Poetry Terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 narrative poetry | a type of poetry that tells a story |
| dramatic poetry | a type of poetry that utilizes that techniques of drama; the speaker is clearly someone other than the poet |
| lyric poetry | a type of poem with highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker |
| ballad | a poem that tells a story, often of a single historical or legendary person; often one dealing with love and romance |
| haiku | a three-lined Japanse verse form. THe first and third lines have five syllables. The second has seven syllables. Seeks to convey a single vivid emotion by means of images from nature |
| speaker | characters with their own points of view - their own attitudes, backgrounds, and ways of looking at reality. Their thoughts and feelings may be similar to the author or they may be utterly different |
| dramatic monologue | a poem or speech in which a fictional character expresses his or her thoughts and feelings within a developing situation |
| consonance | the repetition in two or more words of the final consonants in stressed syllables |
| assonance | the repition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants in two or more stressed syllables |
| alliteration | the repetition of the initial consonants sounds usually at the start of words |
| onomatopoeia | the use of words to imitate sounds or suggest a sound |
| symbol | something that has its own meaning but that stands for or represents something else |
| theme | a central message or insight into life |
| inference | to draw a conclusion about something; an educated guess |
| mood | the feeling created in the reader when reading a poem |
| imagery | descriptive language used to create word pictures |
| tone | the writer's attitude toward his/her audience or subject |
| figurative language | writing or speed not meant to be interpreted literally |
| metaphor | a figure of speech comparing one thing to another without using like or as |
| extended metaphor | a subject is spoken or written of as though it were something else. Several comparisons are made. |
| simile | a figure of speech where like or as are used to make a comparison between two umlike ideas |
| personification | a type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human charateristics |
| sensory words | writing or speech that appeals to one or more of the 5 senses |
| sonnet | a fourteen-line lyric poem; 3 quatrains and a couplet; usually rhyming |
| shakespearean sonnet | consists of 3 quatrains and a couplet; a 14-lined, usually written in rhymed iampic pentameter |
| repetition | the use of a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence more than once |
| quatrain | a stanza or poem made up of four lines with rhythm and rhyme |
| rhyme scheme | the regular pattern of rhyming words ina poem; indicated by using different letters for each new rhyme |
| rhyme | the repetition of sounds at the end of words |
| end rhyme | when the rhyming words come at the ends of lines |
| internal rhyme | rhyming words appear in the same line in a poem |
| couplet | a pair of rhyming lines, usually in the same length and meter |
| meter | the pattern of accented and unaccented syllables that form that basis of the oem's rhythm |
| iamb | one unstressed and one stressed syllable in a 5-foot-line |
| blank verse | poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| free verse | verse without a regular arrangement of accented and unaccented syllables |
| rhythm | the arrangement, or pattern, of accented and unaccented syllables- the "beat" |
| structure | described in terms of stanze, form, and meter |
| stanza | a group of lines in a poem, considered a unit. Often separated by spaces in a poem |
| allusion | a reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art |
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