Poetry

focus?

Emily Dickinson: A word is dead

The language of poetry

What's Prosody

assonance? consonance?

Repetition

Versification: rhythm, metre and rhyme

What?
What do they create?

10 syllables

unstressed - stressed syllable

Imagery: figurative and metaphorical language use

eg. You are a treasure (German)

nonsense poetry rule

stressed - unstressed syllable

Focus on poetic form:
the sonnet

origins?
form?

Shakespearian Sonnet Rhyme schema

Focus on prose form:
the short story

history of the short story?

short stories:

Epiphany

A nanostory