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    This document provides an overview of different types of poetry and literary forms. It discusses how reading literature can develop analytical skills as the reader must consider each part of the text. Poems express ideas in a more compact way than prose, using symbols, imagery and figurative language to leave more to the reader's imagination. Various poetic forms are described, including haiku, tanka, cinquain and diamante. Short stories are also discussed as being concise works that create a single effect or impression on the reader through elements like plot, character, setting and theme. Narrative poems incorporate the same elements as short stories.

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    This document provides an overview of different types of poetry and literary forms. It discusses how reading literature can develop analytical skills as the reader must consider each part of the text. Poems express ideas in a more compact way than prose, using symbols, imagery and figurative language to leave more to the reader's imagination. Various poetic forms are described, including haiku, tanka, cinquain and diamante. Short stories are also discussed as being concise works that create a single effect or impression on the reader through elements like plot, character, setting and theme. Narrative poems incorporate the same elements as short stories.

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    This document provides an overview of different types of poetry and literary forms. It discusses how reading literature can develop analytical skills as the reader must consider each part of the text. Poems express ideas in a more compact way than prose, using symbols, imagery and figurative language to leave more to the reader's imagination. Various poetic forms are described, including haiku, tanka, cinquain and diamante. Short stories are also discussed as being concise works that create a single effect or impression on the reader through elements like plot, character, setting and theme. Narrative poems incorporate the same elements as short stories.

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    Reading literary selections, poems,

    short stories, novels, plays, or essays, not


    only provide pleasure. The task also
    developed your analytical skills as you
    must consider each of the parts of the text
    separately before you can interpret the
    meaning of the entire work and eventually
    appreciate reading.


    Poems express idea in a tighter,
    more compact way that prose as they
    do not include details and
    explanations common to the short of
    the novel.
    . . . They are more concentrated,
    suggestive and rhythmical than prose
    as they resort to the use of symbols,
    figurative language, and imagery,
    which tend to leave more to a readers
    imagination rather than giving
    everything he needs to know.

    Allegory; Ballad
    Blank verse
    Burlesque
    Cacophony
    Canzone; Conceit
    Dactyl; Elegy
    Epic; Epitaph
    Free verse
    Haiku; Imagery
    Limerick
    Lyric; Name
    Narrative
    Ode; Pastoral
    Petrarchan sonnet
    Quatrain; Refrain
    Senryu
    Shakespearean
    sonnet
    Sonnet; Tanka
    Terza rima

    Latin word lyricus"
    meaning .

    Some of the best examples of lyric poetry
    come from Italian and English sonnets.
    In lyric poetry, the mood is musical and
    emotional. The writer of a lyric poem uses
    words that express his state of mind, his
    perceptions, or his feelings. expresses the
    observations and feeling of a single speaker.
    expresses the observations and
    feeling of a single speaker.
    Poems maybe in the form of
    , an unrhyme verse form,
    consisting of three lines.
    The first and third lines contain
    five syllables while the second line
    consists of seven syllables.


    Example of Haiku
    A Tanka is another verse form.
    It has thiirty-one syllables arranged
    in five lines
    (five,seven,five,seven,seven)

    Example:

    The angry wind blows
    The branches of tree move
    I shiver with fear.
    Then the sky groans and it cries
    Dreas seizes me and I swoon.



    A Cinquain is a poetic unrhyme
    form consisting of five lines. It
    comes in three formats:

    Pattern #1: Line 1: One word
    Line 2: Two words
    Line 3: Three words
    Line 4: Four words
    Line 5: One word


    Pattern #2: Line 1: A noun
    Line 2: Two adjectives
    Line 3: Three-ing words
    Line 4: A phrase
    Line 5: Another word for the noun

    Pattern #3: Line 1: Two syllables
    Line 2: Foure syllables
    Line 3: Six syllables
    Line 4: Eight Syllables
    Line 5: Two syllables

    A Diamante is a seven-line, diamond-
    shaped poem. It has the following formats:

    Line 1: a noun that contrast line 7
    Line 2: two adjectives that describe line 1
    Line 3: three action verbs that relate to line 1
    Line 4: four nouns, the first two relate to line
    1; the last two relate to line 7.
    Line 5: three action verbs that relate to line 7
    Line 6: two adjectives that describes line 7
    Line 7: a noun that contrasts the line 1


    Peace
    tranquil, placid
    musing, meditating,
    contemplating
    Serenity, calmness, gloom,
    death
    crying,suffering,writhing
    sorrowful,deflorable
    war

    (Aida Villanueva)
    Short stories are also literary type which
    you may find interesting as it deals with the
    fantastic or the unusual.

    You will also find in short stories
    elements such as :
    Plot
    Character
    Setting
    Point of view
    Theme.

    Like lyric poems, they are concise;
    hence they can be read in one sitting.
    They create a single effect, or dominant
    impression, on the reader. The events
    usually communicate an idea about life
    or human nature.


    Learning Outcomes

    Heighten awareness of three
    structure of literature selections
    Enhance appreciation of stylistic
    options
    Compare different interpretative
    strategies


    Narrative poems are the stories to which
    all the elements of a short stories are
    found.

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