english 12 poetic terms
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Lyric | short poem that expresses the private emotions or thoughts of the writer |
| Metrical poem | written in regular, repeating rhythms and may be rhymed or unrhymed |
| Ode | A poem expressing lofty emotion. celebrate an event, or are addressed to nature or to some admired person, place, thing |
| Pastoral | deals with an idealized war with shepherds and rustic life |
| sonnet | lyric poem fourteen lines long and usually iambic pentameter. Usually 3 quatrains and 1 couplet |
| Ballad | a narrative poem tells a story oftern in a straightforward and dramatic matter, and often about love, honour, and courage |
| Didactic | primary intention the teaching of some lesson or moral or the making of some critical statement about society |
| Elegy | Poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual |
| Epic | long poem that is often about a heroic character |
| Epitaph | an insciption on a tombstone or a short poem writtin in memory of someone who has died |
| Free verse | written in variable forms |
| Blank verse | written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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