1 What Is Poetry and How Do We Read It? 2 TypesofPoetry Narrative Poetry / 18 Lyric Poetry / 26 Close Form and Open Form / 37 3 Diction, Tone and Theme Diction / 50 Tone / 66 Theme / 79 4 Structure 5 Rhythm and Rhyme Rhythm / 93 Meter / 99 Onomatopoeia / 116 Alliteration and Assonance / 121 Rhyme / 123 6 Allusion and Figures of Speech Allusion / 148 Symbol / 153 Simile and Metaphor/165 Personification / 177 Apostrophe / 179 Pun / 181 Understatement and Overstatement / 184 Metonymy and Synecdoche / 189 Irony and Satire / 191 Appendix: A List of Poetic Terms Index of the First Lines Bibliography
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