Lang. Arts Poetry Terms

Terms	Definitions
Alliteration	The repetition of a beginning consonant sound
Allusion	A casual reference to someone or something in history or literature that creates a mental picture
Analogy	The comparison of two things by explaining one to show how it is similar to the other
Assonance	The repetition of vowel sounds
Ballad	A type of poem that tells a story and was originally meant to be sung or recited
Couplet	A rhymed pair of lines
Haiku	A form of Japanese poetry in which 17 syllables are arranged in three lines of 5,7, and 5 syllables
Hyperbole	Extreme exaggeration for effect
Limerick	A five line poem written with one couplet and one triplet
Metaphor	The comparison of two unlike things by saying one is the other
Onomatopoeia	The sound a thing makes
Oxymoron	The use of contradictory terms together
Personification	The giving of human traits to non-human things incapable of having those traits
Rhythm	A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
Repetition	A technique in which a sound, word, phrase, or line is repeated for emphasis or unity
Rhyme	The repetition of sounds at the end of words
Rhyme scheme	A pattern of end rhymes in a poem
Simile	The comparison of two unlike things by saying one is like or as the other
Symbol	Something that represents something other than itself
Elegy	A poem of lament
Free verse	A poem without either rhyme or rhyme scheme
Blank verse	Unrhymed lines with ten syllables each
Imagery	The use of words to create a mental picture
Mood	The emotional effect of a poem or story

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