Poetry Terms
Alliteration: The commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter, as in an artful application.
Analogy: A similarity between like features of two things on which a comparison amy be based.
Assonance: resemblance of sounds also called vowel rhyme
Consonance: Correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds
Ballad: A simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing
Blank Verse: Unrhymed verse, most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verses
Figurative Language: writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning
Free Verse: Unrhymed verse without a metrical pattern
Haiku: A major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5,7, and 5 syllables
Imagery: The formation of mental images figures or likeness of the things or such images collectively
Lyric Poem: a short poem of song-like quality
Narrative Poem: A poem that tells a story and has a plot
Ode: a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of excited or enthusiastic emotion.
Rhyme: identity in sound of some part, especially the end of words or lines of a verse
Rhythm: movement or procedure with patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or a line
Shakespearean Sonnet: A sonnet form used by Shakespeare having the rhyme abab, cdcd, efef, gg
Pectrachan Sonnet: Original Italian sonnet form in which the sonnets rhyme scheme divides the poems in 14 lines into two parts octet and sextet
Analogy: A similarity between like features of two things on which a comparison amy be based.
Assonance: resemblance of sounds also called vowel rhyme
Consonance: Correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds
Ballad: A simple narrative poem of folk origin, composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing
Blank Verse: Unrhymed verse, most frequently used in English dramatic, epic, and reflective verses
Figurative Language: writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning
Free Verse: Unrhymed verse without a metrical pattern
Haiku: A major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5,7, and 5 syllables
Imagery: The formation of mental images figures or likeness of the things or such images collectively
Lyric Poem: a short poem of song-like quality
Narrative Poem: A poem that tells a story and has a plot
Ode: a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of excited or enthusiastic emotion.
Rhyme: identity in sound of some part, especially the end of words or lines of a verse
Rhythm: movement or procedure with patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or a line
Shakespearean Sonnet: A sonnet form used by Shakespeare having the rhyme abab, cdcd, efef, gg
Pectrachan Sonnet: Original Italian sonnet form in which the sonnets rhyme scheme divides the poems in 14 lines into two parts octet and sextet
