Poetry Terms Part Three
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22 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 narrative poetry | poems that tell stories, such as ballads, epics, dramatic monologues, etc. |
| open form poetry | poetry that adheres to a form, such as (heroic) couplets, but can be any length |
| ode | long, dignified, deliberative poem devoted to a single subject |
| onomatopoeia | words whose sound mimics their meaning |
| paradox | an assertion concerning two elements that appear to be incompatible or contradictory |
| paraphrase | restatement of an idea |
| pastoral | a poem about shepherds and the rustic life |
| personification | when concepts, emotions, or inanimate objects are treated as intelligent beings |
| pun | a play on words for rhetorical or humorous effect |
| refrain | one or more lines repeated at regular intervals at the end of stanzas or sections of a poem |
| rhyme | a repetition of sounds in two or more words |
| rhythm | the regular recurrence of strong and weak elements |
| scansion | any method to analyze the rhythm of poetry by distinguishing metrical units |
| simile | a comparison of two unlike things using like or as |
| sonnet | A fourteen line poem that is written in iambic pentameter that has two major forms- Shakespearean and Petrarchan |
| Shakespearean sonnet | also called English sonnet, has three quatrains of varying rhyme scheme and an ending couplet |
| Petrarchan sonnet | has two sections- one eight lines and another six, has different rhyme schemes in each |
| stanza | a repeated grouping of lines as verse paragraphs |
| symbol | any physical object that represents something greater (a phenomenon, country, etc.) |
| synecdoche | a poetic device that identifies an object by a referring to a part of it |
| theme | the topic of discussion or idea that a poem tries to argue, illustrate, or suggest |
| tone | an author's attitude toward the subject, usually determined by how the work is written |
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