Poetry Terms
Alliteration - The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words in stressed syllables.
Analogy - A similarity between like features of two things on which a comparison may be based on.
Assonance - Resemblance of a sound
Consonance - The repetition of consonants or of a consonant pattern
Ballad - A poem that tells a story and is meant to be sung or recited
Blank Verse - Is unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter
Figurative Language - Its language that communicates ideas beyond the ordinary, literal meanings of the words
Free Verse - Poetry that does not contain a regular pattern of rhyme and meter
Haiku - an unrhymed verse form of Japanese origin having 3 lines contain five or seven syllables
Imagery- descriptive words and phrases hat re-create sensory experiences for the reader
Lyric Poem - a short poem in which a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings
Narrative Poem - tells a story
Ode - A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanzaic structure
Rhyme - the occurrence of a similar or identical sound at the ends of two or more words
Rhythm - the pattern or flow of sound created by an arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables
Shakespearean Sonnet - consists of three quatrains or four line and a final couplet
Petrarchan Sonnet - A sonnet containing an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and a sestet following any of various patterns such as cdecde or cdcdcd. Also called the Italian Sonnet
Analogy - A similarity between like features of two things on which a comparison may be based on.
Assonance - Resemblance of a sound
Consonance - The repetition of consonants or of a consonant pattern
Ballad - A poem that tells a story and is meant to be sung or recited
Blank Verse - Is unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter
Figurative Language - Its language that communicates ideas beyond the ordinary, literal meanings of the words
Free Verse - Poetry that does not contain a regular pattern of rhyme and meter
Haiku - an unrhymed verse form of Japanese origin having 3 lines contain five or seven syllables
Imagery- descriptive words and phrases hat re-create sensory experiences for the reader
Lyric Poem - a short poem in which a single speaker expresses personal thoughts and feelings
Narrative Poem - tells a story
Ode - A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanzaic structure
Rhyme - the occurrence of a similar or identical sound at the ends of two or more words
Rhythm - the pattern or flow of sound created by an arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables
Shakespearean Sonnet - consists of three quatrains or four line and a final couplet
Petrarchan Sonnet - A sonnet containing an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and a sestet following any of various patterns such as cdecde or cdcdcd. Also called the Italian Sonnet