Poetry Tips & Advice

This week on From A Writers POV, one of our groups hosted Poetry Week Workshop. This week we learned about different types of poetry and gave tips. So to recap what we learned, here is a little info on poetry and the different types of poetry.



Different Types of Poems



Narrartive Poem

Personal Poem

Address Poem

List Poem

Acrostic Poem



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Words that are considered redundant



absolutely certain

just exactly

revert back

enter into

actual fact

forward progress

baby kitten

sum total



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Stanza: a group of lines gathered together as a unit, like a paragraph in prose

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Epigraph: A quotation preceeding a book, chapter or poem, often intended to evoke something of it's theme or atmosphere.

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Margins: Keep righthand and lefthand margins roughly the same width. Exception: If a great deal of editing is expected, the lefthand margin should be roomy enough to accomodate this work.

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View a list of words used incorrectly

accept

except

advice

advise

brake

break

capital

capitol

compare

constrast

flair

flare

hail

hale

lay

lie

whose

who's

your

you're



View some of the members poems and get more tips and advice on poetry: http://fromawriterspov.ning.com/group/thepovwritersworkshop



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Dominique Watson