Sir Abdool | English A @Bushlot_Sec.

So you've made it to a higher level, congratulations. By now you will have done enough poetry to realize that that there are types of poems. Can you remember any of those types? Here's a handy reminder: There is one more type that is missing from here and that's the "Sonnet" type poems. English poets borrowed the sonnet form from the Italian poet Francesco Petrarch . Traditionally, it has fourteen lines of iambic pentameter linked by an intricate rhyme scheme . Iambic pentameter refers to its rhythm ; basically, each line of the poem has ten syllables , and every other syllable is stressed. The words I've put in bold in the paragraph above are important terms to understand in the field of poetry, and we will be covering them later in this lesson. Writing poetry is quite easy,  I can make one that's very... cheesy Rhyming words is little stress Count your syllables to be the best See? You can do that! In the picture above, they mention "Ballads...

  Assonance and Alliteration are two features of language that writers, especially poets, use.  They are meant to engage a reader’s auditory (i.e, listening) skills while also making the writing they are used in sound musical and fun to read. Assonance and Alliteration are mainly different in terms of what letter type is repeated and where.  Since poetry and prose use them heavily, they can be a little hard to distinguish to most people. What is Alliteration? Alliteration is a literary style that deals with the repetition of similar or identical consonant sounds. (All letters of the Alphabet, other than Vowels, are consonants) It makes a line fun to read and usually repeats the consonant sounds in a word, usually in the beginning those words, but may occur at any point. You may be familiar with this famous example of Alliteration from the old tongue-twister "Peter the piper".   E.g #1 - " P eter p iper p icked a p epper; p ut it in a p epper p ot", is the Guyanese ...