NAME: _____________________________________________

ACTIVITY NO. 1 (Third Grading) ENGLISH GRADE 8

POETRY - come from the Greek word “Poiesis” which means “a making: a forming, creating or
art of poetry/expression). The language of Feeling.
Poetics – the study of the aesthetic or art of poetry.

GENRES OF POETRY
______________1. The oldest poetry genre.
Tells a story
Example:
Homer’s Illiad and Oddysseys
______________2. It recounts a continuous narrative of heroic or mythological character.
Example:
Virgil’s Aenid, Indian: Gilgamish, Ramayana and Mahabharata
______________3. Verse to be spoken, sung and appears in varying forms
 Performed on stage
 Tragedy (Sad Ending)
 Comedy (Happy Ending)
Example:
William Shakespear’s Plays: Romeo and Juliet, Mid Summer Night, Macbeth,
Othello, Veronica, The Tempest
_______________4. Poetry with a punch of insult, spoken or written in prose.
Used by Romans for political purposes.
_______________5. Doesn’t attempt to tell a story.
Portrays feelings, states of mind or perceptions
Intended to be sung to express author’s own emotions
_______________6. Mournful, melancholy, plaintive poem.
Lament for the dead or funeral song or poem.
_______________7. Anthropomorphosized animals, plants inanimate objects or force of nature that
illustrates moral lessons
_______________8. Both prose and poetry
Concise, uses metaphor and special attention to language
_______________9. “Fantastic Poetry”, “Beyond reality”
Has weird and horrific themes and focus in revealing the truth but in a very imaginative
way

_______________10. Poetry used by a person or group of people to relax and help them relieve stress.

FORMS OF POETRY

________________1. Poem of 14 – iambic pentameter lines, usually follows

A-B-A-B rhyme pattern

________________2. Has 6 Stanza, Compromising 6 unrhymed lines,

Ends with 3 line stanza in which word on first stanza reappear in other stanzas
_______________3. Japanese Poem : 5-7-5-7-7 Pattern
_______________4. Japanese Poetry: 5-7-5 pattern and Most exponent is Matsuo Basho
_______________5. Korean Poem: Lyric Poetry, Written in 3 lines, each averaging 14-16 syllables for a total
of 44-46 syllables in all
_________________6. Poem used to appreciate a beauty of someone or something
Example
_____ to the West Wind
_____ to the Greecian Urn
_____ to the Pearl of Orient Seas

_________________7. A seven-line poem with a diamond shape

NAME: _____________________________________________

A poem or other form of writing written vertically, which each letter as a starting line
S - strong and brave, she will not be defeated
A - as time passes by, she will never cry
R - resilient and flexible, with her, everything is possible
A - again and again, I’ve fallen for
H - her
__________________8. FIVE- Line Pattern written either in 1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 1 or 2/3/4/8/2

ELEMENTS OF POETRY

__________________1. Meaning is taken from the dictionary

__________________2. Meaning is not taken in dictionary and is given based on once own understanding
__________________3. Involves words or phrases which appeals to 5 senses
Example: She smells like oranges and fresh bread.
She looks like someone who could be a cover of the magazine.
___________________4. Refers to dominant emotion or feeling conveyed in the poem
5. The way a poem looks like or the arrangement of lines
___________________6. French word which means “kind or type”
___________________7. Basic idea that the writer wants to convey
The purpose of the message of the poem
___________________8. The author’s attitude toward the work, the way the write looks at his subject.
___________________9. Words that create sound.
10. Words that are not used literally but suggest an image and creative comparison.
Turtle : Slow Storms : Temporary Problems

SOUND DEVICES
___________________1. Words that end with the same sounds.
___________________2. The beat of the poem
___________________3. The use of nearby words or stressed syllables beginning with the same consonant
letter
___________________4. Repetition of the same or similar vowel sounds, close to one another
___________________5. Words that sound like their meanings that imitate actual sounds
___________________6. Using letters for similar rhyme
The raindrops are of great beauty A
That keeps on sparkling everyday A
It doesn’t matter how cold it gets B
As long as you’re with me C
Everything will be okay A
____________________7. A Word or group of words applied to an object or action to imply a resemblance
____________________8. An animal or inanimate object is presented as having human attributes such as
human form, character, feelings, behavior or abilities

____________________9. A comparison of two unlike things and uses the words “like”, “as”

____________________10. A deliberate exaggeration or overstatement used for effect.

____________________11. Is a means of expression that suggests humorously or angrily, the opposite

meaning of what the words used normally mean.

____________________12. Combining contrary words usually for descriptive purposes