Poetry Terms;
Alliteration: The commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with the same consonant sound or sound group.
Analogy: A similarity between like features of two things.
Assonance: Resemblance of sounds.
Consonance: Correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds.
Ballad: A simple narrative poem of folk origin composed in short stanzas and adopted for singing.
Blank Verse: unrhymed verse.
Figurative Language: speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech.
Free Verse: Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.
Haiku: A major from 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 things, or of such images.
Lyric Poem: A poem that tells a story 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 exhault or enthusiastic emotion.
Rhyme: Identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
Rhythm: Movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat.
Shakespearean Sonnet: A sonnet form used by shakespeare and having the rhyme scheme ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG.
Petrarchan Sonnet: A sonnet form popularized by pertrarch, consisting, of an octave with the rhyme scheme ABBAABBA and a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes as CDCCDC, or CDCDCD.
Analogy: A similarity between like features of two things.
Assonance: Resemblance of sounds.
Consonance: Correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds.
Ballad: A simple narrative poem of folk origin composed in short stanzas and adopted for singing.
Blank Verse: unrhymed verse.
Figurative Language: speech or writing that departs from literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect or meaning, speech or writing employing figures of speech.
Free Verse: Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.
Haiku: A major from 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 things, or of such images.
Lyric Poem: A poem that tells a story 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 exhault or enthusiastic emotion.
Rhyme: Identity in sound of some part, especially the end, of words or lines of verse.
Rhythm: Movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat.
Shakespearean Sonnet: A sonnet form used by shakespeare and having the rhyme scheme ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG.
Petrarchan Sonnet: A sonnet form popularized by pertrarch, consisting, of an octave with the rhyme scheme ABBAABBA and a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes as CDCCDC, or CDCDCD.
