Poetry Terms! -.-
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emilyrburleson on April 11, 2012
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Especially for CRHS English 1 PreAP-GT poetry unit
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Poet | The author of the poem |
| Speaker | the "narrator" of the poem |
| Form | the appearence of the words on the page |
| Line | a group of words together on one line of the poem |
| Stanza | a group of lines arranged together (poem paragraph) |
| Couplet | two line stanza |
| Quatrain | four line stanza |
| Sestet (Sextet) | six line stanza |
| Rhythm | the beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem |
| Meter | a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables arranged in a repeating pattern |
| Feet | units of meter; can have two or three syllables |
| Iambic | unstressed, stressed |
| Trochaic | stressed, unstressed |
| Anapestic | unstressed, unstressed, stressed |
| Dactylic | stressed, unstressed, unstressed |
| Monometer | one foot on a line |
| Dimeter | two feet on a line |
| Trimeter | three feet on a line |
| Free verse | poetry with no repeating patterns of stressed or unstressed syllables;it has no rhyme and is a form of modern poetry |
| Blank verse | poetry written in lines of iambic pentameter that does NOT end in rhyme |
| Rhyme | words that sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds |
| Internal rhyme | a word in a line rhymes with another word on that same line |
| Rhyme scheme | the pattern of the rhymes (usually end rhyme) |
| Onomotopoeia | words that imitate the sound they are naming |
| Alliteration | consonant sounds repeated at the beginning of words (Annie ate anonymous apples) |
| Consonance | similar to alliteration, but repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere |
| Assonance | repeated vowel sounds in a line or lines of poetry |
| Refrain | a sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem |
| Lyric | a short poem (usually written in first person POV) that expresses an emotion or an idea or describes a scene |
| Haiku | a Japanese poem written in three lines |
| Cinquain | a five line poem containing 22 syllables |
| Shakespearean Sonnet | a fourteen-line poem with a specific rhyme scheme (abab cdcd efef gg) |
| Narrative | a poem that tells a story |
| Concrete | words are arranged to create a picture that relates to the content of the poem |
| The sexiest man in the universe | Niall Horan |
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