subject matter:
• Love, death, war, bravery, adventure, action
• Rhythm has strong beat
• Today – songwriters

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21. Epic
• An epic (from the ancient Greek adjective Epikos.
• Word, story, poem
• Long narrative poem telling the story of an historical
figure or event
• Has been referred to as a “novel in verse”

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23. Allegory
• Appears in the form of an extended metaphor
• Metaphor = a word or phrase for one thing that is
used to refer to another thing in order to show or
suggest that they are similar
• “He was drowning in paperwork” is a metaphor in
which having to deal with a lot of paperwork is being
compared to drowning in an ocean of water.

24. Allegory
• It conveys a veiled moral meaning
• It can be either in prose or verse
• The Wizard of Oz was originally an allegory

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26. Lyric Form
• The lyric is a poem with a musical or song-like quality
• The lyric conveys the personal thoughts of the poet
• It is favored by romantic poets like Wordsworth.

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28. Ode
• A formal tribute in phrase of something, someone,
or an event.
• It describes the personal feelings of the poet.
• It was originally sung as accompaniment to a Greek
dance.

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30. Dramatic Monologue
• Spoken in the First Person (“I”)
• The speaker addresses an invisible recipient
• From his/her words we learn more about the
speaker.

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32. Stanzas
• Division of poem: a number of lines of verse
forming a separate unit within a poem.
• Look at the layout of “I am Who I am” poem.

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38. Raquel Senties
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw7y-o6ogeE

39. “I am Who I Am, So What?”
by Raquel Senties
• Any idea where this poem takes place? The setting?
• What is the mood of the poem?
• How is the poem lined out? Stanzas, lines
• Does the poem rhyme?

40. “I Am Who I Am, So What?”
• Is the message of the poem explicit (obvious) or
implicit (implied)?
• Does it describe the author’s feelings?
• What is the poet’s attitude towards the reader?
• What is the attitude towards the subject?
• Are any tone words used?