Other than picking up a fairly horrible accent today, we looked at syllables, stressing, and feet (out of AP Lit context, that would be a questionable combination). Using your handout, we dissected the phrases and types of feet. And if syllables are not in your ethos house yet, just keep trying to identify what is stressed and what is not in lines. Moving onto our poetry packet, we looked at the terms for lines such as tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, and all the other meters; the stanza types such as couplet, quatrains, sestets, octaves, and everything in between; the rhyming styles such as masculine, feminine, and internal; and how math functions in determining the totals of syllables in class.
More fun in the poetry packet with the ballad, our first type of poetry. The ballad, as indicated in the packet, is a song-like poem with refrains, rhyme schemes, characters, and simplicity. With the statements at the end of the poem, we were able to break down the literary elements and structure.
For homework, have the ballad, lyric, and ode sections completed. For each poetry type, we will be looking at more poems than in the packet - just to make sure you can transfer all the characteristics from our sample to other poems.
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